Tudor Monastery Farm
Historian Ruth Goodman and archaeologists Peter Ginn and Tom Pinfold go back in time to run a monastery farm exactly as it would have been in 1500, during the reign of the first Tudor king, Henry VII.
Historian Ruth Goodman and archaeologists Peter Ginn and Tom Pinfold go back in time to run a monastery farm exactly as it would have been in 1500, during the reign of the first Tudor king, Henry VII.
Ruth, Peter and Tom tackle the domestic tasks involved in running a Tudor-era monastery farm, from lighting fires with...
Ruth, Peter and Tom try their hand at Tudor-era wool production, which accounted for around half the country's wealth....
It's the height of summer and our farmers are carefully monitoring cereal crops from which they'll make the staple foods...
The team learn how aspirational tenant farmers would have decorated their farmhouses. Ruth produces a wall hanging and...
Ruth, Peter and Tom explore hospitality in Tudor England. With no provision for the poor from the state, the monasteries...
It's harvest time and the dissolution of the monasteries is on the horizon. The team will be bringing in the barley and...