Early modernist at the University of York | 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/3mtlowr65sc27I'll be giving a tour of some of the art & spaces at Queen's House, Greenwich, for the @forarthistory.org.uk Art History Festival in October. It's a free event, please spread the word and come along if you can! https://festival.forarthistory.org.uk/event/pearls-sugar-tobacco-flowers-english-queens-in-an-atlantic-world/ #earlymodern #AGoldenWorld21 Aug 2026 11:49 +0000at://did:plc:win55lp7g2f6qdnfsrfkun2n/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtlowr65sc27https://bsky.app/profile/laurenworking.bsky.social/post/3mt6vsumfuk2zHad to do a double take when I saw Literary Review’s August cover. I love that #AGoldenWorld inspired Chris Riddell’s image of a smoking gentleman & his sunflower, leaning against a cabinet. And the headline goes straight to the point: ‘What the New World Did for Us’. @faberbooks.bsky.social16 Aug 2026 09:47 +0000at://did:plc:win55lp7g2f6qdnfsrfkun2n/app.bsky.feed.post/3mt6vsumfuk2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/laurenworking.bsky.social/post/3msxdig6lbs2nHave really enjoyed hearing about @brettrushforth.bsky.social & Chris Hodson’s new history of the French Atlantic, here & elsewhere — stunning archival & geographic breadth, and lots too about the impact of encounter on 16th/17th century France (such as the Black boatmen at Louis XIV’s Versailles). [contains quote post or other embedded content]13 Aug 2026 09:31 +0000at://did:plc:win55lp7g2f6qdnfsrfkun2n/app.bsky.feed.post/3msxdig6lbs2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/laurenworking.bsky.social/post/3mssd75s2ak2kDesperately wish I could go see this! https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8xn7p7gxwyo11 Aug 2026 09:42 +0000at://did:plc:win55lp7g2f6qdnfsrfkun2n/app.bsky.feed.post/3mssd75s2ak2khttps://bsky.app/profile/laurenworking.bsky.social/post/3msaqj5cxgc2hDid you know that #Elizabethans kept Andean guinea pigs as pets? In this extract from #AGoldenWorld for Unseen Histories, I trace some of the parrots, monkeys, crocodiles, boars, flying squirrels & other Atlantic creatures in English parks & country houses: https://www.unseenhistories.com/the-tudor-and-stuart-craze-for-wonderous-american-animals/04 Aug 2026 09:52 +0000at://did:plc:win55lp7g2f6qdnfsrfkun2n/app.bsky.feed.post/3msaqj5cxgc2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/laurenworking.bsky.social/post/3msaok7o2xc2pExcited for my #AGoldenWorld book talk at Toppings & Co in #York this Sept. Please come along! https://www.toppingbooks.co.uk/events/york/lauren-working-a-golden-world/ We'll be a stone's throw from where Stuart kings & queens once lodged, to discuss their unexpected connections to Colombian emeralds & Caribbean go-betweens.04 Aug 2026 09:17 +0000at://did:plc:win55lp7g2f6qdnfsrfkun2n/app.bsky.feed.post/3msaok7o2xc2phttps://bsky.app/profile/laurenworking.bsky.social/post/3mr7yi6wdws2eAmazing to see #AGoldenWorld reviewed in the LRB this week, very well placed next to an Anne Carson poem and an advert for coffee & baked goods. My thanks to Clare Jackson for engaging so thoroughly with the book. https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v48/n13/clare-jackson/jaguars-over-the-seine #earlymodern #Tudor #Jacobean22 Jul 2026 09:17 +0000at://did:plc:win55lp7g2f6qdnfsrfkun2n/app.bsky.feed.post/3mr7yi6wdws2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/laurenworking.bsky.social/post/3mqrgk7w5n222What unites Mary, Queen of Scots and Jonathan Anderson? Both have been inspired to bring a little South American creature into their art. Before the #Dior armadillo bag, Mary stitched one in silk to pass the time during her long imprisonment.16 Jul 2026 14:19 +0000at://did:plc:win55lp7g2f6qdnfsrfkun2n/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqrgk7w5n222https://bsky.app/profile/laurenworking.bsky.social/post/3mqocaeylm22bAn Algonquian word list from the University of York's edition of John Smith's The Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles (1624) @uoyborthwick.bsky.social 'Because many doe desire to know the manner of their language, I have inserted these few words'.15 Jul 2026 08:24 +0000at://did:plc:win55lp7g2f6qdnfsrfkun2n/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqocaeylm22bhttps://bsky.app/profile/laurenworking.bsky.social/post/3mq2palcdcs25Today is the Faber summer party AND the release of #AGoldenWorld in the US! Featured here with a few 17th century objects — a tobacco pipe & engraving of pearl divers. https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/A-Golden-World/Lauren-Working/9798897100248 #Tudors #earlymodern07 Jul 2026 13:23 +0000at://did:plc:win55lp7g2f6qdnfsrfkun2n/app.bsky.feed.post/3mq2palcdcs25https://bsky.app/profile/laurenworking.bsky.social/post/3mox5nhkndc2aA white stag trotting past the Jacobean mansion at Knole @nationaltrust.org.uk this morning. Through the heat haze, a 400-year-old view into the past. #earlymodern #sevenoaks23 Jun 2026 10:05 +0000at://did:plc:win55lp7g2f6qdnfsrfkun2n/app.bsky.feed.post/3mox5nhkndc2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/laurenworking.bsky.social/post/3mon4pzljw22tHappy birthday to James VI & I, whose lesser-know quirks & achievements include: -purchasing two dozen fashionable beaver hats in a single year of his reign -forcing courtiers to find him a Virginian flying squirrel -tearing down tobacco houses near his country estate #AGoldenWorld #earlymodern19 Jun 2026 10:22 +0000at://did:plc:win55lp7g2f6qdnfsrfkun2n/app.bsky.feed.post/3mon4pzljw22t