About this season
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.
Episodes (6)
1. Episode 1
10.0Aired 13 November 2013 • 60 min
Ruth Goodman, Peter Ginn and Tom Pinfold run a farm exactly as it would have been in 1500.
2. Episode 2
10.0Aired 20 November 2013 • 60 min
A look at wool production in 1500, which accounted for around half the country's wealth.
3. Episode 3
10.0Aired 27 November 2013 • 60 min
This episode focuses on the staple foods of everyday Tudor life - bread and ale.
4. Episode 4
10.0Aired 4 December 2013 • 60 min
The team learn how aspirational tenant farmers would have decorated their farmhouses.
5. Episode 5
10.0Aired 11 December 2013 • 60 min
The team explores Tudor hospitality, learning how the monasteries courted wealthy donors.
6. Episode 6
10.0Aired 18 December 2013 • 60 min
The team look back at how Henry VIII's Dissolution brought an end to monastic farming.