[3][4] Since 2014, Kaufmann has been co-convenor, together with art and cultural historian Michael Ohajuru,[5] of the workshop series "What's Happening in Black British History?"

[8][9][10] Kaufmann has written articles for a range of publications, including The Times Literary Supplement, The Times, The Guardian, and BBC History magazine,[11] has contributed to features about Black British History on radio, television and video,[12][13] as well as appearing on Sky News, Al Jazeera and BBC Television.

[3][15] She advised on the Tudor episode of David Olusoga's 2016 BBC Television documentary series Black and British: A Forgotten History.

[17] As Bidisha observed in The Guardian, the book "debunks the idea that slavery was the beginning of Africans’ presence in England, and exploitation and discrimination their only experience.

[...] Along with writers such as David Olusoga, Paul Gilroy and Sunny Singh, and institutions such as the University of York, which has launched a project investigating medieval multiculturalism, historians such as Miranda Kaufmann are bringing England to a necessary reckoning with its true history.