Join us at Mercers' Hall for our 2026 London Lecture with Dr Miranda Kaufmann (2001, History). In her lecture, Heiresses and the House: Christ Church Men and Caribbean Slavery, Miranda will explore the stories of two heiresses with connections to Christ Church, followed by an opportunity for questions.

About the speaker:

Dr Miranda Kaufmann is the author of the Wolfson History Prize and Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize shortlisted book Black Tudors: The Untold Story (2017) and Heiresses: Marriage, Inheritance and Caribbean Slavery (2025). She read History at Christ Church, Oxford, where she also achieved two winning Rugby Blues, and is now an Honorary Fellow of the University of Liverpool, a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and of the Royal Society of Arts, and a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London, where she co-convened the 'What's Happening in Black British History?' workshop series from 2014 to 2022. She served as Lead Historian for the Colonial Countryside project collaborating with National Trust houses from 2019 to 2021; and has taken her work into schools with her Teaching Black Tudors project and to the world with her Black Tudors: The Untold Story course with FutureLearn. Visit www.mirandakaufmann.com for Dr Kaufmann's blog, published articles, podcasts, interviews and more.