Joint #earlymodern online book launch next Monday, 26 Oct for myself & @rentravailer.bsky.social, hosted by the wonderful @srsrensoc.bsky.social! We've had a few joint reviews so this is finally our chance to say more about the connections between the two books. Please consider joining us online!

Society for Renaissance Studies@srsrensoc.bsky.social · yesterday

BOOK TALK! Delighted to host @rentravailer.bsky.social & @laurenworking.bsky.social in conversation about their fab books which are reconfiguring our understanding of #earlymodern England in a global perspective! Mon 26 Oct, 5pm (UK) free registration: www.crowdcast.io/c/das-working #skystorians

BOOK TALK! Delighted to host @rentravailer.bsky.social & @laurenworking.bsky.social in conversation about their fab books which are reconfiguring our understanding of #earlymodern England in a global perspective! Mon 26 Oct, 5pm (UK) free registration: www.crowdcast.io/c/das-working #skystorians

🚨Extended Deadline Klaxon🚨 The deadline to submit papers for the Stuart Drama Conference has been extended to 16th October. Get your proposals in and get excited! @racheljwillie.bsky.social @nicosiamarissa.bsky.social @bkadams.bsky.social

Dr Caroline Taylor@cazzert.bsky.social · 5mo ago

The CFP for the Stuart Drama Conference (July 2027) is officially open! stuartdrama.com/cfp/stuart-d... Been a privilege to dream this up with the incredible @racheljwillie.bsky.social @nicosiamarissa.bsky.social and @bkadams.bsky.social. So excited to share it with you all!

What a beautiful new addition to the Huntington Library's art collection – a c. 1620 still life with flowers, gems, and lacquered jewellery box. emuseum.huntington.org/objects/6673...

Just days after it was unveiled, the plaque commemorating Portchester’s Caribbean prisoners of war has been stolen. I’m heartbroken that the ceremony on Friday has been tarnished in such a disrespectful way. www.portsmouth.co.uk/news/crime/h...

Historic plaque goes missing from Portchester Castle as staff fear it was stolen

“We are incredulous and bitterly disappointed.”

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this episode was a real tour de force. So bittersweet to listen in the wake of last week's news about losing Free Thinking. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

BBC Radio 4 - Free Thinking, Reading against the grain

As Woman's Hour marks 80 years, Matthew Sweet and guests explore women's voices in history

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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...

How the Americas Transformed Tudor England

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

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

Marissa Nicosia@nicosiamarissa.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Stuart Drama Conference! Liverpool, 2027 CFP due in October stuartdrama.com/cfp/stuart-d... I've been dreaming and scheming about this conference with @racheljwillie.bsky.social @cazzert.bsky.social @bkadams.bsky.social for nearly a year now.

Sorry to inform to you that Free Thinking has been axed. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

BBC to cut raft of Radio 4 programmes including You and Yours

The corporation said it would be investing in a new consumer programme, while announcing more cuts.

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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

@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...

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

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'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...

It'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...

CREMS Events Programme Semester 1 26/27.docx

Seminars, Conferences, Events (Semester 1 26/27) Hybrid CREMS Seminars start 15 minutes after the advertised start time. Wednesday 30 September 5pm-7pm CREMS INTRODUCTORY SHINDIG! All Welcom...

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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.

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...

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.

📢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

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.

Claire E. Aubin@ceaubin.com · last mo.

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.

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.

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

Drafting the Past@draftingthepast.bsky.social · 2mo ago

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... 🗃️

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.

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... 🗃️

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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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

Drafting the Past

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

draftingthepast.com

*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

I'll be giving a tour of some of the art & spaces at Queen's House, Greenwich, for the @forarthistory.org.uk Art History Festival in October. It's a free event, please spread the word and come along if you can! festival.forarthistory.org.uk/event/pearls... #earlymodern #AGoldenWorld

Pearls, Sugar, & Tobacco Flowers: English Queens in an Atlantic World - Art History Festival - Association for Art History

In Tudor and Stuart England, cactuses and Chesapeake plants grew in London gardens, and much of the silver gleaming in banquets had once travelled on the backs of mules across Panama. Join Lauren Work...

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Had to do a double take when I saw Literary Review’s August cover. I love that #AGoldenWorld inspired Chris Riddell’s image of a smoking gentleman & his sunflower, leaning against a cabinet. And the headline goes straight to the point: ‘What the New World Did for Us’. @faberbooks.bsky.social

Delighted to announce that the Handbook is coming out in paperback!

Have really enjoyed hearing about @brettrushforth.bsky.social & Chris Hodson’s new history of the French Atlantic, here & elsewhere — stunning archival & geographic breadth, and lots too about the impact of encounter on 16th/17th century France (such as the Black boatmen at Louis XIV’s Versailles).

Drafting the Past@draftingthepast.bsky.social · 3mo ago

We're back! @brettrushforth.bsky.social and Chris Hodson joined me to talk about two decades of collaborating on BEYOND THE OCEAN, using visual and material culture to tell a different story, and more. Plus a cameo by Eminem! Listen here: player.captivate.fm/episode/f2ca... 🗃️

People always ask me whether Aphra Behn and Hortense Mancini were friends. So I spent 4 years piecing together every bit of evidence that links them and wrote it all up in an article for HLQ. Here it is! 💫

Brett Rushforth@brettrushforth.bsky.social · 3mo ago

muse.jhu.edu/article/996865

Desperately wish I could go see this! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Decade-old Birmingham giant agave enters 'death bloom' stage

Birmingham Botanical Gardens describes the bloom as the "botanical world's ultimate farewell tour".

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