Natasha Bailey - ‘The Resistance of This Province’: Protest, Negotiation and Octli/Pulque in Seventeenth-Century Mexico

Natasha Bailey is a librarian assistant at the Bodleian Libraries and has taught early modern history at the University of Oxford. A historian of early modern Mexico, her research focuses on the social lives of Indigenous Nahua communities and their interactions with the Spanish colonial state. She received her PhD from the University of Leicester in 2021. Her doctoral research on Nahua alcohol producers in the sixteenth-seventeenth centuries, which she is currently revising into a monograph, also connects to the study of gender, legal history and drinking studies/food history.