As defined by the Cambridge dictionary, the word ‘clothes’ means ‘things such as dresses and trousers that you weave to cover, protect, or decorate your body.’ Clothes are one of the first things humans made. From the cave-dwellers using animal skins to wrap up to the Romans using sheets to drape royal shapes onto themselves, clothes have always been as much about expression as warmth. Expressing what we think, through slogan t shirts, what we love, through concert merch, and what we do, through work uniforms. From earliest times, the Middle Ages, Georgians, Victorians, the second world war and society today, I will discuss to what extent wealth is reflected in the clothes we wear.

Over May half term, I had the chance to ask Dr Galliano-Doig a few questions about pride and entrepreneurship. After training as a journalist at the London College of Printing, Dr Joseph Galliano-Doig co-founded the first and only LGBTQ+ history and culture museum in the UK, Queer Britain, in 2018. The museum then opened its doors in May 2022 and has since seen over 100,000 visitors, and Dr Galliano-Doig was awarded an MBE for his work in ‘heritage and diversity’!

Since January 2026, it has seemed as though society has been embracing a lifestyle reminiscent of a decade ago. 2016 was a time of party music, such as Bieber’s ‘sorry’ and Beyonce’s album’ lemonade’, glitter, slime, dabbing, ‘Tumblr girl aesthetic’ and memes such as The Mannequin Challenge. Creativity and originality were blossoming and ‘doom scrolling’ was nonexistent.

We’ve all been there: a five-minute break in between a double lesson when you’ve already filled up your water bottle and been to the toilet, wondering what you can do to fill the time. Then the guardian angel-shaped Wordle logo pops out at you, saving you from what would otherwise be a life-ending few minutes of boredom.

In Norway, it wouldn’t be unusual to observe a family’s weeknight dinner and notice one parent ask a question in Swedish, the other reply in Norwegian, while the children bicker in a local Norwegian dialect. There is no translation needed and only a few misunderstandings. But just how does it work exactly and why is it so common?