Tudor Monastery Farm (2013)
⭐ 9.11 seasonsDocumentary, Reality
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.
📺 Seasons & Episodes
Specials1 episodes
Season 16 episodes
1. Episode 1
⏱ 60 minRuth Goodman, Peter Ginn and Tom Pinfold run a farm exactly as it would have been in 1500.
2. Episode 2
⏱ 60 minA look at wool production in 1500, which accounted for around half the country's wealth.
3. Episode 3
⏱ 60 minThis episode focuses on the staple foods of everyday Tudor life - bread and ale.
4. Episode 4
⏱ 60 minThe team learn how aspirational tenant farmers would have decorated their farmhouses.
5. Episode 5
⏱ 60 minThe team explores Tudor hospitality, learning how the monasteries courted wealthy donors.
6. Episode 6
⏱ 60 minThe team look back at how Henry VIII's Dissolution brought an end to monastic farming.
