Gaby Mahlberg
I'm a historian and journalist with an interest in early modern British and European history, the history of political thought and discourse, cultural history, utopianism and literature. And of course I'm a news junkie!
Categories used most frequently by the blogger:
History Academia Early Modern Seventeenth Century Comment Reviews Political Thought Republicanism Politics literature News Eighteenth Century Conferences translation journalism Religion Education Sixteenth Century higher education exhibitions
WS: ‘Translating English republicanism in the European Enlightenment’
25 February 2023
22 June 2023, Newcastle University, Armstrong Building ARMB 1.06 This workshop addresses the significance of translation for the dissemination of English republican ideas in...
Are Zoom conferences making academia more exclusive?
11 January 2023
The fashion for Zoom meetings in academia might have started out of necessity during the coronavirus pandemic, but the little video tiles on our laptop screens are likely here to stay....
The Other Black Girl and the Power of Hair
15 December 2022
Nella works at Wagner in New York. But life in the publishing world is not easy for a young black woman, especially as the only black person in the office. So Nella is excited when...
23 September 2022
The cover of Erin Litteken’s Memory Keeper of Kyiv. Erin Litteken tells the story of four generations of women of an American family. At the centre of the story is Cassie, the young...