✨ Out today! ✨
Happy publication day to #AGoldenWorld @faberbooks.bsky.social 🎉🎉
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Lauren Working
@laurenworking.bsky.social
Early modernist at the University of York | A GOLDEN WORLD (Faber, 2026) | TEMPEST for Oxford World's Classics (2024) | BBC Radio 3 New Gen Thinker | Rep'd by Emma Bal at Madeleine Milburn.
@laurenworking.bsky.social Pinned@laurenworking.bsky.socialThis was such a good episode! One of the first ones I listened to.
(And pairs well with mine on Martin Frobisher!
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@laurenworking.bsky.socialThe chat ends w/ a mention of the 2 graphics in the book by Rebecca Lee Kunz (Cherokee), which reinterpret Elizabethan print culture through Native flora––sunflowers, maize, tobacco flowers. #IndigenousPeoplesDay is a good day to remember that Tudor history is also the history of Indigenous peoples.
@laurenworking.bsky.socialJust noticed that my chat w/ Suzannah Lipscomb for Not Just the Tudors aired recently – we talk about Henry VIII's cash problem, North American tricksters & shamans, Cleopatra's earring, & Jacobean fears of being duped into wearing fakes:
@racheljwillie.bsky.socialReposted by @laurenworking.bsky.socialCome one, come all! Shower us with your lovely abstracts!
@drmatthewsweet.bsky.socialReposted by @laurenworking.bsky.socialSorry to inform to you that Free Thinking has been axed. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
@laurenworking.bsky.socialquickly adopting the same pose as Purchas' Prince Henry in response to this
@laurenworking.bsky.socialno evidence but nonetheless wondering if Henry Rich, Earl of Holland was keeping Henrietta Maria company while telling her stories of Caribbean islands…
@laurenworking.bsky.socialwhat a setting to talk patronesses & Atlantic economies today, in the company of Elizabeth I’s Armada portrait & Henrietta Maria’s painted ceiling at Queen’s House. With thanks to curators & @forarthistory.org.uk for including me in the festival programme ✨
@erikagaffney.bsky.socialReposted by @laurenworking.bsky.social@rijksmuseum.bsky.social and @museodelprado.es Launch Landmark Partnership on Women in Art and History
"The Rijksmuseum and the Museo Nacional del Prado announce an in-depth research partnership focusing on women in art and history."
@laurenworking.bsky.social'Pearls, Sugar, & Tobacco Flowers' happens this Tues, 6 October @forarthistory.org.uk festival.
Come hear about how women from Elizabeth I to Henrietta Maria expressed their power & style in relation to the Americas, & bask in Inigo Jones' breathtaking architecture:
@emiliekmmurphy.bsky.socialReposted by @laurenworking.bsky.socialIt's week 1 and that means the start of a new @crems-york.bsky.social semester of #earlymodern delights! 🗃️ Many of which are hybrid and open to all: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
@laurenworking.bsky.socialI’d love to know. Need to look into the architecture more - hard to get too close as the house is still inhabited!
@laurenworking.bsky.socialThe Atlantic world never far from mind — my B&B was just above ‘Barbados Villa’, a 19th century home built from transatlantic sugar money, its architecture inspired by Caribbean estate houses.
@laurenworking.bsky.socialA charming weekend in Scotland to talk about #AGoldenWorld at the #WigtownBookFestival. Lavender skies and a full moon over forests and marshland. My lovely driver Dave pointed out smugglers’ caves and took me to a Neolithic mound when we arrived early for my train.
@laurenworking.bsky.sociallooks very fun!
@laurenworking.bsky.social-Royal Studies Network
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-Untitled History
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@laurenworking.bsky.social-The Scholar's Armchair
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-History Extra
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@laurenworking.bsky.socialWith more in-person events soon, including at the National Portrait Gallery and the V&A in London.
In the meantime, I've discussed aspects of the book on podcasts including:
-Drafting the Past
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-This Guy Sucked
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@laurenworking.bsky.social4) Bridport Book Festival, Sun 8 Nov:
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@laurenworking.bsky.social3) Queen's House, Greenwich, Tue 6 Oct:
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