Tudor Monastery Farm
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. From sheep farming to fashioning a printing press, our hosts are put through their paces to give viewers a realistic account of what life would have been like in 1500, during the reign of the first Tudor King, Henry VII.
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. From sheep farming to fashioning a printing press, our hosts are put through their paces to give viewers a realistic account of what life would have been like in 1500, during the reign of the first Tudor King, Henry VII.
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