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Back up to: Tudor Monastery Farm

  1. Episode 6

    6/6The team look back at how Henry VIII's Dissolution brought an end to monastic farming.

  2. Episode 5

    5/6The team explores Tudor hospitality, learning how the monasteries courted wealthy donors.

  3. Episode 4

    4/6The team learn how aspirational tenant farmers would have decorated their farmhouses.

  4. Episode 3

    3/6This episode focuses on the staple foods of everyday Tudor life - bread and ale.

  5. Episode 2

    2/6A look at wool production in 1500 - which accounted for around half the country's wealth.

  6. Episode 1

    1/6Ruth Goodman, Peter Ginn and Tom Pinfold run a farm exactly as it would have been in 1500.