Tudor Monastery Farm(2013)

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Overview

Historian Ruth Goodman and archaeologists Peter Ginn and Tom Pinfold turn the clock back 500 years to the early Tudor period to become tenant farmers on monastery land.

Episodes

Episode 1
Ep 1

Episode 1

Ruth Goodman, Peter Ginn and Tom Pinfold run a farm exactly as it would have been in 1500.

13/11/201360 min
Episode 2
Ep 2

Episode 2

A look at wool production in 1500, which accounted for around half the country's wealth.

20/11/201360 min
Episode 3
Ep 3

Episode 3

This episode focuses on the staple foods of everyday Tudor life - bread and ale.

27/11/201360 min
Episode 4
Ep 4

Episode 4

The team learn how aspirational tenant farmers would have decorated their farmhouses.

04/12/201360 min
Episode 5
Ep 5

Episode 5

The team explores Tudor hospitality, learning how the monasteries courted wealthy donors.

11/12/201360 min
Episode 6
Ep 6

Episode 6

The team look back at how Henry VIII's Dissolution brought an end to monastic farming.

18/12/201360 min

Show Info

StatusEnded
NetworkBBC Two
TypeDocumentary

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