Ruth Leon recommends… The Black Presence in Tudor England- Met Museum
Ruth Leon recommendsThe Black Presence in Tudor England- Met Museum
In celebration of Black History Month, I found this Met Museum film of a lecture about the life and experiences of John Blanke who was a trumpeter who performed at the funeral of Henry VII and at the coronation of Henry VIII as well as other documented free Black residents of Tudor England, including a silk weaver, a salvage diver, a needleworker, and others.
Learn more in this lecture on the Black Presence in Tudor England, which was presented in conjunction with The Met exhibition The Tudors: Art and Majesty in Renaissance England.
The lecturers are Dr. Miranda Kaufmann, author of Black Tudors: The Untold Story and Michael I. Ohajuru FRSA, Senior Fellow, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, London. As always, it’s inspiring to experience the knowledge and enthusiasm of experts who really know their subject.
We are living in the most stultifying tedious, low-iq timeline in human history.
Yet another tiresome comment. At least you are consistent.
An interesting take on this book: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6jcAADz1KU
The Tudor period was 1485 to 1603 when the population went up from 2.1 million to 4.1 million, during this time she found that there might have been 200 black people living here. Further, there might have been 145 from 1603 to 1650 when the population had grown to 5.3 million. Personally, I don’t think this is earth shattering. She does, in fact, say that these people were not slaves, but treated as normal people, but most of us who don’t view history through a certain limited prism didn’t think that anyway.