Tudor Monastery Farm (2013)
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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Season 1 Episode List
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Episode 1 - Episode 1
Release Date: 2013-11-13Ruth Goodman, Peter Ginn and Tom Pinfold run a farm exactly as it would have been in 1500.
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Episode 2 - Episode 2
Release Date: 2013-11-20A look at wool production in 1500, which accounted for around half the country's wealth.
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Episode 3 - Episode 3
Release Date: 2013-11-27This episode focuses on the staple foods of everyday Tudor life - bread and ale.
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Episode 4 - Episode 4
Release Date: 2013-12-04The team learn how aspirational tenant farmers would have decorated their farmhouses.
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Episode 5 - Episode 5
Release Date: 2013-12-11The team explores Tudor hospitality, learning how the monasteries courted wealthy donors.
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Episode 6 - Episode 6
Release Date: 2013-12-18The team look back at how Henry VIII's Dissolution brought an end to monastic farming.