Early modernist at the University of York | Author of A GOLDEN WORLD (Faber, 2026) | TEMPEST for Oxford World's Classics (2024) | BBC Radio 3 New Gen Thinker | Rep'd by Emma Bal at Madeleine Milburn.https://bsky.app/profile/laurenworking.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/laurenworking.bsky.social/post/3mkzfxqamck26#AGoldenWorld is out in exactly one month! Please consider pre-ordering for a friend or library. The book is the culmination of my decade-long obsession with researching traces of the Americas in Renaissance London: https://www.faber.co.uk/product/9780571393831-a-golden-world/ #earlymodern #Tudors04 May 2026 09:59 +0000at://did:plc:win55lp7g2f6qdnfsrfkun2n/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkzfxqamck26https://bsky.app/profile/laurenworking.bsky.social/post/3mk3jhpuq3k22Pearl, heart, skull, & lock of hair -- this amazing, incredibly poignant memento mori pendant, depicted in a mourning portrait, has actually survived! [contains quote post or other embedded content]22 Apr 2026 12:41 +0000at://did:plc:win55lp7g2f6qdnfsrfkun2n/app.bsky.feed.post/3mk3jhpuq3k22https://bsky.app/profile/laurenworking.bsky.social/post/3mjcku3fe6c2vThis is so cool and I can’t wait to see it on display at the National Portrait Gallery. Really fascinating to see this kind of rare double portrait with male figures. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm2rwpmwkggo12 Apr 2026 14:30 +0000at://did:plc:win55lp7g2f6qdnfsrfkun2n/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjcku3fe6c2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/laurenworking.bsky.social/post/3miyv24tkk22zsão paolo & fazenda itaguaçu08 Apr 2026 18:05 +0000at://did:plc:win55lp7g2f6qdnfsrfkun2n/app.bsky.feed.post/3miyv24tkk22zhttps://bsky.app/profile/laurenworking.bsky.social/post/3milq3zjlxc2wSpotted at the Museu de Arte de São Paulo: Sandra Gamarra Heshiki’s collage of European portraits painted over with Indigenous South American pottery, collapsing longstanding divides between European high art and Indigenous ‘anthropology’ in museums. #earlymodern03 Apr 2026 12:32 +0000at://did:plc:win55lp7g2f6qdnfsrfkun2n/app.bsky.feed.post/3milq3zjlxc2whttps://bsky.app/profile/laurenworking.bsky.social/post/3mihnkwow2s2msunset in Brazil01 Apr 2026 21:36 +0000at://did:plc:win55lp7g2f6qdnfsrfkun2n/app.bsky.feed.post/3mihnkwow2s2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/laurenworking.bsky.social/post/3mgsfuoxbzc2ethink it's fair to say that I need these pixelated/oversized 17th still life prints from the Dries Van Noten FW26 show. #earlymodern11 Mar 2026 17:28 +0000at://did:plc:win55lp7g2f6qdnfsrfkun2n/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgsfuoxbzc2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/laurenworking.bsky.social/post/3mgpj7lop7s23it was a real pain not being able to get into the Banqueting House while researching a recent article (https://britishartstudies.ac.uk/issues/29/kings-banqueting-houses/), but how amazing that it's now possible to get this much closer to Rubens' ceiling paintings! [contains quote post or other embedded content]10 Mar 2026 13:49 +0000at://did:plc:win55lp7g2f6qdnfsrfkun2n/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgpj7lop7s23https://bsky.app/profile/laurenworking.bsky.social/post/3mfjhrww2422fMy proofs have arrived and #AGoldenWorld is now available to preorder! How did Indigenous peoples and knowledge enter into Tudor & Stuart art, literature, and fashion – and at what cost? https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/a-golden-world-how-the-americas-transformed-renaissance-england-lauren-working/67c60316d60d6557?ean=9780571393831&next=t #earlymodern #Tudors [contains quote post or other embedded content]23 Feb 2026 10:43 +0000at://did:plc:win55lp7g2f6qdnfsrfkun2n/app.bsky.feed.post/3mfjhrww2422fhttps://bsky.app/profile/laurenworking.bsky.social/post/3mdirzxgaus2qI love Jonathan Anderson anyway and now he is BRINGING RUFFS back to menswear #earlymodern28 Jan 2026 17:23 +0000at://did:plc:win55lp7g2f6qdnfsrfkun2n/app.bsky.feed.post/3mdirzxgaus2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/laurenworking.bsky.social/post/3mbqmu7y2vs2rIn Switzerland for Epiphany which means my first galette des rois in decades 🍐👑 ❄️06 Jan 2026 09:21 +0000at://did:plc:win55lp7g2f6qdnfsrfkun2n/app.bsky.feed.post/3mbqmu7y2vs2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/laurenworking.bsky.social/post/3madke5nm7k2z✨ New open access issue of British Art Studies! ✨ Offering a phenomenal reappraisal of James VI and I's artistic legacy, ed. Kate Anderson, @jemmafield.bsky.social, & Catriona Murray. My piece offers a transatlantic perspective on James' banqueting houses: https://britishartstudies.ac.uk/issues/29/kings-banqueting-houses/19 Dec 2025 11:07 +0000at://did:plc:win55lp7g2f6qdnfsrfkun2n/app.bsky.feed.post/3madke5nm7k2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/laurenworking.bsky.social/post/3m7s4cmlsmc24Christmas come early! Congrats @starcrossed2018.bsky.social on such a dazzling book about colour, folds, fabrics, silken strings, and what all this means for language ✂️12 Dec 2025 12:40 +0000at://did:plc:win55lp7g2f6qdnfsrfkun2n/app.bsky.feed.post/3m7s4cmlsmc24https://bsky.app/profile/laurenworking.bsky.social/post/3m6h26r5lts22Swimming in #goldenworld copyedits this week & thinking a lot about supply chains & modern waste colonialism. For anyone interested in labour & craft in our own fashion system, this is such a good Wardrobe Crisis episode on the evils of super fast fashion: https://thewardrobecrisis.com/podcast/ep-231-inside-shein25 Nov 2025 09:38 +0000at://did:plc:win55lp7g2f6qdnfsrfkun2n/app.bsky.feed.post/3m6h26r5lts22https://bsky.app/profile/laurenworking.bsky.social/post/3m4dmnfnzts2hOn this day in 1611 — days before the first recorded performance of Shakespeare’s Tempest — the inauguration of a new Lord Mayor of London involved an elaborate pageant featuring English subjects dressed up as Indigenous Americans ‘from the rich and Golden Indian mines’. #goldenworld29 Oct 2025 14:07 +0000at://did:plc:win55lp7g2f6qdnfsrfkun2n/app.bsky.feed.post/3m4dmnfnzts2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/laurenworking.bsky.social/post/3m2lrogarj22gDelighted to share some initial research that Stephanie Pratt (Crow Creek Dakota) & I have started at Knole @researchnt.bsky.social. How can its transatlantic connections also centre Indigenous presence? What new interpretation might such frameworks allow? https://www.historyworkshop.org.uk/indigenous-history/indigenous-plant-stories-in-an-english-treasure-house/07 Oct 2025 09:08 +0000at://did:plc:win55lp7g2f6qdnfsrfkun2n/app.bsky.feed.post/3m2lrogarj22g