Sunday 14 October 2018

Black Tudors at NPG



 
On 18 October at the National Portrait Gallery in London  Dr. Miranda Kaufmann tells the intriguing tales of three Africans living in Tudor England – a diver employed by Henry VIII to recover guns from the wreck of the Mary Rose, a Moroccan woman baptized in Elizabethan London and a porter who whipped a fellow servant at their master's Gloucestershire manor house. Their stories shed light on key questions: how did they come to England? What were their lives like? How were they treated by the church and the law?
 
Tickets from NPG website
 
Miranda Kaufmann is author of Black Tudors, published by Oneworld in 2017 and shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize 2018.  She is also author of the entry for trumpeter John Blanke (fl.1507-1512) in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.

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  1. Hi Jan, I'm currently doing a dissertation on the relationship between Pre-Raphaelite conceptions of feminine beauty and its influence on Gothic fiction of the Fin Siècle and Neo-Victorian literature, I would really love to have a short interview with you if possible. If you would like to take part, please let me know at the following email address: alexandra.harper.2016@live.rhul.ac.uk, thank you!

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