Synopsis
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
Season 11
Episode 1Ruth Goodman, Peter Ginn and Tom Pinfold run a farm exactly as it would have been in 1500.60m2
Episode 2A look at wool production in 1500, which accounted for around half the country's wealth.60m3
Episode 3This episode focuses on the staple foods of everyday Tudor life - bread and ale.60m4
Episode 4The team learn how aspirational tenant farmers would have decorated their farmhouses.60m5
Episode 5The team explores Tudor hospitality, learning how the monasteries courted wealthy donors.60m6
Episode 6The team look back at how Henry VIII's Dissolution brought an end to monastic farming.60m
Episode 1Ruth Goodman, Peter Ginn and Tom Pinfold run a farm exactly as it would have been in 1500.60m2Episode 2A look at wool production in 1500, which accounted for around half the country's wealth.60m3Episode 3This episode focuses on the staple foods of everyday Tudor life - bread and ale.60m4Episode 4The team learn how aspirational tenant farmers would have decorated their farmhouses.60m5Episode 5The team explores Tudor hospitality, learning how the monasteries courted wealthy donors.60m6Episode 6The team look back at how Henry VIII's Dissolution brought an end to monastic farming.60mCast
