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...

if you would like to read about early modern hammocks, it's publication day for the article the brilliant @marcynorton.bsky.social and I wrote about them! (open access) link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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...

Our cabinet has arrived and she’s a beauty! I’ve been working with student interns & @susannah-lw.bsky.social on our #StudentSalon project and all sorts of 17th and 18th century objects are headed our way — fabrics, engravings, a Dutch tile, maybe even a bug or two…

Merch for our Teaching Indigenous Histories and Perspectives in Schools conference on Saturday! Can’t wait to meet everyone. 😊 If you can’t make it, resources and future events will soon be up on our website. Do let me know if you’d like to join our mailing list! www.sheffield.ac.uk/hpdh/researc...

In a win for Indigenous sovereignty in Canada, the Heiltsuk Nation in British Columbia has formally adopted its own constitution. It enshrines the power of both elected members and hereditary chiefs, and shifts control back to the community. buff.ly/Ob4SwUR. #ShareGoodNewsToo

Today is the last day to sign up for our Teaching Indigenous Histories and Perspectives in Schools conference next Saturday! onlineshop.shef.ac.uk/conferences-... It's only £10 including catering and we have travel bursaries available. Do join our project and be part of our teaching community!

Next month at the Weltmuseum in Vienna, both in-person and online, I’ll be speaking about Habsburg collections of Indigenous belongings from the Americas.

An afternoon at Thin Ice Press for @yorkfestofideas.bsky.social, with a chance to hear more about Marie Curie postdoc @susannah-lw.bsky.social’s work on 17th century women, botany, print. With a little print resurrection of the potato of Canada…

Don’t forget to register for the Teaching Indigenous Histories and Perspectives conference on 28 June. Only £10, with follow—up support for your school and travel bursaries available!

Next Friday! CEMS Colloquium on #earlymodern war narratives. Join us for a day of panels. kingsearlymodern.co.uk/events/lamen... @kingsartshums.bsky.social @kingsenglish.bsky.social @kingshistory.bsky.social

always a joy to visit Knole for a bit of research @nationaltrust.org.uk 🦌 🐆

This @historyworkshop.org.uk series looks fab! York's @ciscstudies.bsky.social is just taking off, but the goal is to form some kind of network within early modern studies for all this, too.

How can we better approach the histories of Indigenous peoples? Mary Katherine Newman introduces a new History Workshop series which will introduce a range of scholars, educators, and activists and the ways in which they examine Indigenous histories. www.historyworkshop....

We’re open today from 11am to 4pm at King’s Manor for the Great CECS Book Sale. Come by to support our brilliant postgraduate community in person or online at our crowdfunding page: yustart.hubbub.net/p/CECSbooks/...

Postdoctoral Research Associate in Early Modern History, Material Culture & Heritage- 1 yr research post working on ‘Knotted Histories: Early Modern Global Carpets, Global Exchange and the Public Country House’ - University of Oxford - Faculty of English #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNC287/p...

It's in print! My & @emilylsteve.bsky.social's chapter on how the Middle Temple's chambers, libraries, hall, and chapel became spaces of global exchange. Part of a wonderful new volume on Mapping the Early Modern Inns of Court, ed. @jackiewatson05.bsky.social & @emmakrhatigan.bsky.social.

Excited to say that Teaching Indigenous Histories and Perspectives in Schools (TIHPS) now has an official website! www.sheffield.ac.uk/hpdh/researc... UK history teachers, do join us at our launch conference on 28 June (only £10 inc catering, bursaries available)! www.sheffield.ac.uk/hpdh/researc...

This is a truly brilliant project that partners UK teachers with Indigenous scholars and experts. Teachers, I'd thoroughly recommend having a look & keeping an eye to the resources to come on how to add Indigenous/First Nations stories & perspectives in your teaching of British & American history 👇

New article! 'Seeing Women in the Early English and Dutch East India Companies' is now available as an Advance Article with Historical Research. It's been years of work, but I'm proud of this one. I hope #earlymodern #skystorians enjoy it! Some context below: academic.oup.com/histres/adva...