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.
Episode 1
Ruth Goodman, Peter Ginn and Tom Pinfold run a farm exactly as it would have been in 1500.
Episode 2
A look at wool production in 1500, which accounted for around half the country's wealth.
Episode 3
This episode focuses on the staple foods of everyday Tudor life - bread and ale.
Episode 4
The team learn how aspirational tenant farmers would have decorated their farmhouses.
Episode 5
The team explores Tudor hospitality, learning how the monasteries courted wealthy donors.
Episode 6
The team look back at how Henry VIII's Dissolution brought an end to monastic farming.
Tom Pinfold
Self - Presenter
Peter Ginn
Ruth Goodman
2019 · ★ 8.0
2007 · ★ 6.9
2020 · ★ 7.7
2007 · ★ 8.1
2011 · ★ 8.3
1997 · ★ 7.3
2012 · ★ 7.3
2019 · ★ 7.4
2010 · ★ 8.8
2022 · ★ 8.3
2014 · ★ 7.2
2019 · ★ 8.4
1997 · ★ 7.4
1988 · ★ 6.5
2004 · ★ 8.2
1979 · ★ 6.7
2015 · ★ 8.1
2016 · ★ 6.5
2013 · ★ 7.7
2020 · ★ 7.4
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