Worlds upon worlds. Come and join the wonderful @laurenworking.bsky.social and yours truly under the mighty @srsrensoc.bsky.social Phoenix on 26 October, a day before the North American launch of #thislittleworld from @yalepress.bsky.social

Society for Renaissance Studies@srsrensoc.bsky.social · 6d ago

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

If you're in London this evening, join us in the magnificent Lady Chapel at Westminster Abbey, where I'll be speaking to Kavita Puri about travellers and exiles, Venetians waxing ecstatic about English food, and the making of England. #tlw

Nandini Das@rentravailer.bsky.social · 2mo ago

And then in London on 2 September with Kavita Puri www.westminster-abbey.org/abbey-events...

Really looking forward to this.

Chloe Fairbanks@fairbanc.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Even more thrilling is the keynote paper by @chloehouston.bsky.social and a keynote In Conversation on This Little World with @rentravailer.bsky.social - I'm biased, but you don't want to miss this!

Ooo there's a webpage up for my little book Listening to #EarlyModern Travel Writing, and I see that expected publication is 6 October! Exciting! 🗃️ www.cambridge.org/core/element...

Edinburgh friends -- looking forward to seeing you all tomorrow (21 August) when @samiraahmeduk.bsky.social and I talk about #thislittleworld www.edbookfest.co.uk/events/nandi...

5000 jobs set to be lost in UKHE in this year alone. 10,000s already lost since Covid-19, the sector on its knees. Yet the UKHE story dominating the Guardian's reporting is the psychodrama at Cambridge. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Dons call for Cambridge leaders to take blame for Jason Arday appointment

Exclusive: Academics call for inquiry, saying university must be held accountable for ‘grotesque racism unleashed’

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Are you interested in developing genuinely interdisciplinary piece of research? Applications for the International Interdisciplinary Research Projects, focused on the theme of ‘Mobilities’ are now open. Apply now: https://bit.ly/4y9wiwJ

I'm so delighted to have this exceptional volume in the series! Thank you for entrusting us with it, @emiliekmmurphy.bsky.social

Emilie K. M. Murphy@emiliekmmurphy.bsky.social · 3mo ago

proofs! 😍

You can get the researcher away from research, but can't get the research away from the researcher. 🧵

Huge few days for us at @britishacademy.bsky.social as we’ve brought issues of the humanities into the public eye with different stories in the Times, Guardian and FT. Well done to all my colleagues for the hard work that makes this happen

This is on Monday 20 July. If you are in London, do join us.

The Japan Society@thejapansociety.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Just a few spaces remain at next week's lecture! 📣 Join us as Nandini Das examines the uneasy meeting between John Saris, Captain of The Clove, and William Adams, the 'English Samurai', in 1613 🇬🇧🇯🇵 Find out more and book 👉 https://loom.ly/KiL0wAY

I've spent a delightful day speaking about #thislittleworld at Norwich History Festival, so I'm late to say how delighted and honoured I am that this happened: www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/fellows/prof.... It's a real privilege.

Professor Nandini Das FBA

Early modern literature and cultural history; sixteenth and seventeenth century travel writing; cross-cultural encounters, mobility, race, and identity; scholarly editing.

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So a key question now is whether the new @andyburnham.bsky.social led administration will take the higher education funding crisis seriously as a threat to his aspirations around regional growth and skills…

Advance notice of the British Academy reports published to be tomorrow (Wednesday) and their findings. It does not make happy reading if you value UK higher education and research.

Hetan Shah@hetanshah.bsky.social · 3mo ago

‘Thousands of university job cuts in humanities and social sciences are creating widespread cold spots for languages, classics and theology degrees, the British Academy has warned’ www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Society for Renaissance Studies: Two scholarships of £4,000 each, to contribute to the costs of postgraduate study. rensoc.org.uk/apply/schola...

From today’s Times letters page. #DefendExeterUni

An open letter, to readers, about Charity and Sylvia. I am very pained to feel the need to write this. #queerhistory #pride

Join us on Monday 20 July for a fascinating lecture with Nandini Das, who will examine the uneasy meeting between John Saris, Captain of the first English vessel to reach Japan, The Clove, and William Adams, the 'English Samurai' 🇬🇧🇯🇵 Find out more and book 👉 https://loom.ly/KiL0wAY

Very touched by Peter Marshall's review of This Little World in the latest @historytoday.com, his recognition of its 'bittersweet ironies' and what studying the past can tell us about belonging.

History Today@historytoday.com · 5mo ago

This Little World: A New History of Tudor and Stuart England by Nandini Das and A Golden World: How the Americas Transformed Renaissance England by Lauren Working put England on the map. ✍️ Peter Marshall reviews the recent #history books buff.ly/1uweMP8

It's publication day! This Little World begins with a sixteenth-century refugee writing from Norwich to his wife abroad. It ends in the aftermath of civil war and revolution, asking what belonging and identity might mean in a world shaped by migration, empire and violence. (1/4)

One more day before I talk about This Little World at the V&A with the brilliant @alexvont.bsky.social A fitting place to talk about immigrant painters at the Tudor court, cabinets of curiosities in Kensington, and the global origins of what later came to be imagined as 'English' culture.

One of the figures at the centre of This Little World is Levina Teerlinc, a painter from Bruges who spent decades at the Tudor court, quietly surviving Henry VIII, Edward VI, Mary I and Elizabeth I — which, when one considers the survival rates of Tudor courtiers, sounds like a superpower. (1/4)

Very grateful for the early responses to This Little World. John Guy in Literary Review @litreview.bsky.social: literaryreview.co.uk/concerning-s...

John Guy - Concerning Strangers

John Guy: Concerning Strangers - This Little World: A New History of Tudor and Stuart England by Nandini Das

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average online discussion tbh

UK-based friends, is anyone here based in or near Norwich who may be willing to snap a quick photo of a memorial stone for me? Please DM me if you can!

I don’t come on here very often anymore, but just wanted to say this: I spent the morning doing something that reminded me why I love this work — thinking through the generous, thoughtful comments on two chapters of the next book from two deeply kind and incredibly smart readers.

Bye forever, WeTransfer.

WeTransfer just changed their TOS giving themselves permission to train AI on any content you transfer and produce derivative works based on content you transfer that they are allowed to monetize and you are not allowed payment for. Stop using WeTransfer.

Dr Joanne Paul has a way with words in reminding us why history is important for today. A great read.