Black Tudors: the untold story

We know what the Tudors wore, we know what they ate, we know the details of their monarchs’ sex lives, and how they caused seismic changes in religious and political history.

But until now, the story of Africans who lived and died in 16th-century England has remained untold. Dr Miranda Kaufmann’s painstaking search has revealed evidence of the lives of over 360 individuals, telling the stories of Africans that came to England from Africa, Europe and the Spanish Caribbean – unlike the majority of Africans across the rest of the Atlantic world, in England they were free.

Living in a world before the English became heavily involved in the slave trade, these stories alter the traditional narrative that racial slavery was inevitable, forcing us to re-examine the 17th century to find out what caused perceptions to change so radically.

Includes a complimentary drink.

Age: 16+