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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.
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.