Tudor Monastery Farm (2013)

Genre

documentary film

Country

United Kingdom

Length

1 season, 6 episodes

Rated

12+

Rating

9.1 of 10 from 7 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Three historians move onto a reconstructed Tudor farm and live like people did in the 1500s. They plow fields with oxen, harvest crops, and make cheese using period tools and methods.

informativerelaxedslow-pacedhands-onearthycuriousnostalgiceducational

What happens

Tudor Monastery Farm is a British factual television series, first broadcast on BBC Two on 13 November 2013. The series, the fifth in the historic farm series, following the original, Tales from the Green Valley, stars archaeologists Peter Ginn and Tom Pinfold, and historian Ruth Goodman. The team discover what farming was like during the Tudor period at the Weald and Downland Open Air Museum. The programme also features other historians, such as Colin Richards (an expert on rural crafts), and Ronald Hutton (who specialises in folklore and religious beliefs). Harrowing of the fields was carried out by the last remaining team of working oxen in the country. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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