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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

The team explores Tudor hospitality, learning how the monasteries courted wealthy donors.

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 ...

There was some terrible TV last year. Channel 4 gave us ‘What’s cooking? From the Sainsbury’s Kitchen’, where Ben Shepherd and Lisa Faulkner plugged Sainsbury’s food for a full 13 weeks. Sky offered ...

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, ...

Archaeologist Peter Ginn and historian Ruth Goodman, who is also a leading specialist in Tudor domestic life, return to front this six-part series, following the success of living history series ...