Biography
Miranda Kaufmann was born in 1982 to a Jewish family in London [2] ,about which she has said:"I think it gave me an international outlook and curiosity about other people and cultures. It was also a hugely intellectually stimulating place to grow up. I benefited from all the museums,galleries and theatres;and just walking down a London street is often a history lesson in itself. [3] She read history at Christ Church,Oxford,becoming interested in Black history as a research topic during her final undergraduate year, [3] and going on to complete in 2011 her doctoral thesis entitled "Africans in Britain,1500–1640". [4] [5]
Since 2014,Kaufmann has been co-convenor,together with art and cultural historian Michael Ohajuru, [6] of the workshop series "What's Happening in Black British History?" at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies. [1] Kaufmann along with Stephen B. Whatley inspired the "John Blanke Project", [7] an art and archive initiative of which Ohajuru is the founder and director; [8] the Project celebrates and is linked to images of John Blanke,the Black trumpeter to the courts of Henry VII and Henry VIII. [9] [10] [11]
Kaufmann has written articles for a range of publications,including The Times Literary Supplement , The Times , The Guardian ,and BBC History magazine, [12] has contributed to features about Black British History on radio,television and video, [13] [14] as well as appearing on Sky News,Al Jazeera and BBC Television. [15] Additionally,Kaufmann has participated in and spoken at many educational institutions,conferences,festivals and seminars internationally. [4] [16] She advised on the Tudor episode of David Olusoga's 2016 BBC Television documentary series Black and British:A Forgotten History . [17]
Her first book,Black Tudors:The Untold Story,was published in 2017 by Oneworld Publications. [18] As Bidisha observed in The Guardian ,the book "debunks the idea that slavery was the beginning of Africans’presence in England,and exploitation and discrimination their only experience. [...] Along with writers such as David Olusoga,Paul Gilroy and Sunny Singh,and institutions such as the University of York,which has launched a project investigating medieval multiculturalism,historians such as Miranda Kaufmann are bringing England to a necessary reckoning with its true history." [19] Black Tudors was shortlisted for the 2018 Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize for Global Cultural Understanding [20] and for the Wolfson History Prize, [21] [22] and was also nominated as "Book of the Year" by the Evening Standard and The Observer . [15]
Kaufmann is an Honorary Fellow of the University of Liverpool,a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and of the Royal Society of Arts. [1]
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