Tudor Monastery Farm

Tudor Monastery Farm

2013
1 Season
9.1
DocumentaryReality

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

Episode 1
E1Nov 13, 20131h

Episode 1

Ruth Goodman, Peter Ginn and Tom Pinfold run a farm exactly as it would have been in 1500.

Episode 2
E2Nov 20, 20131h

Episode 2

A look at wool production in 1500, which accounted for around half the country's wealth.

Episode 3
E3Nov 27, 20131h

Episode 3

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

Episode 4
E4Dec 4, 20131h

Episode 4

The team learn how aspirational tenant farmers would have decorated their farmhouses.

Episode 5
E5Dec 11, 20131h

Episode 5

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

Episode 6
E6Dec 18, 20131h

Episode 6

The team look back at how Henry VIII's Dissolution brought an end to monastic farming.

Top Cast

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Tom Pinfold

Self - Presenter

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Peter Ginn

Self - Presenter

Ruth Goodman

Ruth Goodman

Self - Presenter