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Malik Al Nasir is an author, performance poet and filmmaker from Liverpool. He has produced and appeared in several documentaries with Gil Scott-Heron, The Last Poets, Benjamin Zephaniah, Public Enemy, and many other luminaries. Malik started tracing his roots back through slavery over a 15 year period and his pioneering research has been recognised by the University of Cambridge, where Malik started a PhD in history in 2020 with a full scholarship.
Miranda Kaufmann is the author of the Wolfson History Prize and Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize-shortlisted book Black Tudors: The Untold Story (2017). She read History at Christ Church, Oxford 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. She has written for The Times, Guardian, TLS and History Today, among others. She lives in North Wales.
Paul Lashmar is an investigative journalist and Associate Professor of Journalism at City St George’s, University of London. He has taken an interest in the history of slavery since he developed a Channel 4 series on Britain’s slave trade in 1999. Paul has been on the staff of The Observer, Granada Television’s World in Action current affairs series and The Independent. He is the author, co-author or co-editor of six books and lives in Bridport. Paul is the author of history of the Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax family of Dorset and their role in the British sugar industry which was based on slavery in Barbados and Jamaica. Spanning 500 years and 18 generations, Drax of Drax Hall is based on painstaking archival research Drax of Drax Hall: How One British Family Got Rich (and Stayed Rich) from Sugar and Slavery. An unauthorised history of the Drax family. Pluto Books (2025).
