Lauren Working

thank you, Katherine! I'm insanely jealous you're so near to the Tradescant collection!

A Golden World: How the Americas Transformed Renaissance England How the Americas Transformed Renaissance England

this astounding object is rightly getting a lot of attention - if you're interested in what Indigenous American objects are doing in England, @laurenworking.bsky.social's forthcoming book is for you uk.bookshop.org/p/books/a-go...

thank you!

Marking my calendar now!!

thank you! looking forward to your thoughts!

Thank you!

Thank you! I've been promised gold foil on the hardbacks...

Thank you! And I totally agree - Brotton’s book is fab and this tries to add another piece to the ‘global Tudors‘ puzzle.

Yes! Have spent many hours searching for turkeys in embroideries and woodcuts!

thank you! there's a bit on potatoes, 'Virginia basil', roasted sunflowers, sugar, and other foods that made their way onto Jacobean banqueting tables!

Thank you! Can't wait to have it out in the world!

Thank you, Karin!

Thank you Holly!

Thank you! I have a chapter on watercolours, so The Head in Edward Nugent’s Hand was very helpful for the John White/Roanoke context!

My proofs have arrived and #AGoldenWorld is now available to preorder! How did Indigenous peoples and knowledge enter into Tudor & Stuart art, literature, and fashion – and at what cost?

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#earlymodern #Tudors

I cannot wait for yours either...I've been very jealous of your recent travels!

Thank you, David! Looking forward to your thoughts!

Proofs just in for A Golden World, featuring our glorious cover artwork ✨

A glittering new history of how the Americas transformed early modern England from award-winning historian @laurenworking.bsky.social, A Golden World is out 18 June and available to pre-order now.

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Washoe Tribe secures 10,274 acres in Sierra Nevada homelands The Washoe Tribe of Nevada and California acquired 10,274 acres northeast of Lake Tahoe in the largest tribal land return ever completed in the Sierra Nevada mountain range.

Another win for #LANDBACK! The Washoe Tribe of Nevada and California acquired 10,274 acres of their ancestral homelands in California. The Tribe was forcibly removed from these lands during the state-funded “extermination” of California Natives in the 1850s.

BBC Radio 4 - Drama on 4, The Last of the Mohicans, Episode 1 American classic refreshed – adventures in love and war.

I just chaired a discussion for BBC radio on The Last of the Mohicans, Indigenous futurities, and US settler colonialism with some awesome people, including academics and Indigenous authors, that should drop soon. Stay tuned! Related to this adaptation, which I advised in its early development.

I love Jonathan Anderson anyway and now he is BRINGING RUFFS back to menswear #earlymodern

The Culture & Craft of Wood Type | Rare Book School Course Length: 30 hours Course Week: 12–17 July 2026 Format: in person, York, UK Fee: $1,495 This course offers an in-depth engagement with the culture and craft of wood type, with a core focus on the...

🚨 Two @rarebookschool.bsky.social courses coming to York in July!
@wordsmith.bsky.social 'The Culture & Craft of Wood Type' & @jenniebatchelor.bsky.social 'The Rise of Periodical Print Culture'
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🗃️ #bookhistory #earlymodern #18thC

Professor Emma Smith awarded Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship

Congratulations to Professor Emma Smith @oldfortunatus.bsky.social who has been awarded a three-year Major Research Fellowship by the Leverhulme Trust for her project: ‘Imperial bibliography: books, race and value’.

Find out more about the project on our website:

In Switzerland for Epiphany which means my first galette des rois in decades 🍐👑 ❄️

so exciting, congrats!

I'm talking emeralds, an Algonquian guardian spirit on the masquing stage, triumphal arches, the Earl of Arundel's interest in Naumkeag (Massachusetts) marble, and why colonists compared Caribbean volcanoes to an Inigo Jones masterpiece.

✨ New open access issue of British Art Studies! ✨

Offering a phenomenal reappraisal of James VI and I's artistic legacy, ed. Kate Anderson, @jemmafield.bsky.social, & Catriona Murray.

My piece offers a transatlantic perspective on James' banqueting houses: britishartstudies.ac.uk/issues/29/ki...

Thank you, Holly!

thank you! just finishing up copyedits now!

Christmas come early! Congrats @starcrossed2018.bsky.social on such a dazzling book about colour, folds, fabrics, silken strings, and what all this means for language ✂️