The chapters tend to focus on that individual, but they also expand to more general things and touch on other Black people who lived in England during the Tudor reign. It was absolutely fascinating. I liked that the author frankly discussed what is and what is not known from the histor. A heavily pregnant African woman is abandoned on an Indonesian island by Sir Francis Drake. I have read several outstanding books about everyday Tudor lives recently, and I'm delighted to add this one to my bookshelf. A heavily pregnant African woman is abandoned on an Indonesian island by Sir Francis Drake. A black porter publicly whips a white Englishman in the hall of a Gloucestershire manor house.
I certainly enjoyed discussing the information I read in this book with friends. The paperback edition was published on 6th September 2018.
Tudor England was actually a place where Africans came to be free. There is a myth that there were very few people of colour in England in the Tudor period and that Elizabeth 1 made an effort to get rid of those that were. Incredibly well-researched. Firstly, I'm pleased that this has been published as a cross-over book for a general audience as, like. The internet is going to change how histories are written in the future, the vast amount of data available, and the clamor of voices waiting to speak will need to be addressed by future historians. Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. The author puts each of the stories she's dug out into a wider context of the time (skilled artisans, pirates, prostitutes, musicians at the royal court, divers; city people and country people; se. One of the great (or terrible) things about the emergence of the internet is that it has given voice to populations who, even fifty years ago, would not have been heard. It's a staggering demonstration of how much history has been whitewashed. A Moroccan woman is baptised in a London church. Henry VIII dispatches a Mauritanian diver … She also started each chapter with a brief passage from the imagined perspective of her subject, which I enjoyed as it made it easier for me to engage with the subject matter. The TV rights were optioned in 2017 by Silverprint Pictures , who are developing it into an epic TV drama, and the book was shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize and the Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize in 2018.
"Black Tudors: The Untold Story" by Miranda Kaufmann does an excellent job of highlighting the African presence in Britain during Tudor times.
I liked that the author frankly discussed what is and what is not known from the historical record, especially as there were a lot of blank spaces in the lives of these ordinary people. As a freelance historian and journalist, she has worked for, http://www.mirandakaufmann.com/black-tudors.html, Wolfson History Prize Nominee for Shortlist (2018). Scholar and historian Miranda Kaufmann has written vignettes of half a dozen or so Africans who lived and worked in England during the Tudor Era. Their stories, brought viscerally to life by Kaufmann, provide unprecedented insights into how Africans came to be in Tudor England, what they did there and how they were treated. While I do wish it was Black authored -- and I definitely have another book on my list because of this -- it was extremely informative. For most people, Black British history beings with the. To see what your friends thought of this book, This is scholarly and well researched: a continuation of Kaufmann’s PhD thesis: in other words a proper history book.
A ground-breaking, seminal work, Black Tudors challenges the accepted narrative that racial slavery was all but inevitable and forces us to re-examine the seventeenth century to determine what caused perceptions to change so radically. It's as interesting as reading an inventory. The information was great, and I enjoyed a lot of the little details, especially the ones about the court records.
The author puts each of the stories she's dug out into a wider context of the time (skilled artisans, pirates, prostitutes, musicians at the royal court, divers; city people and country people; settlers and just visiting) and shows how much international travel and immigration, forced and voluntary, was going on. Miranda Kaufmann explores this riveting, fresh angle of English history in, “Black Tudors: The Untold Story”. Kaufmann uses different people as "models" in each chapter. This is an important book, showcasing crucial research, and it just so badly written that it obscures, rather than reveals what it has to say. The author has gone through the minutiae of parish registers and legal records to reconstruct the stories of Africans living in Tudor England, on the way revealing just how many there were. Miranda Kaufmann clearly set herself a bloody hard task in writing this book, which takes 10 different black lives from Tudor and Stuart England and uses them to explore how the English viewed black people at the time and what professions and opportunities were open to them.
The author has gone through the minutiae of parish registers and legal records to reconstruct the stories of Africans living in Tudor England, on the way revealing just how many there were. Let us know what’s wrong with this preview of, Published I have read several outstanding books about everyday Tudor lives recently, and I'm delighted to add this one to my bookshelf. Start by marking “Black Tudors: The Untold Story” as Want to Read: Error rating book. I also particularly love that each chapter is devoted to a person of a different social standing, so in addition to presenting the breadth of diversity in circum. While that is certainly true, the more insidious fact is that history is written by those who hold the pen. "Black Tudors: The Untold Story" by Miranda Kaufmann does an excellent job of highlighting the African presence in Britain during Tudor times.
