Pearl, heart, skull, & lock of hair -- this amazing, incredibly poignant memento mori pendant, depicted in a mourning portrait, has actually survived!

This 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. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

são paolo & fazenda itaguaçu

Spotted 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. #earlymodern

sunset in Brazil

think it's fair to say that I need these pixelated/oversized 17th still life prints from the Dries Van Noten FW26 show. #earlymodern

it was a real pain not being able to get into the Banqueting House while researching a recent article (britishartstudies.ac.uk/issues/29/ki...), but how amazing that it's now possible to get this much closer to Rubens' ceiling paintings!

In person early modern metals event in London next month with me, @laurenworking.bsky.social, and Lubaaba Al-Azami. Please repost and share widely! And register here -- forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...

this astounding object is rightly getting a lot of attention - if you're interested in what Indigenous American objects are doing in England, @laurenworking.bsky.social's forthcoming book is for you uk.bookshop.org/p/books/a-go...

Marking my calendar now!!

My 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? uk.bookshop.org/p/books/a-go... #earlymodern #Tudors

Proofs just in for A Golden World, featuring our glorious cover artwork ✨ A glittering new history of how the Americas transformed early modern England from award-winning historian @laurenworking.bsky.social, A Golden World is out 18 June and available to pre-order now. linktr.ee/agoldenworld

Another win for #LANDBACK! The Washoe Tribe of Nevada and California acquired 10,274 acres of their ancestral homelands in California. The Tribe was forcibly removed from these lands during the state-funded “extermination” of California Natives in the 1850s.

I just chaired a discussion for BBC radio on The Last of the Mohicans, Indigenous futurities, and US settler colonialism with some awesome people, including academics and Indigenous authors, that should drop soon. Stay tuned! Related to this adaptation, which I advised in its early development.

I love Jonathan Anderson anyway and now he is BRINGING RUFFS back to menswear #earlymodern

🚨 Two @rarebookschool.bsky.social courses coming to York in July! @wordsmith.bsky.social 'The Culture & Craft of Wood Type' & @jenniebatchelor.bsky.social 'The Rise of Periodical Print Culture' rarebookschool.org/courses/typo... rarebookschool.org/courses/hist... 🗃️ #bookhistory #earlymodern #18thC

Congratulations to Professor Emma Smith @oldfortunatus.bsky.social who has been awarded a three-year Major Research Fellowship by the Leverhulme Trust for her project: ‘Imperial bibliography: books, race and value’. Find out more about the project on our website:

In Switzerland for Epiphany which means my first galette des rois in decades 🍐👑 ❄️

✨ 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: britishartstudies.ac.uk/issues/29/ki...

Christmas come early! Congrats @starcrossed2018.bsky.social on such a dazzling book about colour, folds, fabrics, silken strings, and what all this means for language ✂️

Swimming 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: thewardrobecrisis.com/podcast/ep-2...

Several Indigenous short films will be streamed for free by the National Museum of the American Indian from November 21 (5 PM ET) to November 28, 2025 (5 PM ET). americanindian.si.edu/native-cinem...

Can't wait to see our #StudentSalon cabinet in action in the classroom for the first time later this week! Seems like the perfect time to reshare @laurenworking.bsky.social's blog post on why we created this with student partners over the summer blogs.york.ac.uk/student-salo...

Somewhat astonishingly, here it is, a book, a thing in the world... More, including acknowledgements, soon❤️

On 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’. #goldenworld

Delighted 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? www.historyworkshop.org.uk/indigenous-h...

What traces of Indigenous American history lie within English country houses? In our latest article, Lauren Working and Stephanie Pratt explore how trade and tobacco shaped a famous stately home. www.historyworkshop....

Congratulations Sarah Howe on a beautiful new book of poetry ✨

Such a joy to celebrate @cjfaraday.bsky.social’s new book, The Story of Tudor Art, at the Philip Mould Gallery this evening — the perfect setting to toast a stunning book that investigates the weird, wonderful world of Tudor artifice. I love that Esther Inglis appears next to the Great Bed of Ware.

