Tudor Monastery Farm Season 1
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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Tudor Monastery Farm
2013Historian 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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Tudor Monastery Farm Season 1 Full Episode Guide
The team look back at how Henry VIII's Dissolution brought an end to monastic farming.
The team explores Tudor hospitality, learning how the monasteries courted wealthy donors.
The team learn how aspirational tenant farmers would have decorated their farmhouses.
This episode focuses on the staple foods of everyday Tudor life - bread and ale.
A look at wool production in 1500, which accounted for around half the country's wealth.
Ruth Goodman, Peter Ginn and Tom Pinfold run a farm exactly as it would have been in 1500.