Strictly Kaufmann extends her range to the mid-1620s. Strictly Kaufmann extends her range to the mid-1620s. There is a myth that there were very few people of colour in England in the Tudor period and that Elizabeth 1 made an effort to get rid of those that were. The author attempts to tell the story of several individuals, and in so doing shed light on the variety of occupations and roles held by black people at the time, again contradicting an assumption that black people in England must have been slaves or servants. What an extraordinary, revelatory book. From long-forgotten records, remarkable characters emerge. Kaufmann does have a tendency to wander off the point and give background detail, probably because.
It covers being a part of the royal household, sex work, trade people, the i. I've had this book on my list to read for a very long time. I appreciated that the author included a significant bibliography and notes section, as these are sometimes lacking in popular nonfiction books.
She was a free and single woman, living alone in an English village: supporting herself. What an extraordinary, revelatory book. The result of all that hard work is an interesting, well-footnoted guesstimate at black lives in Tudor and Stuart England. One of the great (or terrible) things about the emergence of the internet is that it has given voice to populations who, even fifty years ago, would. What this means in a practical sense is that those with little power, and little influence–whether or not they “won”–are often either diminished in the historical record or left out entirely. Kaufmann uses different people as "models" in each chapter. Dr. Miranda Kaufmann is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, part of the School of Advanced Study, University of London. From lo. Kaufmann does have a tendency to wander off the point and give background detail, probably because her source material is fairly thin. Surprisingly, Tudor England had a sufficient amount of Black residents/workers and there were not ‘slaves’ as usually envisioned. This is scholarly and well researched: a continuation of Kaufmann’s PhD thesis: in other words a proper history book. A large amount of credit is due to Miranda Kaufmann for being exceptionally ambitious and striving to reveal an aspect of Tudor history that even the most staunch English his One doesn’t generally associate Tudor-era England with individuals of African-descent.
It is said that history is written by the winners.
This book discusses the lives of black people in Tudor England, contradicting the assumption that they were not a part of English history at this time.
I am somewhat conflicted about this book. We start with a trumpeter at the early Tudor Court, John Blanke who was present at Henry VIII’s coronation and end with Cattalena of Almondsbury in Gloucestershire whose possessions at her death were recorded (including her cow) in the early seventeenth century. With a few exceptions, we know little about their lives since just their names and ethnicity is all that has been recorded about them. Refresh and try again.
A fascinating look at African's in Tudor England. My interest in the Tudor era comes primarily from reading a lot of historical fiction, which often (and understandably) tends to stories about royalty or people associated with royalty. Miranda Kaufmann explores this riveting, fresh angle of English history in, “Black Tudors: The Untold Story”. It lost stars for me because so much of the information was focused on the Stuart era and not the Tudors, also because so many of the details included did not quite relate to the stories. The Hidden Lives of Tudor Women: A Social History, The Black Prince of Florence: The Spectacular Life and Treacherous World of Alessandro de’ Medici, November 2017 - Black Tudors, by Miranda Kaufmann. Colonies with plantation economies eventually brought about institutionalized slavery and racism in those colonies, but by the end of the Tudor period the British Empire was barely in its infancy. *I received this book through LibraryThing Early Reviewers.*. A black porter publicly whips a white English gentleman in a Gloucestershire manor house. My first book, Black Tudors: The Untold Story, was published by Oneworld in October 2017, to critical acclaim, named a Book of the Year by both the Evening Standard and the Observer . I appreciated the insight into ordinary people, and I hope that some historical fiction authors read this book and incorporate some of information in it to make for more interesting and diverse characters. There is a short and excellent epilogue at the end of the book, which includes a summary of Kaufmann's research. There were no plantations which at that time required slave labor. She read History at Christ Church, Oxford, where she completed her doctoral thesis on 'Africans in Britain, 1500-1640' in 2011. They were paid wages like any other Tudors. Here ten particular men and women are identified and their stories told. It's a staggering demonstration of how much history has been whitewashed. Welcome back. While I do wish it was Black authored -- and I definitely have another book on my list because of this -- it was extremely informative. Solid and exhaustive research that makes excellent arguments not only for the presence of Africans in the everyday Tudor landscape but also their status as free persons who were ordinary members of the community. I found it very interesting and I definitely would like to own this to round out my Tudor shelf! What price and when is it available as hardback in Australia ? This book discusses the lives of black people in Tudor England, contradicting the assumption that they were not a part of English history at this time. Solid and exhaustive research that makes excellent arguments not only for the presence of Africans in the everyday Tudor landscape but also their status as free persons who were ordinary members of the community. Black Tudors by Dr Miranda Kaufmann is an ambitious book loaded with little-known Tudor trivia that has long been overdue in the study of 16th century England, and fortunately for the future of this little-explored topic, the result is a fascinating production of the utmost quality that takes a close look at ten individuals who could, quite accurately, be considered Black Tudors.