Tudor Monastery Farm

Author : Peter Ginn,Ruth Goodman
Publisher : Random House
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781448141722

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Tudor Monastery Farm by Peter Ginn,Ruth Goodman Pdf

Ruth Goodman and Peter Ginn have become familiar faces on BBC2 after their hugely popular and immersive time-travelling experiments, Victorian, Edwardian and Wartime Farm. But for their fourth series, and our accompanying book, they have joined forces with Tom Pinfold to take on their biggest challenge yet: going back to Tudor England to endure the harsh realities of working for an Abbey Farm. Peter, Ruth and Tom are trained historians, driven by new research and discovery. They are passionate about bringing period details to life, and they do that for us by comprehensively inhabiting the era for months, using only materials, tools and technology available at the time, to earn their living, celebrate their holidays, clothe and feed themselves and their families. Follow them as they discover how to build a pigsty, brew their own ale, forge their own machinery and keep a Tudor household. Scrupulously researched, totally authentic and with its own contemporary narrative playing out within an accurate reconstruction of Tudor England, this is a fantastic glimpse into history, as it was lived. This is set to be Peter, Ruth and Tom’s most ambitious historical assignment yet.

Author : Ruth Goodman
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780241973714

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How To Be a Tudor by Ruth Goodman Pdf

TRAVEL BACK IN TIME WITH THE BBC'S RUTH GOODMAN We know all about the dramas that played out in the Tudor court - most notably those of Henry VIII - but what was life really like for a commoner like you or me? To answer this question, the renowned "method historian" Ruth Goodman has slept, washed and cooked as the Tudors did - so you don't have to! She is your expert guide to this fascinating era, drawing on years of practical historical study to show how our ancestors coped with everyday life. Using a vast range of sources, she takes you back to when soot was used as toothpaste and the "upper crust" was served to the wealthier members of the house. Exploring how the Tudors learnt, danced and even stood according to the latest fashion, she reveals what it all felt, smelt and tasted like, from morning until night. If you enjoyed the writing of Hilary Mantel and Philippa Gregory, you will love discovering the true stories. ***** 'Ruth is the queen of living history, long may she reign!' Lucy Worsley 'A deeply researched and endlessly fascinating account of what it was like to live as a Tudor' Tracy Borman, author of Thomas Cromwell 'Always entertaining, and her narrative is often lifted by the fact that she has taken the trouble to experience many of the alien aspects of Tudor life' Observer 'Goodman's latest foray into immersive history is a revelation . . . It's the next best thing to being there' Sarah Ferguson, New York Times Book Review

Author : Ruth Goodman
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2013-06-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780241958346

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How to be a Victorian by Ruth Goodman Pdf

TRAVEL BACK IN TIME WITH THE BBC'S RUTH GOODMAN We know what life was like for Victoria and Albert. But what was it like for a commoner - like you or me? How did it feel to cook with coal and wash with tea leaves? Drink beer for breakfast and clean your teeth with cuttlefish? Catch the omnibus to work and do the laundry in your corset? How to be a Victorian is a radical new approach to history; a journey back in time more personal than anything before, illuminating the overlapping worlds of health, sex, fashion, food, school, work and play. Surviving everyday life came down to the gritty details, the small necessities and tricks of living and this book will show you how. ______________________ 'Goodman skilfully creates a portrait of daily Victorian life with accessible, compelling, and deeply sensory prose' Erin Entrada Kelly 'We're lucky to have such a knowledgeable cicerone as Ruth Goodman . . . Revelatory' Alexandra Kimball 'Goodman's research is impeccable . . . taking the reader through an average day and presenting the oddities of life without condescension' Patricia Hagen

Author : Ruth Goodman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-16
Category : History
ISBN : 1324091037

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The Domestic Revolution by Ruth Goodman Pdf

Author : Ruth Goodman
Publisher : Michael O'Mara Books
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2018-04-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781782438526

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How to Behave Badly in Renaissance Britain by Ruth Goodman Pdf

Historian and popular BBC TV presenter Ruth Goodman, author of How to Be a Tudor, offers up a history of Renaissance Britain - the offensive language, insulting gestures, insolent behaviour, brawling and scandal of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries - with practical tips on just how to horrify the Tudor neighbours. From royalty to peasantry, every age has its bad eggs, those who break all the rules and rub everyone up the wrong way. But their niggling, anti-social and irritating ways not only tell us about what upset people, but also what mattered to them, how their society functioned and what kind of world they lived in. In this brilliantly nitty-gritty exploration of real life in the Tudor and Stuart age, you will discover: - how to choose the perfect insult, whether it be draggletail, varlet, flap, saucy fellow, strumpet, ninny-hammer or stinkard - why quoting Shakespeare was very poor form - the politics behind men kissing each other on the lips - why flashing the inside of your hat could repulse someone - the best way to mock accents, preachers, soldiers and pretty much everything else besides Ruth Goodman draws upon advice books and manuals, court cases and sermons, drama and imagery to outline bad behaviour from the gauche to the galling, the subtle to the outrageous. It is a celebration of drunkards, scolds, harridans and cross dressers in a time when calling a man a fool could get someone killed, and cursing wasn't just rude, it worked! 'Ruth is the queen of living history - long may she reign!' Lucy Worsley

Author : H. R. Naylor
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2022-09-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547305224

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The Mystery of Monastery Farm by H. R. Naylor Pdf

The Mystery of Monastery Farm is an 1800s mystery novel about three men who conduct an ingenious heist. The thieves plunder the Bank of England – however, there is a slight complication. Will they live the rest of their lives in happy wealth? Or will these crimes lead them down a far worse road?