Some of the most poignant objects were those fabrics w/ signs of wear. Stains, snags, tattered silks & linens— including one of Marie Antoinette’s prison chemises. Beyond the flashy, macaron-hued attention-grabbers, other textiles bring us to the fragility of the past. #marieantoinettestyle

Just loved squeezing in the Marie Antoinette Style exhibition the V&A today. A gorgeous, saccharine, portentous look at the French queen and 18th century court style/its afterlife. Which is also, really, about making - about artisans and ateliers and getting up close to intricate handiwork.

Bugs in salons?! Recent University of York graduate Mumia Douse-Bah's blog explores the colonial context of bugs and recounts a flea on a salon attendee's breast that spurred a 'poetic frenzy' 🐛🐜 @uoyenglishrl.bsky.social @laurenworking.bsky.social #StudentSalon blogs.york.ac.uk/student-salo...

An amazing headband made of dyed porcupine quills by an Indigenous person in the Great Lakes region around 1760. It is in such remarkable condition because it was kept in a Scottish castle for 250 years.

Over the summer, students worked with me & @susannah-lw.bsky.social on the #StudentSalon project, where they helped us assemble a cabinet of 17th & 18th century objects. Our webpage is now live and full of incredible, student-led resources - please check it out! blogs.york.ac.uk/student-salo...

Wampum beads excavated this summer season at Ferryland, a very early 17thC settlement under an hour drive along coast west of St John’s. Amazing site for preservation of stone structures and evidence of wide Atlantic trade networks. #EarlyModern #Archaeology

"While it may not be possible for a national archive in a settler colonial state to truly decolonize; an archive can look to Indigenous communities to lead the way in creating new ways to engage with the effects of colonization." Read about Project Naming's approach to reclaiming Inuit history.

Our collection, Mapping the Early Modern Inns of Court: Writing Communities, is being launched! Come and join us (in person at Middle Temple Library or online) at 6.15pm on Tuesday 9 Sept. Email [email protected] for more details. link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

My new book 📕 The Story of Tudor Art 🌹 comes out on 25th September. It’s the first book ever (!!) to look at art from across the whole sixteenth century in England and I can’t wait to share it with you.

New book out: Habsburg Encounters with Native America, with foreword by Anton Treuer and afterword by me! Open access! www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...

Off to an exciting and fascinating start to a day on Women’s Worlds, on global spaces in 17th and 18th century Britain. Thank you to @susannah-lw.bsky.social & @laurenworking.bsky.social for bringing together so many interesting perspectives and research from universities, museums & heritage sites.

felt fitting to pass the gold shops on Hatton Gardens on my way to discuss #GoldenWorld with my editor at the Faber offices today — a book full of treasure, bullion, and silver shillings making transatlantic crossings into Renaissance England

The large wrapped object in the centre of this picture is the only surviving Mi’gmaq seagoing birchbark canoe in the world, kept high above the ground in the cellar of an old Habsburg palace. It was sad to see it locked away here.

Such a gorgeous visit to the Queen’s House in Greenwich yesterday. An Inigo Jones masterpiece.

So excited by the #StudentSalon project led by @laurenworking.bsky.social and @susannah-lw.bsky.social. A brilliant research project between academic colleagues and our brilliant students!

In love with all our #StudentSalon cabinet objects, but perhaps most partial to our little 17th century silver spoon with the carved handle resembling coral, + the trade bead, kept alongside a page about Guinea pepper from John Gerard’s Herbal (1597). #museums

Cabinet assembly day for our #StudentSalon @uoyenglishrl.bsky.social! With @susannah-lw.bsky.social and our marvellous student partners Mumia, Rachel, and Daisy.

So glad I made it to the Santiago Yahuarcani exhibition at the #WhitworthGallery today. Yahuarcani (Uitoto Nation) paints the connections between plant, human, and animal life on llanchama, a traditional bark cloth. This is his first international solo exhibition.

‘A young fella like me doesn’t want to make traditional paintings’: how Indigenous art swept the UK

Very proud to announce our new volume on The Dutch Americas: Art histories of the Atlantic World - 11 essays that are ALL open access by a truly fantastic group of emerging and established scholars : brill.com/view/journal...