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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Ep 1★ 10.02013-11-13
Episode 1
Ruth Goodman, Peter Ginn and Tom Pinfold run a farm exactly as it would have …
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Ep 2★ 10.02013-11-20
Episode 2
A look at wool production in 1500, which accounted for around half the country's wealth.
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Ep 3★ 10.02013-11-27
Episode 3
This episode focuses on the staple foods of everyday Tudor life - bread and ale.
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Ep 4★ 10.02013-12-04
Episode 4
The team learn how aspirational tenant farmers would have decorated their farmhouses.
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Ep 5★ 10.02013-12-11
Episode 5
The team explores Tudor hospitality, learning how the monasteries courted wealthy donors.
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Ep 6★ 10.02013-12-18
Episode 6
The team look back at how Henry VIII's Dissolution brought an end to monastic farming.