Tudor Monastery Farm
2013 · Documentary, Reality · 1 Season · 6 Episodes ·
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
1. Episode 1Ruth Goodman, Peter Ginn and Tom Pinfold run a farm exactly as it would have been in 1500.
2. Episode 2A look at wool production in 1500, which accounted for around half the country's wealth.
3. Episode 3This episode focuses on the staple foods of everyday Tudor life - bread and ale.
4. Episode 4The team learn how aspirational tenant farmers would have decorated their farmhouses.
5. Episode 5The team explores Tudor hospitality, learning how the monasteries courted wealthy donors.
6. Episode 6The team look back at how Henry VIII's Dissolution brought an end to monastic farming.
