What was life under the feudal system really like? Medieval society was based on a restrictive system where serfs worked on the land of their lord...
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...
Ruth Goodman and archaeologists Peter Ginn and Tom Pinfold prepare for the dark winter ahead. But, not before they celebrate their bountiful harvest with a feast,...
The team explores the hospitality and housing of Tudor England. With no provision for the poor from the state, the monasteries played a key role in...
The Tudor industry of wool production was known as `the jewel in the realm’ of the English economy, it accounted for around half the country’s wealth....
The Dark Ages have been misunderstood. History has identified the period following the fall of the Roman Empire as a descent into barbarism – a terrible...
