Tudor Monastery Farm
8.6
2013
Documentary
, Reality
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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- Cast:
- Ruth Goodman
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EP1 - Episode 1
November. 13,2013
Ruth Goodman, Peter Ginn and Tom Pinfold run a farm exactly as it would have been in 1500.
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EP2 - Episode 2
November. 20,2013
A look at wool production in 1500, which accounted for around half the country's wealth.
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EP3 - Episode 3
November. 27,2013
This episode focuses on the staple foods of everyday Tudor life - bread and ale.
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EP4 - Episode 4
December. 04,2013
The team learn how aspirational tenant farmers would have decorated their farmhouses.
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EP5 - Episode 5
December. 11,2013
The team explores Tudor hospitality, learning how the monasteries courted wealthy donors.
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EP6 - Episode 6
December. 18,2013
The team look back at how Henry VIII's Dissolution brought an end to monastic farming.
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