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.
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 ✨
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...
Lauren Working
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...
There are some real heavy hitters from the Native art world in this upcoming show at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park.
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
