A Conversation on the Black Presence in Tudor England

Abd el-Ouahed ben Messaoud ben Mohammed Anoun Moorish Ambassador to Queen Elizabeth I (detail), 1600. Oil on oak, Framed: 55 1/8 x 40 15/16 x 3 3/4 in. (140 x 104 x 9.5 cm), 44 1/2 x 34 1/2 in., (113 x 87.6 cm). University of Birmingham, Research and Cultural Collections

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From the FAMSF
Hear scholars Miranda Kaufmann and Michael Ohajuru present on their research into Black Tudors in England during the 16th century.
Ohajuru will introduce the John Blanke Project, an art and archive project in which artists and historians reimagine John Blanke, the Black trumpeter to the Tudor court. Kaufmann will explore the African presence in Tudor England based on original research from her book Black Tudors: The Untold Story. Together they will consider the implicit and explicit Black presences in the objects on display in The Tudors: Art and Majesty in Renaissance England.

About the speakers
Dr. Miranda Kaufmann is the author of Black Tudors: The Untold Story (2017), shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize and Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize. She read history at Christ Church, Oxford and is now an honorary fellow of the University of Liverpool, a fellow of the Royal Historical Society and the Royal Society of Arts, and a senior research fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London. She is currently working on her second book, Heiresses, and is taking her work into schools with her Teaching Black Tudors project and to the world with her Black Tudors: The Untold Story FutureLearn course.
Michael I. Ohajuru is a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and the Institute of Commonwealth Studies with honors degrees in physics and art history. Ohajuru writes and speaks regularly on the Black presence in Renaissance Europe. He is founder of Image of the Black in London Galleries (a series of gallery tours), project director and chief evangelist of The John Blanke Project (an art and archive project celebrating John Blanke, the Black trumpeter to courts of Henry VII and Henry VIII), co-convener of the Institute of Commonwealth Studies’s What’s Happening in Black British History workshops, and founder member of the Black Presence in British Portraiture network.