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Lauren Working

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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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Lauren Working @laurenworking.bsky.social · Sep 6

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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Lauren Working @laurenworking.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you!

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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?

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Indigenous Plant Stories in an English Treasure House

Delve into the links between Knole and Indigenous American histories as we investigate its colonial connections.

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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 1d

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.

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Display case of dozens of white clay tobacco pipes excavated in England. Their form derives from Indigenous American pipe traditions, showing how Native technologies were adopted, industrialised, and embedded into English social life.

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Lauren Working @laurenworking.bsky.social · 4d

I didn’t know that! Amazing!

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with a dash of Sidney and Milton

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Lauren Working @laurenworking.bsky.social · 4d

Congratulations Sarah Howe on a beautiful new book of poetry ✨

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Lauren Working @laurenworking.bsky.social · 8d

The train journey is flying by, this book is a jewel!

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Lauren Working @laurenworking.bsky.social · 8d

On the note of Tudor art, the Philip Mould Gallery has recently acquired a VERY rare & exciting early 16th c painting. More coming soon but here it is being safely handled by Lawrence and Simon, with thanks to Philip for the sneak peek.

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Lauren Working @laurenworking.bsky.social · 8d

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.

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Lauren Working @laurenworking.bsky.social · 8d

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

Lauren Working @laurenworking.bsky.social · 8d

Spent a long time staring at lace and floral/animal print mashups in 18th century fabrics 🐆 🎀

Lauren Working @laurenworking.bsky.social · 8d

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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Susannah Lyon-Whaley @susannah-lw.bsky.social · 14d

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

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Lauren Working @laurenworking.bsky.social · 15d

Huge congrats, Taylor! Love the cover image and can't wait to read it.

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Robbie @londonmikmaq.bsky.social · 19d

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.

A headband with ornate patterns made of porcupine quillwork

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Lauren Working @laurenworking.bsky.social · 20d

thanks for checking it out!

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with blogs on everything from bugs to trade beads to cinnamon, a reading list, and an object catalogue

Lauren Working @laurenworking.bsky.social · 20d

With an introduction to the project here: blogs.york.ac.uk/student-salo...

The Cabinet Unlocked – The Student Salon Project

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Lauren Working @laurenworking.bsky.social · 20d

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!

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The Student Salon – The Student Salon Project

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Neil M Kennedy @nmkennedy.bsky.social · 22d

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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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · Aug 28

"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.

Project Naming

Explore the significance of Project Naming to decolonize archives and connect Inuit communities with their ancestral photographs.

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Jackie Watson @jackiewatson05.bsky.social · Sep 1

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 [email protected] 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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Lauren Working @laurenworking.bsky.social · Aug 29

This is so exciting!!

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Dr Christina Faraday @cjfaraday.bsky.social · Aug 19

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.

Red book cover with gold lettering, titled The Story of Tudor Art. Instead of O’s, two portrait miniatures with Elizabeth I and the artist Nicholas Hilliard. In white at the bottom the words “A history of Tudor England through its art and objects”

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Robbie @londonmikmaq.bsky.social · Jun 7

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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