PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
Lauren Working is a lecturer in Renaissance Studies at the University of York. Her research explores how English colonialism influenced taste and politics in seventeenth-century London. Her first book, The Making of an Imperial Polity: Civility and America in the Jacobean Metropolis (2020), jointly won the Royal Historical Society's Whitfield Prize in 2021. She has also published on topics including travel and transculturality, female interests in empire, and the colonial gaze in cavalier verse. Her work with museums has led to collaborative projects on shipwrecked porcelain and contemporary poetry, still life painting, and global networks at Oxford and the Inns of Court. She is a consultant for the London National Portrait Gallery and a BBC Radio 3 New Generation Thinker. Rory Loughlane is Reader in Early Modern Studies and Co-Director of the Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, University of Kent. He is an award-winning scholar of early modern textual studies, authorship, intellectual history, theatre history, and literary criticism. He is an Associate Editor of the New Oxford Shakespeare and co-authored with Gary Taylor a book-length study about 'The Canon and Chronology of Shakespeare's works' and, in a series of attribution studies, he first identified Thomas Middleton as adapter of All's Well That Ends Well.
