Lauren Working
@laurenworking.bsky.social
Early modernist at the University of York | Writing a book about how the Americas & its peoples influenced Tudor/Stuart art, lit, & style | TEMPEST for Oxford World's Classics (2024) | BBC Radio 3 New Gen Thinker | Rep'd by Emma Bal at Madeleine Milburn.
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News is out! This summer I signed with @faberbooks.bsky.social to publish a trade book. It's a new history of Tudor & Stuart London, told through guavas & muskrats, Miskito ‘princes’ & Muzo emerald miners, baroque masterpieces & Caribbean gums in court masques.
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In Switzerland for Epiphany which means my first galette des rois in decades 🍐👑 ❄️
January 6, 2026 at 9:21 AM
In Switzerland for Epiphany which means my first galette des rois in decades 🍐👑 ❄️
✨ 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...
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...
British Art Studies
*British Art Studies* is an innovative space for new peer-reviewed scholarship on all aspects of British art.
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December 19, 2025 at 11:07 AM
✨ 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...
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...
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 ✂️
December 12, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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 ✂️
Swimming in #goldenworld copyedits this week & thinking a lot about supply chains & modern waste colonialism. For anyone interested in labour & craft in our own fashion system, this is such a good Wardrobe Crisis episode on the evils of super fast fashion: thewardrobecrisis.com/podcast/ep-2...
Ep 231, Inside Shein: How the Ultra Fast Fashion Brand Makes Clothes So Cheap — Wardrobe Crisis
Despite Shein’s new sustainability rhetoric, workers are still paying the price for the ultra-fast fashion giant’s success. To 75-hour working weeks, piece rates and no contracts, add secrecy, opaque...
thewardrobecrisis.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Swimming in #goldenworld copyedits this week & thinking a lot about supply chains & modern waste colonialism. For anyone interested in labour & craft in our own fashion system, this is such a good Wardrobe Crisis episode on the evils of super fast fashion: thewardrobecrisis.com/podcast/ep-2...
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Several Indigenous short films will be streamed for free by the National Museum of the American Indian from November 21 (5 PM ET) to November 28, 2025 (5 PM ET).
americanindian.si.edu/native-cinem...
americanindian.si.edu/native-cinem...
Shorts - Native Cinema Showcase 2025
Welcome to Native Cinema Showcase 2024
americanindian.si.edu
November 21, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Several Indigenous short films will be streamed for free by the National Museum of the American Indian from November 21 (5 PM ET) to November 28, 2025 (5 PM ET).
americanindian.si.edu/native-cinem...
americanindian.si.edu/native-cinem...
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if you would like to read about early modern hammocks, it's publication day for the article the brilliant @marcynorton.bsky.social and I wrote about them! (open access)
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Towards a history of the hammock: An Indigenous technology in the Atlantic world - postmedieval
When Europeans arrived in the Western Hemisphere beginning in the fifteenth century, they learned that Indigenous groups across the Caribbean and South America valued few technologies as much as the h...
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November 11, 2025 at 1:58 PM
if you would like to read about early modern hammocks, it's publication day for the article the brilliant @marcynorton.bsky.social and I wrote about them! (open access)
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Can't wait to see our #StudentSalon cabinet in action in the classroom for the first time later this week! Seems like the perfect time to reshare @laurenworking.bsky.social's blog post on why we created this with student partners over the summer
blogs.york.ac.uk/student-salo...
blogs.york.ac.uk/student-salo...
November 11, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Can't wait to see our #StudentSalon cabinet in action in the classroom for the first time later this week! Seems like the perfect time to reshare @laurenworking.bsky.social's blog post on why we created this with student partners over the summer
blogs.york.ac.uk/student-salo...
blogs.york.ac.uk/student-salo...
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Somewhat astonishingly, here it is, a book, a thing in the world... More, including acknowledgements, soon❤️
October 31, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Somewhat astonishingly, here it is, a book, a thing in the world... More, including acknowledgements, soon❤️
On this day in 1611 — days before the first recorded performance of Shakespeare’s Tempest — the inauguration of a new Lord Mayor of London involved an elaborate pageant featuring English subjects dressed up as Indigenous Americans ‘from the rich and Golden Indian mines’. #goldenworld
October 29, 2025 at 2:07 PM
On this day in 1611 — days before the first recorded performance of Shakespeare’s Tempest — the inauguration of a new Lord Mayor of London involved an elaborate pageant featuring English subjects dressed up as Indigenous Americans ‘from the rich and Golden Indian mines’. #goldenworld
Delighted to share some initial research that Stephanie Pratt (Crow Creek Dakota) & I have started at Knole @researchnt.bsky.social. How can its transatlantic connections also centre Indigenous presence? What new interpretation might such frameworks allow?
www.historyworkshop.org.uk/indigenous-h...
www.historyworkshop.org.uk/indigenous-h...
