Shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize 2018 A Book of the Year for the Evening Standard and the Observer A black porter publicly whips a white Englishman in the hall of a Gloucestershire manor house. A Moroccan woman is baptised in a London church. Henry VIII dispatches a Mauritanian diver to salvage lost treasures from the Mary Rose. From long-forgotten records emerge the remarkable stories of Africans who lived free in Tudor England… They were present at some of the defining moments of the age. They were christened, married and buried by the Church. They were paid wages like any other Tudors. The untold stories of the Black Tudors, dazzlingly brought to life by Kaufmann, will transform how we see this most intriguing period of history.
| ISBN: | 9781786073969 |
| Publication date: | 6th September 2018 |
| Author: | Miranda Kaufmann |
| Publisher: | Oneworld Publications |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 384 pages |
| Genres: |
Social and cultural history European history History and Archaeology Ethnic groups and multicultural studies |