Peter Ginn

Peter Ginn is an expert archaeologist and historian

He has been involved in a great deal of experimental archaeology. His research interests include Egyptology, field archaeology and primitive technologies, and he specialises in 19th-century farming practice.

Monasteries were seen as a brand.
Peter Ginn

Peter has been involved in several of the BBC's historical documentary series of recent years, including Tales from the Green Valley, A Tudor Feast At Christmas, Victorian Farm,Edwardian Farm and Wartime Farm.

Speaking to the Chichester Observer about the making of Tudor Monastery Farm, Peter said: "Monasteries were seen as a brand. It is amazing how much the monasteries were a source of craft and entrepreneurial spirit. In farming there was a remarkably smooth transition over the reformation period."