Heiresses Book Tour 2026-2027
Sunday 9th August: Llangwm Literary Festival, near Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire.
Sunday 6th September: London Radical Book Fair, Stanley Arts, South Norwood, London
Sunday 27th September: Brontë Women's Writing Festival, Brontë Parsonage Museum, Haworth, West Yorkshire
Friday 2nd October, 6pm: Hope Community Library, Fagl Lane, Hope, Flintshire, North Wales, LL12 9PY (Booking details coming soon)
Saturday 6th February 2027: Stony Words Festival, Stony Stratford, Buckinghamshire (Booking details coming soon)
more dates coming soon...
Sunday 6th September: London Radical Book Fair, Stanley Arts, South Norwood, London
Sunday 27th September: Brontë Women's Writing Festival, Brontë Parsonage Museum, Haworth, West Yorkshire
Friday 2nd October, 6pm: Hope Community Library, Fagl Lane, Hope, Flintshire, North Wales, LL12 9PY (Booking details coming soon)
Saturday 6th February 2027: Stony Words Festival, Stony Stratford, Buckinghamshire (Booking details coming soon)
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?
