Last night we watched on YouTube the second episode of Tudor Monastery Farm, the BBC reality/documentary series in which two archeologists and a historian live out the daily lives of tenant farmers on ...

Yesterday a reader recommended that I take a look at the 2013 BBC2 documentary/reality series Tudor Monastery Farm, episodes of which are available on YouTube. Last night I watched the first episode, ...

Historian Ruth Goodman and archaeologists Peter Ginn and Tom Pinfold turn the clock back over 500 years to run a farm at the Weald & Downland Open Air Museum in West Sussex exactly as it would have ...

Ruth Goodman and Claire King sort through sheep fleeces in Tudor Monastery Farm Credit: Photo: BBC “Lord let us remember just how much effort goes into putting food on the table.” Peter Ginn’s weary ...

Why are we all still so fascinated by the Tudors? We take a trip to a 16th century farm to find out Peter Ginn, Ruth Goodman, Tom Pinfold on the set of Tudor Monastery Farm Credit: Photo: BBC/Lion ...

This week the team learns to master the landscape away from the farm in order to supplement its income. While Tom and Peter mine their own lead, Ruth uses baskets she's made to catch eels in rivers.

I thought The Great Penguin Rescue (Eden) was bad. Over at Tudor Monastery Farm (BBC2), Ruth was showing us how the Tudors combed their hair, Peter – or it might have been Tom – had a wicker basket on ...

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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, ...

Following the long-running success of BBC Two’s living history series, Victorian, Edwardian and Wartime Farm, this autumn BBC Two takes up residence in the stunning medieval landscape of Weald and ...