Excited to see my forthcoming book (PhD dissertation) on @routledgebooks.bsky.social: Silver, Spices, and the Slave Trade. The Coymans Family and Dutch Entrepreneurship in the Spanish Americas (1580-1700). It will be published in December 2026. www.routledge.com/Silver-Spice...

Silver, Spices, and the Slave Trade: The Coymans Family and Dutch Entrepreneurship in the Spanish Americas (1580-1700)

Silver, Spices, and the Slave Trade: The Coymans Family and Dutch Entrepreneurship in the Spanish Americas (1580-1700) explains how Amsterdam entrepreneurs, specifically the Coymans family, built prof...

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Did you know that #Elizabethans kept Andean guinea pigs as pets? In this extract from #AGoldenWorld for Unseen Histories, I trace some of the parrots, monkeys, crocodiles, boars, flying squirrels & other Atlantic creatures in English parks & country houses: www.unseenhistories.com/the-tudor-an...

Excited for my #AGoldenWorld book talk at Toppings & Co in #York this Sept. Please come along! www.toppingbooks.co.uk/events/york/... We'll be a stone's throw from where Stuart kings & queens once lodged, to discuss their unexpected connections to Colombian emeralds & Caribbean go-betweens.

Lauren Working for A Golden World at The Bookshop, York

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‘Chapters explore, among other things, the transatlantic histories of sealskin parkas, 𝘙𝘢𝘬í𝘰𝘤𝘬 canoes, Aztec illuminated manuscripts, Colombian emeralds and beaver hats.’ Clare Jackson on an account of American influence on English material culture in the Renaissance. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Clare Jackson · Jaguars over the Seine: Early Modern Americana

The ‘incredible iridescence’ of American feathered headdresses, artworks, shields and wall hangings attracted...

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Please share! A rare PhD studentship @kingshistory.bsky.social *fully* funded by @slaveryinwar.bsky.social to work with myself and Maeve Ryan, supported by a broader community of experts in Caribbean history, transatlantic slavery, and the history of war. www.kcl.ac.uk/study/fundin... 🗃️

AHRC Studentship: Slavery and the Seven Years’ War within and across the Caribbean Archipelago | King's College London

The Leverhulme Centre for Research on Slavery in War (CRSW) is pleased to announce the availability of a fully funded AHRC doctoral studentship, to be jointly supervised across History and War Studies

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Amazing to see #AGoldenWorld reviewed in the LRB this week, very well placed next to an Anne Carson poem and an advert for coffee & baked goods. My thanks to Clare Jackson for engaging so thoroughly with the book. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4... #earlymodern #Tudor #Jacobean

‘A public engagement ethos informs Lauren Working’s book in its attempt to counter “the near total erasure of Native peoples from English history”.’ Clare Jackson on an account of American influence on English material culture in the Renaissance. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Clare Jackson · Jaguars over the Seine: Early Modern Americana

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‘The “incredible iridescence” of American feathered headdresses, artworks, shields and wall hangings attracted Jacobean collectors too. In early modern England, “people were surrounded by feathers all the time”.’ Clare Jackson on American influence on English life. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Clare Jackson · Jaguars over the Seine: Early Modern Americana

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‘In English markets, items misleadingly claiming to be made entirely from desirable North American beaver pelts might turn out to include lower-grade rabbit fur.’ Clare Jackson on an account of American influence on English material culture in the Renaissance. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Clare Jackson · Jaguars over the Seine: Early Modern Americana

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What unites Mary, Queen of Scots and Jonathan Anderson? Both have been inspired to bring a little South American creature into their art. Before the #Dior armadillo bag, Mary stitched one in silk to pass the time during her long imprisonment.

An Algonquian word list from the University of York's edition of John Smith's The Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles (1624) @uoyborthwick.bsky.social 'Because many doe desire to know the manner of their language, I have inserted these few words'.

My review of Lauren Working's 'A Golden World' will be in August's BBC History Extra. It's a brilliant book, and the review is the first time in print that I've called myself a historian (I've only been thinking and writing about the 'English' Atlantic and EIC for 13+ years pre-PhD).

Today is the Faber summer party AND the release of #AGoldenWorld in the US! Featured here with a few 17th century objects — a tobacco pipe & engraving of pearl divers. www.simonandschuster.com/books/A-Gold... #Tudors #earlymodern

A GOLDEN WORLD is out today in the US with Pegasus Books! This glittering new history of how the Americas transformed the Tudors and Stuarts provides a fresh understanding the cultural exchange between the “Old” and “New” worlds. A huge congratulations to @laurenworking.bsky.social 🥳

Incidentally there is a great chapter in @laurenworking.bsky.social's new book on the origins of and exploitation of emeralds (slightly earlier). I also just saw a 'best Beaver Hatt', another travelling object you can read about in 'A Golden World: How the Americas Transformed Renaissance England'.

Brutal day yesterday so today: rings. I've struck gold in the will of Jane Tutchin, a London widow whose will was proved in 1665. Jane included 'A note of things in my Cyprus Box' - a nice example of the way that wills allow us to see inside spaces in the past that we can't usually look into.

