Web Sites

​http://www.mirandakaufmann.com

http://blackbritishhistory.co.uk

http://www.blackpast.org/aah/blanke-john-16th-century

https://manyheadedmonster.wordpress.com/2015/07/27/john-blanke-henry-viiis-black-trumpeter-petitions-for-a-back-dated-pay-increase-2/

Books

Kaufmann, M. (2017) Black Tudors, Oneworld, London

Olusoga, D (2106) Black and British: A Forgotten History , Macmillan.London 

OCR GCSE History SHP: Migrants to Britain c.1250 to present Paperback – 29 Jul 2016 by Martin Spafford (Author), Dan Lyndon

T. Dumitrescu, The Early Tudor Court and International Musical Relations (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007)

Onyeka. Blackamoores: Africans in Tudor England, their Presence, Status and Origins, London. Narrative Eye, 2013.

K. J. P. Lowe, Black Africans In Renaissance Europe, Cambridge University Press, 2005, ISBN 0521815827, p. 39.

David Bindman, Henry Louis Gates, Karen C. C. Dalton, The Image of the Black in Western Art: pt. 1. From the 'age of discovery' to the age of abolition: artists of the Renaissance and Baroque, Volume 3, Part 1 of The Image of the Black in Western Art; 

Articles

​Italian Wind Instrumentalists at the Scottish Royal Court during the 16th Century Author(s): Alexander McGrattan
Source: Early Music, Vol. 29, No. 4 (Nov., 2001), pp. 534-551

The Minstrels of the English Royal Households, 25 Edward I - 1 Henry VIII: An Inventory Author(s): Richard Rastall
Source: R.M.A. Research Chronicle, No. 4 (1964), pp. 1-41

The Medieval Dress and Textile Society September 2014 www.medats.org.uk Issue 75 pp 6

Bulletin of John Rylands Library xliii,
Volume 43 1960 - 1961 The Court Festivals of Henry VII:
A Study Based Upon the Account Books of 
John Heron, Treasurer of the Chamber
By Sydney Anglo, B.A., Ph.D.
Research Fellow of the University of Reading

Miranda Kaufmann, "Blanke, John (fl. 1507–1512), royal trumpeter", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.