The Tlaxcala Codex: Bridging Indigenous worlds and colonial transformations
The University of Glasgow Library presents, "The Tlaxcala Codex: Bridging Indigenous worlds and colonial transformations", a talk by Dr Julia McClure is a senior lecturer in History at University of Glasgow, and a global historian specialising in the histories of poverty, inequality, imperialism, capitalism and the environment (especially focused upon Latin America, the Iberian Peninsula, and the Spanish Empire).
University of Glasgow Library Re: reading public programme
Date: Wednesday 10 December 2025
Time: 13:10 - 13:35
Venue: University of Glasgow Library, Level 2 Exhibition Space
Category: Public lectures
Speaker: Dr Julia McClure
University of Glasgow Archives & Special Collections' MS Hunter 242, the Descripción de la ciudad y provincia de Tlaxcala de las Indias y del Mar Océano para el buen gobierno y ennoblecimiento dellas, widely known as the Tlaxcala Codex, an Indigenous account of the history of Tlaxcala and the first years of the colonisation of the Americas. The Tlaxcala Codex has a long history as a diplomatic object, bridging worlds, fostering transatlantic conversations, and increasing understandings of the histories of Indigenous peoples and environments and Indigenous perspectives on empire and resistance.