Tudor Monastery Farm: Life in Rural England 500 Years Ago

About this book

Ruth Goodman and Peter Ginn have become familiar faces on BBC2 after their hugely popular and immersive time-travelling experiments Victorian Edwardian and Wartime Farm. But for their fourth series and our accompanying book they have joined forces with Tom Pinfold to take on their biggest challenge yet: going back to Tudor England to endure the harsh realities of working for an Abbey Farm. Peter Ruth and Tom are trained historians driven by new research and discovery. They are passionate about bringing period details to life and they do that for us by comprehensively inhabiting the era for months using only materials tools and technology available at the time to earn their living celebrate their holidays and clothe and feed themselves and their families. Follow them as they discover how to build a pigsty brew their own ale forge their own machinery and keep a Tudor household. Scrupulously researched totally authentic and with its own contemporary narrative playing out within an accurate reconstruction of Tudor England this is a fantastic glimpse into history as it was lived. This is set to be Peter Ruth and Toms most ambitious historical assignment yet.