Miranda Kaufmann

Dr Miranda Kaufmann is the author of Black Tudors: The Untold Story (Oneworld, 2017), which was shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize and the Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize, and has sold over 50,000 copies, and Heiresses: Marriage, Inheritance and Caribbean Slavery (2025). She is a Senior Research Fellow at the University of London’s Institute of Commonwealth Studies, an Honorary Fellow of the University of Liverpool, a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and of the Royal Society of Arts. She has written for The Times, Guardian, TLS and BBC History Magazine. Miranda lives in North Wales. She will be donating her profits from her new book, Heiresses, to reparative causes.