If you click here you will get a New Statesman review of Miranda Kaufmann’s book Black Tudors – the untold story. In it, David Dabydeen reflects that the book is a “groundbreaking, but also a gripping set of portraits of ten Africans, selected from the hundreds discovered through patient searching through parish registers of baptisms, marriages and burials; municipal records; tax returns; wills and inventories; household accounts and other miscellaneous, often obscure or overlooked archival materials.”
As such, it is the perfect example of my argument of history always evolving and changing because of new research. It is well worth a read, and look out for Cattelena…
I have a copy if anyone wants to borrow it.
Mr Kydd.
