Black Tudors: The Untold Story

Thu 30 November 2017 18:00 – 20:00

Historian Miranda Kaufmann tells the intriguing tales of three Africans – a diver employed by Henry VIII to recover guns from the wreck of the Mary Rose, a Moroccan woman baptised in Elizabethan London and a porter who whipped a fellow servant at their master’s Gloucestershire manor house.

Includes wine reception.

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