External Rating56%
201360 minEnded

Tudor Monastery Farm

Network:BBC Two

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Aired on Dec 18, 2013, 9:00 PM

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Description

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.

Details

Status
Ended
Language
English
Runtime
60 min
Premiered
November 13, 2013
Ended
December 18, 2013
Schedule
Wednesday at 9:00 PM

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Episodes (1 Season · 6 Episodes)

Episode 1

Historian Ruth Goodman and archaeologists Peter Ginn and Tom Pinfold turn the clock back over 500 years to run a farm in West Sussex exactly as it would have been in 1500.

Nov 13, 2013

60 min

Episode 2

This episode focuses on wool production - known as 'the jewel in the realm' of the English economy.

Nov 20, 2013

60 min

Episode 3

This episode focuses on the staple foods of everyday Tudor life - bread and ale.

Nov 27, 2013

60 min

Episode 4

The team learn how important lead was as a building material, and experiment with a camera obscura.

Dec 4, 2013

60 min

Episode 5

The team explores Tudor hospitality, learning how the monasteries courted wealthy benefactors.

Dec 11, 2013

60 min

Episode 6

The team recreate the winter harvest and look at how Henry VIII's Dissolution changed farming life forever.

Dec 18, 2013

60 min

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