Vient de paraître Black Tudors. The untold story de Miranda Kaufmann chez Oneworld Publications

Vient de paraître Black Tudors. The untold story de Miranda Kaufmann chez Oneworld Publications, 2017, 384 p. ISBN : 9781786071842 Prix : 18,99 £.

"A transformative history - in Tudor times there were Africans living and working in Britain, and they were free.
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."

Miranda Kaufmann (blog) is a Senior Research Fellow at the University of London’s Institute of Commonwealth Studies. 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.