Indigenous Plant Stories in an English Treasure House
Delve into the links between Knole and Indigenous American histories as we investigate its colonial connections.
www.historyworkshop.org.uk
October 7, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Delighted to share some initial research that Stephanie Pratt (Crow Creek Dakota) & I have started at Knole @researchnt.bsky.social. How can its transatlantic connections also centre Indigenous presence? What new interpretation might such frameworks allow?
www.historyworkshop.org.uk/indigenous-h...
www.historyworkshop.org.uk/indigenous-h...
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What traces of Indigenous American history lie within English country houses? In our latest article, Lauren Working and Stephanie Pratt explore how trade and tobacco shaped a famous stately home.
www.historyworkshop....
www.historyworkshop....
October 7, 2025 at 7:30 AM
What traces of Indigenous American history lie within English country houses? In our latest article, Lauren Working and Stephanie Pratt explore how trade and tobacco shaped a famous stately home.
www.historyworkshop....
www.historyworkshop....
Congratulations Sarah Howe on a beautiful new book of poetry ✨
October 4, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Congratulations Sarah Howe on a beautiful new book of poetry ✨
Such a joy to celebrate @cjfaraday.bsky.social’s new book, The Story of Tudor Art, at the Philip Mould Gallery this evening — the perfect setting to toast a stunning book that investigates the weird, wonderful world of Tudor artifice. I love that Esther Inglis appears next to the Great Bed of Ware.
September 30, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Such a joy to celebrate @cjfaraday.bsky.social’s new book, The Story of Tudor Art, at the Philip Mould Gallery this evening — the perfect setting to toast a stunning book that investigates the weird, wonderful world of Tudor artifice. I love that Esther Inglis appears next to the Great Bed of Ware.
Some of the most poignant objects were those fabrics w/ signs of wear. Stains, snags, tattered silks & linens— including one of Marie Antoinette’s prison chemises. Beyond the flashy, macaron-hued attention-grabbers, other textiles bring us to the fragility of the past.
#marieantoinettestyle
#marieantoinettestyle
September 30, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Some of the most poignant objects were those fabrics w/ signs of wear. Stains, snags, tattered silks & linens— including one of Marie Antoinette’s prison chemises. Beyond the flashy, macaron-hued attention-grabbers, other textiles bring us to the fragility of the past.
#marieantoinettestyle
#marieantoinettestyle
Just loved squeezing in the Marie Antoinette Style exhibition the V&A today. A gorgeous, saccharine, portentous look at the French queen and 18th century court style/its afterlife. Which is also, really, about making - about artisans and ateliers and getting up close to intricate handiwork.
September 30, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Just loved squeezing in the Marie Antoinette Style exhibition the V&A today. A gorgeous, saccharine, portentous look at the French queen and 18th century court style/its afterlife. Which is also, really, about making - about artisans and ateliers and getting up close to intricate handiwork.
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Bugs in salons?! Recent University of York graduate Mumia Douse-Bah's blog explores the colonial context of bugs and recounts a flea on a salon attendee's breast that spurred a 'poetic frenzy' 🐛🐜
@uoyenglishrl.bsky.social @laurenworking.bsky.social #StudentSalon
blogs.york.ac.uk/student-salo...
@uoyenglishrl.bsky.social @laurenworking.bsky.social #StudentSalon
blogs.york.ac.uk/student-salo...
September 24, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Bugs in salons?! Recent University of York graduate Mumia Douse-Bah's blog explores the colonial context of bugs and recounts a flea on a salon attendee's breast that spurred a 'poetic frenzy' 🐛🐜
@uoyenglishrl.bsky.social @laurenworking.bsky.social #StudentSalon
blogs.york.ac.uk/student-salo...
@uoyenglishrl.bsky.social @laurenworking.bsky.social #StudentSalon
blogs.york.ac.uk/student-salo...
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An amazing headband made of dyed porcupine quills by an Indigenous person in the Great Lakes region around 1760. It is in such remarkable condition because it was kept in a Scottish castle for 250 years.
September 19, 2025 at 8:27 PM
An amazing headband made of dyed porcupine quills by an Indigenous person in the Great Lakes region around 1760. It is in such remarkable condition because it was kept in a Scottish castle for 250 years.
