Heiresses Book Tour 2026
Monday 8th June, 6-9pm Heiresses and the House: Christ Church Men and Caribbean Slavery, Christ Church Annual History Lecture, Mercers' Hall, London
Tuesday 9th June, 2.30pm Jane Austen's House
more dates coming soon...
Tuesday 9th June, 2.30pm Jane Austen's House
more dates coming soon...
Black Tudors: Three Untold Stories talk 2019
Almost 500,000 people have viewed my Black Tudors: Three Untold Stories talk since it was filmed by Gresham College in 2019. You can watch it on YouTube below.
Dr Kaufmann tells the intriguing tales of three Africans living in Tudor England – Jacques Francis, a diver employed by Henry VIII to recover guns from the wreck of the Mary Rose; Mary Fillis, a Moroccan woman baptized in Elizabethan London; and Edward Swarthye, a porter who whipped a fellow servant at their master's Gloucestershire manor house. Their stories illuminate key issues: – how did they come to England? What were their lives like? How were they treated by the church and the law? Most importantly: were they free?
Dr Kaufmann tells the intriguing tales of three Africans living in Tudor England – Jacques Francis, a diver employed by Henry VIII to recover guns from the wreck of the Mary Rose; Mary Fillis, a Moroccan woman baptized in Elizabethan London; and Edward Swarthye, a porter who whipped a fellow servant at their master's Gloucestershire manor house. Their stories illuminate key issues: – how did they come to England? What were their lives like? How were they treated by the church and the law? Most importantly: were they free?
