A new, transformative history – in Tudor times there were Black people living and working in Britain, and they were free

‘This is history on the cutting edge of archival research, but accessibly written and alive with human details and warmth.’ David Olusoga, author of Black and British: A Forgotten History

A black porter publicly whips a white Englishman in the hall of a Gloucestershire manor house. A Moroccan woman is baptized in a London church. Henry VIII dispatches a Mauritanian diver to salvage lost treasures from the Mary Rose. From long-forgotten records emerge the remarkable stories of Africans who lived free in Tudor England…

• Paperback ‏ : ‎ 384 pages
• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 178607396X
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1786073969