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Professor Michaela Mahlberg on A Christmas Carol

Professor Mahlberg featured in a video by the Town Hall Symphony Hall to showcase their forthcoming reading of Dickens' classic.

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Professor Michaela Mahlberg, the Principal Investigator of the CLiC Dickens project, was featured in a video by the Town Hall Symphony Hall to accompany this year’s show of 'A Christmas Carol'.

Over 160 years after Charles Dickens did his very first reading of A Christmas Carol at Town Hall, @THSHBirmingham delve into history with @unibirmingham's @MichaMahlberg. @DickensMuseum https://t.co/kEYHpcj9uB pic.twitter.com/17nLYHi0th

Professor Mahlberg has also published a Birmingham Perspectives piece this week, entitled “Bah Humbug! - Was Christmas invented in Birmingham?