The University of Westminster is pleased to host Dr Miranda Kaufmann as a keynote speaker for its Black History Year programme.
About the Event
'Black Tudors' talk marks the beginning of the continuation of ‘Black History Month’. The Black History Year programme will offer a year-long platform for sharing news, views, reviews and events as well as a dedicated blog site that aims to capture some of the wealth of Black history (past and present) in the UK.
Dr Kaufmann is a historian, freelance journalist and author. She is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, part of the School of Advanced Study, University of London. She is also an Honorary Fellow of the University of Liverpool and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Her expertise centres on the history of Africans in Renaissance Britain, and her outputs encompass mainstream and specialist media as well as numerous articles in academic journals. Her consultation work includes David Olusoga’s BAFTA award-winning series ‘Black and British: A Forgotten History'. Dr Kaufmann’s critically acclaimed book ‘Black Tudors’ will be turned into an ITV-sponsored televised drama series.
Dr Kaufmann’s talk will centre on her longstanding research into the presence of free Black people who lived in London during the period of the Tudors and into the time of the early Stuarts. There will be a particular focus on the life of John Blanke.
To make the most of this talk, attendees should first watch Dr Kaufmann’s talk delivered at Gresham College, Oxford.
Dr Kaufmann will be re-visiting key aspects of this talk followed by an audience Q&A. She is joined on the panel by the University of Westminster Kate Theophilus, Research Development Partner, Manvir Grewal, Westminster Law School Lecturer and Deborah Husbands, Psychology Lecturer.
This talk promises to offer insightful perspectives and documented evidence into an aspect of Black history that is less known. The link to the talk will be sent after registration, closer to the date of the event.