Over the summer, students worked with me & @susannah-lw.bsky.social on the #StudentSalon project, where they helped us assemble a cabinet of 17th & 18th century objects. Our webpage is now live and full of incredible, student-led resources - please check it out!
blogs.york.ac.uk/student-salo...
blogs.york.ac.uk/student-salo...
The Student Salon – The Student Salon Project
blogs.york.ac.uk
September 18, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Over the summer, students worked with me & @susannah-lw.bsky.social on the #StudentSalon project, where they helped us assemble a cabinet of 17th & 18th century objects. Our webpage is now live and full of incredible, student-led resources - please check it out!
blogs.york.ac.uk/student-salo...
blogs.york.ac.uk/student-salo...
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Wampum beads excavated this summer season at Ferryland, a very early 17thC settlement under an hour drive along coast west of St John’s. Amazing site for preservation of stone structures and evidence of wide Atlantic trade networks. #EarlyModern #Archaeology
'Extremely unusual' discovery of wampum beads in Ferryland believed to be province's first | CBC News
One Memorial University graduate student came across seven wampum while digging at the Colony of Avalon earlier this summer — and one archaeologist says the discovery changes what we know about life a...
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September 16, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Wampum beads excavated this summer season at Ferryland, a very early 17thC settlement under an hour drive along coast west of St John’s. Amazing site for preservation of stone structures and evidence of wide Atlantic trade networks. #EarlyModern #Archaeology
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"While it may not be possible for a national archive in a settler colonial state to truly decolonize; an archive can look to Indigenous communities to lead the way in creating new ways to engage with the effects of colonization."
Read about Project Naming's approach to reclaiming Inuit history.
Read about Project Naming's approach to reclaiming Inuit history.
Project Naming
Explore the significance of Project Naming to decolonize archives and connect Inuit communities with their ancestral photographs.
www.historyworkshop.org.uk
August 28, 2025 at 11:45 AM
"While it may not be possible for a national archive in a settler colonial state to truly decolonize; an archive can look to Indigenous communities to lead the way in creating new ways to engage with the effects of colonization."
Read about Project Naming's approach to reclaiming Inuit history.
Read about Project Naming's approach to reclaiming Inuit history.
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Our collection, Mapping the Early Modern Inns of Court: Writing Communities, is being launched! Come and join us (in person at Middle Temple Library or online) at 6.15pm on Tuesday 9 Sept. Email MappingInns@gmail.com for more details. link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
Mapping the Early Modern Inns of Court
This collection of essays presents recent research on the Inns of Court and their place in the literary and cultural spaces of the early modern world.
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September 1, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Our collection, Mapping the Early Modern Inns of Court: Writing Communities, is being launched! Come and join us (in person at Middle Temple Library or online) at 6.15pm on Tuesday 9 Sept. Email MappingInns@gmail.com for more details. link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
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My new book 📕 The Story of Tudor Art 🌹 comes out on 25th September. It’s the first book ever (!!) to look at art from across the whole sixteenth century in England and I can’t wait to share it with you.
August 19, 2025 at 11:53 AM
My new book 📕 The Story of Tudor Art 🌹 comes out on 25th September. It’s the first book ever (!!) to look at art from across the whole sixteenth century in England and I can’t wait to share it with you.
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New book out: Habsburg Encounters with Native America, with foreword by Anton Treuer and afterword by me! Open access! www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...
Habsburg Encounters with Native America
The central European lands of the Habsburg monarchy have long shared an intertwined past with the Indigenous inhabitants of the Americas. This volume focuses on the process of encountering these peopl...
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June 7, 2025 at 12:36 AM
New book out: Habsburg Encounters with Native America, with foreword by Anton Treuer and afterword by me! Open access! www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...
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Off to an exciting and fascinating start to a day on Women’s Worlds, on global spaces in 17th and 18th century Britain. Thank you to @susannah-lw.bsky.social & @laurenworking.bsky.social for bringing together so many interesting perspectives and research from universities, museums & heritage sites.
July 25, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Off to an exciting and fascinating start to a day on Women’s Worlds, on global spaces in 17th and 18th century Britain. Thank you to @susannah-lw.bsky.social & @laurenworking.bsky.social for bringing together so many interesting perspectives and research from universities, museums & heritage sites.
felt fitting to pass the gold shops on Hatton Gardens on my way to discuss #GoldenWorld with my editor at the Faber offices today — a book full of treasure, bullion, and silver shillings making transatlantic crossings into Renaissance England
July 17, 2025 at 3:54 PM
felt fitting to pass the gold shops on Hatton Gardens on my way to discuss #GoldenWorld with my editor at the Faber offices today — a book full of treasure, bullion, and silver shillings making transatlantic crossings into Renaissance England