St. Mary Magdalene Penitent, 2nd half of C17th, attributed to #MariedeLIncarnation (née #MarieGuyart; French-born Quebecois, 1599-1672). Held by the Musée des Ursulines de Québec; source, www.aci-iac.ca/art-books/qu... #artherstory #womenartists #QuebecNationalDay #Fêtenationaleduquébec

A white stag trotting past the Jacobean mansion at Knole @nationaltrust.org.uk this morning. Through the heat haze, a 400-year-old view into the past. #earlymodern #sevenoaks

'Working demonstrates that, in fact, much of what we imagine to be the typical Renaissance and baroque aesthetic can be linked to influences emerging from the Americas.' The New Statesman reviews A Golden World by @laurenworking.bsky.social ✨

Sensing the 17th Century: Smelling Vanilla and Listening to Chocolate: a blog post about @susannah-lw.bsky.social and @laurenworking.bsky.social's #StudentSalon cabinet outing with @willtullett.bsky.social in the atmospheric @merchantshallyork.org at @yorkfestofideas.bsky.social buff.ly/FMMVRqN

New episode of the Royal Studies Network podcast - Host Susannah Lyon-Whaley interviews @laurenworking.bsky.social on her newly published book, A Golden World, which illuminates how the Americas became a visible and material presence in English culture. www.buzzsprout.com/1934722/epis...

Happy birthday to James VI & I, whose lesser-know quirks & achievements include: -purchasing two dozen fashionable beaver hats in a single year of his reign -forcing courtiers to find him a Virginian flying squirrel -tearing down tobacco houses near his country estate #AGoldenWorld #earlymodern

Thank you @unseenhistories.com for a lovely #AGoldenWorld recommendation: 'beautifully researched and tenderly written'. uk.bookshop.org/p/books/a-go...

Unseen Histories@unseenhistories.com · 2mo ago

From Alexander the Great to the Great Exhibition, the South Seas to Iran, here are our picks for June, with books from @andreawulf.bsky.social, @yjtorbati.bsky.social, @laurenworking.bsky.social and many more👇 (with apologies for the late posting!)

From Alexander the Great to the Great Exhibition, the South Seas to Iran, here are our picks for June, with books from @andreawulf.bsky.social, @yjtorbati.bsky.social, @laurenworking.bsky.social and many more👇 (with apologies for the late posting!)

New History Books for June 2026 - Unseen Histories

Our pick of new history books for June. From Alexander the Great to the Great Exhibition, the South Seas to Iran

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Opening next week, 'Hold to This Earth' at Yorkshire Sculpture Park features nearly 70 pieces by 38 artists, which represent 35 Tribal Nations. It's the largest presentation of American Indigenous work in the U.K. to date. www.thisiscolossal.com/2026/06/hold...

Haven't had the chance to visit @raremags.bsky.social in Stockport yet, but what a lovely way to present my book – cover looking gloriously golden, and there are a few sneak peeks at the chapters & illustrations, too! raremags.co.uk/products/a-g...

A Golden World – Rare Mags

"From rumours of lost Amazonian cities of gold to the silver running through the mountains of Bolivia, hopes for dazzling wealth fuelled the imperial fantasies of the Tudors and Stuarts. But while sto...

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Thrilled to review two terrific books in this week’s @newstatesman1913.bsky.social: A Golden World by @laurenworking.bsky.social and This Little World by @rentravailer.bsky.social - both expanding our ideas about “insular” Tudor England in fascinating ways.

Thank you @cjfaraday.bsky.social for this New Statesman review of #AGoldenWorld alongside Nandini Das’ This Little World! #earlymodern 🦜

Faber Books@faberbooks.bsky.social · 2mo ago

'Working demonstrates that, in fact, much of what we imagine to be the typical Renaissance and baroque aesthetic can be linked to influences emerging from the Americas.' The New Statesman reviews A Golden World by @laurenworking.bsky.social ✨

Looking ahead to what promises to be a landmark gathering next year. It's the *60th anniversary* of @srsrensoc.bsky.social , the conference is taking place at the @warburginstitute.bsky.social, and the theme is explicitly inviting us to move beyond limits... Cannot wait - spread widely!!!!!

The Warburg Institute@warburginstitute.bsky.social · 3mo ago

*Call for Papers* @srsrensoc.bsky.social has announced its next #conference. 'The Renaissance beyond Borders' frames the #Renaissance as a dynamic, interconnected process that transcends the chrono-geographical limitations of a fixed European moment. Share your paper ➡️ rensoc.org.uk/cfp/12th-bie...

I had lots of fun putting together a recommended reading list for @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social on how #Tudor history can intersect with Indigenous studies. Ovid, Montaigne, and Donne alongside the wonderful Natalie Diaz, @madelinesayet.bsky.social & others!

Faber Books@faberbooks.bsky.social · 2mo ago

A Golden World author and historian Lauren Working shares some recommended reading for understanding the relationship between the Americas and the English Renaissance. Discover the full list on @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social 📚 uk.bookshop.org/lists/renais...