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Lauren Working @laurenworking.bsky.social · 4h

This was such a good episode! One of the first ones I listened to. (And pairs well with mine on Martin Frobisher! open.spotify.com/episode/3nvT...)

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Martin Frobisher with Lauren Working (Subscriber Preview)

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Lauren Working @laurenworking.bsky.social · 12h

The 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.

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Lauren Working @laurenworking.bsky.social · 13h

Just 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: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/h...

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How the Americas Transformed Tudor England

Podcast Episode · Not Just the Tudors · 1 October · 57min

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Rachel Willie @racheljwillie.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Come one, come all! Shower us with your lovely abstracts!

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Lauren Working @laurenworking.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

quickly adopting the same pose as Purchas' Prince Henry in response to this

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Lauren Working @laurenworking.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

no evidence but nonetheless wondering if Henry Rich, Earl of Holland was keeping Henrietta Maria company while telling her stories of Caribbean islands…

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Lauren Working @laurenworking.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

what 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 ✨ @faberbooks.bsky.social #AGoldenWorld

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Erika Gaffney @erikagaffney.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

@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." www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/press/pre...

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Rijksmuseum and Museo Nacional del Prado Launch Landmark Partnership on Women in Art and History - Rijksmuseum

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Lauren Working @laurenworking.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

'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: www.rmg.co.uk/whats-on/que...

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Lauren Working @laurenworking.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I’d love to know. Need to look into the architecture more - hard to get too close as the house is still inhabited!

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Lauren Working @laurenworking.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The 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.

A photo of the front facade of Barbados Villa, a historic house in Wigtown.

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Lauren Working @laurenworking.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

A 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.

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Lauren Working @laurenworking.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

With 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 www.draftingthepast.com/lauren-worki... -This Guy Sucked podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m...

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Martin Frobisher with Lauren Working (Subscriber Preview)

Podcast Episode · This Guy Sucked · September 10 · 17m

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Lauren Working @laurenworking.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

For anyone interested in #Tudor & #Stuart material culture and its intersections with the Atlantic world, here are a few upcoming #AGoldenWorld events: 1) Wigtown Book Festival, Sat 26 Sept: tickets.wigtownbookfestival.com/sales/events...

Screenshot of Wigtown Book Festival programme. The event reads, 'Renaissance adventurers journeyed to the Americas expecting to find cities of gold. What they found instead forever altered life in Elizabethan England.'

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Lauren Working @laurenworking.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

(apparently there was a bit of damage to the first boy's ruff)

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Lauren Working @laurenworking.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

you'll be able to see its conservation journey!

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Lauren Working @laurenworking.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

it is, yes! Looks great alongside the Somerset House painting and Mytens’ Charles I.

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Lauren Working @laurenworking.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Amazing to be at the National Portrait Gallery tonight to toast the knowledge-sharing & conservation efforts that have led to the public display of this mysterious #earlymodern portrait from 1626 (the artist and two boys are as yet unidentified). It will be on show in London until March 2028.

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Lauren Working @laurenworking.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

will not be able to unsee this 😅 Thanks for picking up the book!

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Nadine Akkerman @misswalsingham.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

📢Here's a fully funded 4-year PhD position at Leiden within the ERC project LangPro led by Dr Alisa van de Haar, and co-supervised by yours truly, on professional opportunities for women in the early modern language sector: careers.universiteitleiden.nl/job/PhD-Posi... Apply by 15 Oct 2026

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PhD Position Women in the Early Modern Language Sector

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Lauren Working @laurenworking.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

One reader of Clare Jackson's recent @lrb.co.uk review of my book points out the people behind transatlantic objects – incidentally, using the example of the Inuit with whom I open my book. Hopefully this conversation w/ the amazing Claire elucidates how the material is inextricable from the human.

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Lauren Working @laurenworking.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Loved being on @thisguysucked.com. The conversation starts w/ Tudor gold-fever & ends with how different history might be when we centre other perspectives, ask other questions. Or if the full-length Inuit portraits had survived to hang alongside the only one we have from this venture: Frobisher's.

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Claire E. Aubin @ceaubin.com · 08/09/2026

THURSDAY ON @thisguysucked.com: the wonderful Lauren Working @laurenworking.bsky.social joins me to talk about an early modern adventurer in Canada who loved kidnapping. Not great.

A painting of a man in a ruff, his face scribbled out

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Erika Is Still Writing @bluetit24.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Listening to @laurenworking.bsky.social talking about her book A GOLDEN WORLD - recommended 💛

Picture of the book “A GOLDEN WORLD: How the Americas Transformed Renaissance England” by Lauren Working

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Lauren Working @laurenworking.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

And this view helped inspire Henry James’ Daisy Miller

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Lauren Working @laurenworking.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Views from the dizzying Château de Chillon on Lake Geneva, which so captivated Lord Byron that he wrote a poem about one of its 16th century prisoners.

View of the castle from its highest tower, with Lake Geneva and the mountains beyond.

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Drafting the Past @draftingthepast.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

New! Kate talked to @laurenworking.bsky.social abt her vibrant book A GOLDEN WORLD and the pleasures and frustrations of writing history through objects. Lauren shared advice about evoking the sensory experience of objects (even those long gone) on the page. www.draftingthepast.com/lauren-worki... 🗃️

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Lauren Working Communes with the Objects

In episode 111 of the Drafting the Past podcast, Kate Carpenter interviews Dr. Lauren Working about how she used objects to tell a new history of England and the Americas in the sixteenth and seventee...

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Words For That @forloulou.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Really involving talk with @laurenworking.bsky.social about th things that take us inside #earlymo colonialism - completely made my podcast-listening walk to th dept this morning. Thanks Kate Carpenter @katecarp.bsky.social www.draftingthepast.com

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Drafting the Past

Reviews, craft essays, news and more for readers and writers of history.

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The Warburg Institute @warburginstitute.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

*Call for Papers closes 25 September 2026* 'The #Renaissance beyond Borders' #conference from @srsrensoc.bsky.social takes place 30 June - 3 July 2027 here in the Warburg. Proposals for papers across Renaissance studies are invited until 25 September. Learn more & submit your paper ➡️ buff.ly/91FCXvj

Image: Firenze, Toscana, Itália. Credit: Bruna Santos / pixels.com

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Lauren Working @laurenworking.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

oh this is so interesting – I will need to check The French Garden out!

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Lauren Working @laurenworking.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Yes! With lots of distinction in Gerard (and later John Parkinson) about the quality of Atlantic-grown vs. English-grown tobacco.

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Lauren Working @laurenworking.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

My thanks to the brilliant Emma Smith for her review: ‘Anyone interested in Tudor and Stuart England should read it’. ‘The human cost of the English delight in the Americas is never far from view in Working’s clever & compassionate reconstruction of its significance’. #earlymodern #AGoldenWorld

Page from Literary Review headed, ‘Filthy Novelties’ and showing Van Dyck’s Self Portrait with a Sunflower.

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