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Dr. Miranda Kaufmann is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, part of the School of Advanced Study, University of London. She read History at Christ Church, Oxford, where she completed her doctoral thesis on 'Africans in Britain, 1500-1640' in 2011. As a freelance historian and journalist, she has worked for The Sunday Times, the BBC, the National Trust, English Heritage, the Oxford Companion series, Quercus publishing and the Rugby Football Foundation. She is a popular speaker at conferences, seminars and schools from Hull to Jamaica and has published articles in academic journals and elsewhere (including the Times Literary Supplement, The Times, The Guardian, History Today, BBC History Magazine and Periscope P ...more

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	Black Tudors: The Untold Story 3.78 avg rating — 2,008 ratings — published 2017 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Heiresses: Marriage, Inheritance, and Slavery in the Caribbean 4.40 avg rating — 50 ratings — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Miranda Kaufmann and 47 other people liked Roman Clodia's review of Heiresses: Marriage, Inheritance, and Slavery in the Caribbean: "As in her Black Tudors: The Untold Story, Kaufmann uses the stories of nine Caribbean heiresses to personalise a wider history of slavery and exploitation that linked Britain (and certainly not just England) and the Caribbean with implications into o" Read more of this review »
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What book about the Tudors or Tudor England would you like for the group to read together in November 2017?

Black Tudors: African Lives in Renaissance England by Miranda Kaufmann

9 votes, 17.6%

Death And The Virgin: Elizabeth, Dudley and the Mysterious Fate of Amy Robsart by Chris Skidmore

7 votes, 13.7%

The Last Boleyn by Karen Harper

6 votes, 11.8%

The Tudor Bride by Joanna Hickson

6 votes, 11.8%

House of Beaufort: The Bastard Line that Captured the Crown by Nathen Amin

5 votes, 9.8%

The Raven's Widow by Adrienne Dillard

4 votes, 7.8%

The White Rose Murders by Paul Doherty

4 votes, 7.8%

Katharine of Aragon: The Wives of Henry VIII by Jean Plaidy

2 votes, 3.9%

Falling Pomegranate Seeds: The Duty of Daughters by Wendy J. Dunn

2 votes, 3.9%

Falcon's Rise *** Number 1 Book ***: The Early Years of Anne Boleyn by Natalia Richards

2 votes, 3.9%

Elizabeth's London: Everyday Life in Elizabethan London by Liza Picard

2 votes, 3.9%

John Dudley: The Life of Lady Jane Grey's Father-in-Law by Christine Hartweg

1 vote, 2.0%

Anne of Cleves: Henry's Luckiest Wife by D. Lawrence-Young

1 vote, 2.0%

The Life of Thomas More by Peter Ackroyd

0 votes, 0.0%

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“Well, I have lost you; and I lost you fairly;
In my own way, and with my full consent.
Say what you will, kings in a tumbrel rarely
Went to their deaths more proud than this one went.

Some nights of apprehension and hot weeping
I will confess; but that's permitted me;
Day dried my eyes; I was not one for keeping
Rubbed in a cage a wing that would be free.

If I had loved you less or played you slyly
I might have held you for a summer more,
But at the cost of words I value highly,
And no such summer as the one before.

Should I outlive this anguish, and men do,
I shall have only good to say of you.”
― Edna St. Vincent Millay

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