Image credit: Rosie Collins

Historian, Author, Raconteuse
Three ways of saying the same thing- I like telling stories. I also like digging for the truth. Or as near to it as anyone is likely to get. 
Because the best stories are true stories. ​

 My first book, Black Tudors: The Untold Story, was published by Oneworld was shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize and the Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize in 2018. I've used it to develop a FREE online Black Tudors course with FutureLearn and teaching resources through my Teaching Black Tudors project.  My second book, Heiresses: Marriage, Inheritance and Caribbean Slavery, (2025) is out now!

Have a look round my site, where you can find my blog, videos, podcasts, latest news and my published articles. 

You can also listen to my podcast and radio interviews. 

Then do drop me a line on socials or via my contact form and let me know what you think!

​My new book, Heiresses: Marriage, Inheritance and Caribbean Slavery is out now in the UK and the USA.  Read more about it here. 

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Heiresses Book Tour

Tuesday 22nd September: Historical Association Virtual Branch (online)
Sunday 27th September: Brontë Women's Writing Festival, Brontë Parsonage Museum, Haworth, West Yorkshire

Friday 2nd October, 7pm: Hope Community Library, Fagl Lane, Hope, Flintshire, North Wales, LL12 9PY 

Friday 9th October, 6pm: post-screening panel discussion of Fred Kudjo Kuwornu's 'We Were Here': The untold history of Black Africans in the Renaissance, The National Gallery, London

Thursday 28th January, National Portrait Gallery (booking details coming soon)

Saturday 6th February 2027: Stony Words Festival, Stony Stratford, Buckinghamshire (Booking details coming soon)
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more dates coming soon...