A lovely evening yesterday at Oxford’s Divinity School, toasting @rentravailer.bsky.social’s new book, This Little World. A perk was getting to revisit this 1662 chair, reputedly made from the timbers of Francis Drake’s ship, the Golden Hind, that circumnavigated the globe in 1577-1580.
There are some real heavy hitters from the Native art world in this upcoming show at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park.
Terrific review in @historytoday.com for new books from @rentravailer.bsky.social and @laurenworking.bsky.social. I'm looking forward to reading both of them. www.historytoday.com/archive/revi...
Discover how the Americas transformed early modern England is this glittering new history from award-winning historian @laurenworking.bsky.social.
A Golden World is out now in hardback ✨
As the largest display of Native North American art ever seen in Britain arrives in Yorkshire, its artists are asking timely questions about their history, our planet, and humanity’s place within it
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Two recent books – 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 16th- and 17...
Yes! This book very much invites these comparisons.
thank you!
Thank you! 🌻
Lauren Working
Here is a page from the index, giving a snapshot of what a different kind of Tudor history can look like.
An Algonquian elder next to Drake. Elizabeth’s jousting champion, the Earl of Cumberland, near entries for Cumanagoto & Cusco. Oaxaca near Ovid, Oxford. St Kitt’s, Shakespeare, shell, sugar.
