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Black Tudors : the untold story / Miranda Kaufmann.

By: Publication details: London : Oneworld, 2017.Description: 376 p. : ill. (black and white, and colour), ports ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9781786071842 : (hbk)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 941.00496 23
Summary: A black porter publicly whips a white Englishman in the hall of a Gloucestershire manor house. A Moroccan woman is baptised in a London church. Henry VIII dispatches a Mauritanian diver to salvage lost treasures from the Mary Rose. From long-forgotten records emerge the remarkable stories of Africans who lived free in Tudor England... They were present at some of the defining moments of the age. They were christened, married and buried by the Church. They were paid wages like any other Tudors. The untold stories of the Black Tudors, dazzlingly brought to life by Kaufmann, will transform how we see this most intriguing period of history. (Copac)
List(s) this item appears in: New acquisitions 2017
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Loanable Book Library General Collection 941.00496 KAU (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 000412934

Includes bibliographical references and index.

A black porter publicly whips a white Englishman in the hall of a Gloucestershire manor house. A Moroccan woman is baptised in a London church. Henry VIII dispatches a Mauritanian diver to salvage lost treasures from the Mary Rose. From long-forgotten records emerge the remarkable stories of Africans who lived free in Tudor England... They were present at some of the defining moments of the age. They were christened, married and buried by the Church. They were paid wages like any other Tudors. The untold stories of the Black Tudors, dazzlingly brought to life by Kaufmann, will transform how we see this most intriguing period of history. (Copac)

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