Travellers in the Golden Realm by MEMOs Founding Editor, Lubaaba Al-Azami was recently reviewed with 4 stars by the Telegraph, who describe the book as:

"[an] illuminating and engrossing history of the relationship between England and India under the rule of the Mughals during the 16th and 17th centuries" 

This book launch will be held at Manchester Museum to meet Lubaaba Al-Azami, author and cultural historian specialising in the Global Renaissance. She is Lecturer in Shakespeare and Early Modern Literature at the University of Manchester and a research fellow at the University of Liverpool. She is also Founding Editor of Medieval and Early Modern Orients (MEMOs, memorients.com), a leading digital platform on premodern interactions between England and the Islamic Worlds.

There will be an opportunity to purchase the book from the Museum giftshop and have it signed by the author during the event.

For this event only we are fortunate to be loaning Purchas his Pligrimes: contayning a history of the world in sea voyages and lande travells by Englishmen and others by Samuel Purchas 1905-97, from the John Rylands Research Institute and Library Special Collections. The book will be displayed in the South Asia Gallery and copies can be bought in the shop in advance or on the day.