This Little World with Nandini Das

Nandini Das will be in conversation with Breeze Barrington at this event, offering a startlingly new, globally resonant vision of Englands past and what it meant to be English. It is a story of a nation in the making on the cusp of empire told through the traces of those often written out of it.About the speaker
Nandini Das is professor of Early Modern Literature and Culture in the English faculty at the University of Oxford. She is a specialist in Shakespeare studies, Renaissance romance writing, early travel literature, and encounters between different cultures. Her book This Little World - A New History of Tudor and Stuart England explores how beneath this familiar narrative of ruffs and gowns, kings and queens of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, lies a more complex and connected reality. In reframing England's story within a wider world, This Little World challenges us to rethink some of our most fundamental ideas: about nationhood, about identity, and above all, about belonging.