May was all about:
📚 Tuition
🤝 Meetings
📖 Research
✍️ Finishing assignments
🌡️ Attempting to survive the heat
👨👩👧👦 Family
So it was really lovely to end the month in Oxford, catching up with my big sister, getting plenty of cuddles from my nephews, picking up some new books, and meeting a new friend.
JLF starts today. I’m in London, but as a carer, student, and freelancer, travelling to the British Library to sit through 8hrs of talks 2 days in a row isn’t feasible. But thanks to technology, I get to enjoy the live stream, plus recordings of all the talks I miss. Feeling very grateful today!
GKSihat (she/her)
Substack this May:
📜 How a medieval dispute fuelled centuries of conflict in Italy.
📚 Why the books we reread become mirrors and companions.
✍️ The Tre Corone: three Florentines who shaped the Renaissance.
💭 On curated lives, impossible routines, and self-optimisation.
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Today's post is all about the idea of 'staying in your lane' and why I refuse to listen, thoughts triggered by one ignorant comment at this month's history festival.
Read it here: gksihat.substack.com/p/history-do...
Substack has been a great place to write the past six weeks! Check out my latest personal posts here:
✨ gksihat.substack.com/p/one-for-so...
✨ gksihat.substack.com/p/the-day-a-...
✨ gksihat.substack.com/p/the-cost-o...
2026 is all about celebrating female artists over on my Substack and website. To end the first half of the year, I've welcomed the first of two incredible guest contributors. Welcome @artherstory.bsky.social, talking all about Catharina van Hemessen!
gksihat.com/catharina-va...
Mary Cassatt redefined the way women were seen in art. She painted women as thinkers, observers, workers, and individuals with inner lives. She challenged the art world.
Check out the latest instalment of my Female Artists series, Painting the New Woman here:
gksihat.com/mary-cassatt/
