Tudor Monastery Farm
★ 9.1 · 2013 · 60m · 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.
Episodes
1. Episode 160m · Ruth Goodman, Peter Ginn and Tom Pinfold run a farm exactly as it would have been in 1500.
2. Episode 260m · A look at wool production in 1500, which accounted for around half the country's wealth.
3. Episode 360m · This episode focuses on the staple foods of everyday Tudor life - bread and ale.
4. Episode 460m · The team learn how aspirational tenant farmers would have decorated their farmhouses.
5. Episode 560m · The team explores Tudor hospitality, learning how the monasteries courted wealthy donors.
6. Episode 660m · The team look back at how Henry VIII's Dissolution brought an end to monastic farming.More Like This
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