Black Tudors: England's Other Countrymen

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🗓️ 16 December 2021

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Our image of the Tudor era remains overwhelmingly white. But the black presence in England was much greater than has previously been recognised, and Tudor conceptions of race were far more complex than we have been led to believe. In this edition of Not Just the Tudors, Professor Suzannah Lipscomb talks to Dr. Onyeka Nubia whose original research shows that Tudors from many walks of life regularly interacted with people of African descent, both at home and abroad - findings that cast a new light on the Tudor age and our own attitudes towards race relations in history.

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0:00.0	Have a welcome, Dan Snow's history here. It is that joyful time. You will all be celebrating.
0:05.3	You'll be dancing in the aisles when you learn that you're about to hear an episode of
0:09.2	Not Just The Tudors with Professor Susanna Lipscomb. She's one of the great talents of our
0:13.6	generation. She's got a podcast all about, well, the Tudors, but not just the Tudors.
0:17.7	What's going on around the world at the time? The glories of 16th century global histories
0:22.9	all happening, folks. In this episode, she talks to Dr. Onyekka Nubia, whose research on people
0:30.3	of colour in Tudor England is fascinating. There are people of African descent living in Tudor
0:35.4	England, as we don't know as well, from the Mary Rose, like fasting DNA, some of the people that
0:40.0	went down the Mary Rose, but he's also showing light on a really interesting branch of scholarship
0:44.8	all about Tudor England's relations with the wider world, with the extra European world.
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1:39.0	here's Professor Lipscomb and Dr. Newbyer talking about Black Presence in England. Enjoy.
1:50.6	Dr. Newbyer, I am very excited to talk to you again and to have a chance to think together
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