MIRANDA KAUFMANN - Blog

I’m delighted to share the beautiful cover for the Heiresses paperback - out in September but available to pre-order now.

Jane (Jenny) Leigh Perrot, nee Cholmeley Whenever Jane Austen’s links to enslavement are mentioned, it causes a furore, or if you will, a storm in a teacup sweetened by Caribbean sugar.

(Image: Lauren Walker/Truthout) When writing my new book, Heiresses, it was important to me to highlight the lives of enslaved people, because we can’t truly understand their significance without considering the human cost of their actions or inaction.

Lady Elizabeth Webster nee Vassall by Robert Fagan, Naples, 1793 Not long now till my new book, Heiresses: Marriage, Inheritance and Caribbean Slavery, hits the shelves on 4 September, so I'm beginning to share some of the most intriguing stories from the…

I’m delighted to announce that my new book, Heiresses: Marriage, Inheritance and Caribbean Slavery, is being published on 4th September by Oneworld in the UK and 7th October by Pegasus in the US.

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Speaking with Astrid Madimba, co-author of It's a Continent at the Africa is Not a Country, It's a Continent panel at Gladfest 2022.

sI am happy to announce that a new Miranda Kaufmann Black British History Scholarship will be available at Gladstone’s Library from 2023.

8th-century Welsh gardener John Ystumllyn (c. 1738 - 1786), also colloquially known as Jac Du or Jack Black Penrhyn Castle As I live in North Wales, I'm particularly excited that following the success of our previous events in London, Liverpool, Bristol,…

I am incredibly disappointed that the MA in Black British History at Goldsmiths, University of London, the only taught course of its kind in the country, which only launched in 2019, is at risk of closure, as Goldsmiths has put its lecturers Christienna F…