Heiresses Book Tour 2025
Saturday 11th October: Birmingham Literature Festival, with Corinne Fowler, Malachi McIntosh and Casey Bailey
Wednesday 22nd October: Pratt Institute, New York
Thursday 23rd October: Columbia University, New York
Wednesday 29th October: National Gallery, London, with Leslie Primo
Thursday 6th November: Bridport Literary Festival, with Malik Al-Nasir and Paul Lashmar
Thursday 13 November: Mold Library, hosted by Mold Bookshop
more dates coming soon...
Wednesday 22nd October: Pratt Institute, New York
Thursday 23rd October: Columbia University, New York
Wednesday 29th October: National Gallery, London, with Leslie Primo
Thursday 6th November: Bridport Literary Festival, with Malik Al-Nasir and Paul Lashmar
Thursday 13 November: Mold Library, hosted by Mold Bookshop
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?