Author : James Clark
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 717 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300264180

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The Dissolution of the Monasteries by James Clark Pdf

The first account of the dissolution of the monasteries for fifty years—exploring its profound impact on the people of Tudor England “This is a book about people, though, not ideas, and as a detailed account of an extraordinary human drama with a cast of thousands, it is an exceptional piece of historical writing.”—Lucy Wooding, Times Literary Supplement Shortly before Easter, 1540 saw the end of almost a millennium of monastic life in England. Until then religious houses had acted as a focus for education, literary, and artistic expression and even the creation of regional and national identity. Their closure, carried out in just four years between 1536 and 1540, caused a dislocation of people and a disruption of life not seen in England since the Norman Conquest. Drawing on the records of national and regional archives as well as archaeological remains, James Clark explores the little-known lives of the last men and women who lived in England’s monasteries before the Reformation. Clark challenges received wisdom, showing that buildings were not immediately demolished and Henry VIII’s subjects were so attached to the religious houses that they kept fixtures and fittings as souvenirs. This rich, vivid history brings back into focus the prominent place of abbeys, priories, and friaries in the lives of the English people.

Author : Ruth Goodman
Publisher : Anova Books
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2009-11-02
Category : History
ISBN : 1862058717

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Victorian Farm - Christmas Edition by Ruth Goodman Pdf

This book follows the Victorian Farm team as they try to run a farm using only materials and resources that would have been available to them in the Victorian era.

Author : Mary Beard
Publisher : Liveright Publishing
Page : 461 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2023-10-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781631494109

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Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient Roman World by Mary Beard Pdf

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Best Books of 2023: New Yorker, The Economist, Smithsonian Most Anticipated Books of Fall: Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, TODAY, Literary Hub, and Publishers Weekly "A vivid way to re-examine what we know, and don’t, about life at the top.... Emperor of Rome is a masterly group portrait, an invitation to think skeptically but not contemptuously of a familiar civilization." —Kyle Harper, Wall Street Journal A sweeping account of the social and political world of the Roman emperors by “the world’s most famous classicist” (Guardian). In her international bestseller SPQR, Mary Beard told the thousand-year story of ancient Rome, from its slightly shabby Iron Age origins to its reign as the undisputed hegemon of the Mediterranean. Now, drawing on more than thirty years of teaching and writing about Roman history, Beard turns to the emperors who ruled the Roman Empire, beginning with Julius Caesar (assassinated 44 BCE) and taking us through the nearly three centuries—and some thirty emperors—that separate him from the boy-king Alexander Severus (assassinated 235 CE). Yet Emperor of Rome is not your typical chronological account of Roman rulers, one emperor after another: the mad Caligula, the monster Nero, the philosopher Marcus Aurelius. Instead, Beard asks different, often larger and more probing questions: What power did emperors actually have? Was the Roman palace really so bloodstained? What kind of jokes did Augustus tell? And for that matter, what really happened, for example, between the emperor Hadrian and his beloved Antinous? Effortlessly combining the epic with the quotidian, Beard tracks the emperor down at home, at the races, on his travels, even on his way to heaven. Along the way, Beard explores Roman fictions of imperial power, overturning many of the assumptions that we hold as gospel, not the least of them the perception that emperors one and all were orchestrators of extreme brutality and cruelty. Here Beard introduces us to the emperor’s wives and lovers, rivals and slaves, court jesters and soldiers, and the ordinary people who pressed begging letters into his hand—whose chamber pot disputes were adjudicated by Augustus, and whose budgets were approved by Vespasian, himself the son of a tax collector. With its finely nuanced portrayal of sex, class, and politics, Emperor of Rome goes directly to the heart of Roman fantasies (and our own) about what it was to be Roman at its richest, most luxurious, most extreme, most powerful, and most deadly, offering an account of Roman history as it has never been presented before.

Author : Peter Ginn,Ruth Goodman
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2016-07-28
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9780008194321

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Full Steam Ahead: How the Railways Made Britain by Peter Ginn,Ruth Goodman Pdf

The Age of Railways was an era of extraordinary change which utterly transformed every aspect of British life – from trade and transportation to health and recreation.

Author : Anthony Fitzherbert
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : OXFORD:300005201

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The Book of Husbandry by Anthony Fitzherbert Pdf

Author : Peter Ginn,Ruth Goodman,Alexander Langlands
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2012-09-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781845337407

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Wartime Farm by Peter Ginn,Ruth Goodman,Alexander Langlands Pdf

During World War Two Britain had to look to the land to provide the produce it had previously shipped in from abroad, meaning huge changes on both the agricultural and domestic scenes. Accompanying an 8-part BBC series and written by the three presenters who spend a year living on a reconstructed farm from the era, Wartime Farm sets these changes within a historical context and looks at the day-to-day life of that time. Exploring a fascinating chapter in Britain's recent history, we see how our predecessors lived and thrived in difficult conditions with extreme frugality and ingenuity. From growing your own vegetables and keeping chickens in the back yard, to having to 'make do and mend', many of the challenges faced by wartime Britons have resonance today. Fascinating historical detail and atmospheric story-telling make this a truly compelling read.

Author : H. Naylor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2004-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1414297718

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The Mystery of Monastery Farm by H. Naylor Pdf

Author : James Edwin Thorold Rogers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 602 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : UGA:32108001725087

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Six Centuries of Work & Wages by James Edwin Thorold Rogers Pdf

Author : David Macaulay
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0395329205

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Castle by David Macaulay Pdf

"Text and detailed drawings follow the planning and construction of a "typical" castle and adjoining town in thirteenth-century Wales."--Title page verso.