English prof, Oxford. Author and broadcaster. Early modern literature, history, and cross-cultural encounters. Fuelled by tea.
Nandini Das
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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.
It's also publication day for @laurenworking.bsky.social's brilliant A Golden World, reviewed alongside it. Delighted to see these two books -- the seeds of both of which were sown through the ERC_TIDE research project -- in conversation about how global encounters reshaped early modern England.
Between those moments lie people who seem to belong to entirely different worlds:
a Flemish refugee baffled by English food,immigrant artists painting Tudor monarchs, an Ottoman court official from Bristol, an English samurai in Japan, irritable gardeners in (2/4)
Lambeth sourcing plants from Russia and Virginia and Turkey that now seem quintessentially English, court cases over freedom and birthright in colonial America, and a great many travellers, exiles, translators and scholars.
A history of England told through movement across borders and worlds. (3/4)
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/this-litt... (4/4)
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)
