Miranda Kaufmann is a Senior Research Fellow at the University of London’s Institute of Commonwealth Studies. Her first book, Black Tudors, was shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize 2018. She has appeared on Sky News, the BBC and Al Jazeera, and she’s written for The Times, Guardian and BBC History Magazine. She lives in Pontblyddyn in North Wales.
‘That rare thing: a book about the 16th century that said something
new.’
*Evening Standard, Books of the Year*
‘This is history on the cutting edge of archival research, but
accessibly written and alive with human details and warmth. Black
Tudors is a critical book that allows us to better understand an
era that fascinates us like no other.’
*David Olusoga, author of Black and British: A Forgotten
History*
‘Enlightening and constantly surprising… Far too many popular
studies of the Tudors return the same faces. To its great credit,
Black Tudors presents fresh figures and challenges the way we look
at them.’
*Jessie Childs, Financial Times*
‘Splendid… that rare thing – a work of history about the Tudors
that actually says something fresh and new… a cracking contribution
to the field.’
*Dan Jones, Sunday Times*
‘Consistently fascinating, historically invaluable… the narrative
is pacy... Anyone reading it will never look at Tudor England in
the same light again.'
*Daily Mail*
‘An absolute joy.’
*Leanda de Lisle, The Times*
‘The industry and skill with which Miranda Kaufmann has hunted for
these sources and teased out their meanings are exemplary…
Kaufmann’s greatest skill is her ability to fill in the background
on every topic that arises, from piracy to silk-weaving to brothels
to Anglo-Moroccan diplomacy… In the hands of a lesser writer this
would be mere padding with secondary material, but she investigates
every subject in the same depth… a fascinating book, which brings a
sadly neglected part of our history to life, and grinds no
ideological axes in the process’.
*Daily Telegraph*
‘[The] audience will find itself in the hands of a historian of
excellent investigative skills, who shows attention to detail, uses
evidence with appropriate caution, and has the sensibility of a
scholar.’
*Times Literary Supplement*
‘Fascinating.’
*Sunday Telegraph*
‘Meticulous research draws on sources from letters to legal papers…
The detail [Kaufmann] unearths brings to life those absent from the
pages of history.’
*Observer*
‘In a work of brilliant sleuthing, engagingly written, Kaufmann
reclaims long-forgotten lives and fundamentally challenges our
preconceptions of Tudor and Jacobean attitudes to race and
slavery.’
*John Guy, bestselling author of Elizabeth: The Forgotten
Years*
‘Miranda Kaufmann has written a superb antidote both to the cliches
of Tudor history and to the assumption that Black migration to
Britain began with the Windrush. Her vivid portrait of Black Tudor
lives sweeps readers around the world in the company of Diego,
manservant to Sir Francis Drake, and back to the life of single
woman Cattelena in the Gloucestershire countryside. Grounded in
precise and detailed historical research, Black Tudors promises to
change perceptions of a period at the heart of Britain’s national
identity.’
*Catherine Fletcher, author of The Black Prince of Florence*
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