Tudor Monastery Farm
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Documentary
Reality
Seasons | 1
Episodes | 6
avg.Runtime | 60 min
First EP | 2013-11-13
Last EP | 2013-12-18
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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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Lion Television
Season List
season 1 || Season 1
Relesed on | 2013-11-13
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Episode 1
2013-11-13
Ruth Goodman, Peter Ginn and Tom Pinfold run a farm exactly as it would have been in 1500.
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Episode 2
2013-11-20
A look at wool production in 1500, which accounted for around half the country's wealth.
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Episode 3
2013-11-27
This episode focuses on the staple foods of everyday Tudor life - bread and ale.
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Episode 4
2013-12-04
The team learn how aspirational tenant farmers would have decorated their farmhouses.
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Episode 5
2013-12-11
The team explores Tudor hospitality, learning how the monasteries courted wealthy donors.
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Episode 6
2013-12-18
The team look back at how Henry VIII's Dissolution brought an end to monastic farming.
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