Tudor Monastery Farm
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.
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Seasons
Season 0 (2013)
No overview available.
1 episodes
Season 1 (2013)
No overview available.
6 episodes
Episodes
Episode 1: Episode 1
2013-11-13Ruth Goodman, Peter Ginn and Tom Pinfold run a farm exactly as it would have been in 1500.
Runtime: 60 minEpisode 2: Episode 2
2013-11-20A look at wool production in 1500, which accounted for around half the country's wealth.
Runtime: 60 minEpisode 3: Episode 3
2013-11-27This episode focuses on the staple foods of everyday Tudor life - bread and ale.
Runtime: 60 minEpisode 4: Episode 4
2013-12-04The team learn how aspirational tenant farmers would have decorated their farmhouses.
Runtime: 60 minEpisode 5: Episode 5
2013-12-11The team explores Tudor hospitality, learning how the monasteries courted wealthy donors.
Runtime: 60 minEpisode 6: Episode 6
2013-12-18The team look back at how Henry VIII's Dissolution brought an end to monastic farming.
Runtime: 60 min
