Thanks to reader CW for turning me onto this book! How to be a Tudor is a book written by a re-enactor about the nuts and bolts of everyday life for Tudor-period people.

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"How to Behave Badly in Elizabethan England: A Guide for Knaves, Fools, Harlots, Cuckolds, Drunkards, Liars, Thieves, and Braggarts" by Ruth Goodman book recommendation by Rachel Sylvan Petty, Passive Aggressive, Socially Transgressive, Funny book, hilarious book, nonfiction book, real history, everyday life, Book Rec

Hello, Sunshines, I have the huge pleasure to be apart of the blog tour for the wonderful; The Domestic Revolution by Ruth Goodman. I am super excited to share this book and my review with you all, even though I am a day late. Firstly, I want to say thank you to Kelly and Meggy…

Ruth has been badgering producers of the popular farm series to do a Tudor version since it started four years ago. ‘That they finally listened is a dream come true,’ she laughs.

No electricity, no gas, no flushing toilet?and no tractor! Could you survive a year on a Victorian farm? In this fascinating time-traveling experiment Lion Television, with the BBC, follow a team of historians who will spend a year recreating farm life in 1885. Accompanying the series, this book ...

Historians Ruth Goodman, Alex Langlands and Peter Ginn visit Beamish in County Durham to examine how railway companies began to develop ways of moving people...

Bergdorf Goodman, New York, "Blue Foam", (Insulation made from denim/jean scraps', pinned by Ton van der Veer

From dawn to dusk, a social historian sees for herself the intricacies of life in Victorian England.

Historian Ruth Goodman and archaeologists Peter Ginn and Tom Pinfold turn the clock back as they learn how to build a medieval castle using the tools, techni...

In Cunning Folk: Life in the Era of Practical Magic, historian Tabitha Stanmore will transport readers to a time when magic was used day-to-day as a way to navigate life's challenges and to solve problems of both trivial and deadly importance. Imagine: it’s 1600 and you’ve lost your precious silver spoons – or perhaps your neighbour has stolen them. Or maybe your child has a fever. Or you’re facing trial. Or you’re looking for love. Or you're hoping to escape a husband … What do you do? In medieval and early modern Europe, your first port of call might very well have been cunning folk: practitioners of ‘service magic’. Neither feared (like witches), nor venerated (like saints), they were essential to everyday life, a ubiquitous presence in a time when the supernatural was surprisingly mundane. For people from all walks of life, practical magic was a cherished resource with which to navigate life’s many challenges. In Tabitha Stanmore’s beguiling account, we meet lovelorn widows and dissolute nobles, selfless healers and renegade monks. We listen in on Queen Elizabeth I’s astrology readings and track treasure hunters trying to unearth buried gold without upsetting the fairies that guard it. Much like us, premodern people lived in bewildering times, buffeted by forces beyond their control; and as Stanmore reveals, their faith in magic has much to teach us about how we accommodate ourselves to the irrational in our allegedly enlightened lives today. Told with warmth, wit and above all, empathy, these stories take us deep into people’s day-to-day lives: their hopes and desires, their fears and vulnerabilities. Charming in every sense of the word, Cunning Folk is an immersive reconstruction of a bygone world and a thought-provoking commentary on the beauty and bafflement of being human.

A historian attempts to follow Tudor hygiene with a daily regime of linen underwear.

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In 2005 there was an excellent 12 part (1/2 hour each) BBC series called Tales from the Green Valley. It documents 3 archaeologists and 2 historians who spent 12 months working on a restored 1620 Welsh hill farm. This is no silly "reality" show with contestants and challenges or a social experiment. These were 5 people who labored…