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9781631491399 English 1631491393 How To be a Tudor by Ruth Goodman - a time traveller's guide to Tudor England full of fascinating down-to-earth detail Enter the real Wolf Hall... We know about the big picture - the court of Henry VIII; the break from Rome, Elizabeth I and the Spanish Armada. But what was life really like for a commonor like you or me? Ruth Goodman has lived like a Tudor so you don't have to. Learn how to eat, sleep, wash, say your prayers, plough fields and write letters like a Tudor. Without banks, discover that credit is dependent on your appearance and fashion is the realm of men. Because sheep are miniature and prices are high, learn to mend your clothes yourself, your most prized possessions. This book will be enjoyed by anyone interested in Hilary Mantel's novels and the Tudor period. It will also appeal to readers of Lucy Worsley, Judith Flanders, Stephen Clarke and Dr Ian Mortimer. 'Wonderful, informative, startling . . . Goodman's unique selling proposition as a historian is that she walks the walk of her time period, even when that walk involves hard labor in a corset and a hoop skirt' The New York Times on How to be a Victorian 'Written with such passion ... will fascinate and inform anyone who is interested in Victorian ways of life' Dr Ian Mortimer, The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England Ruth Goodman is a historian who specializes in the everyday life of the past. She has written and presented numerous acclaimed BBC television series and is a regular presenter on the One Show. She is the author of How to be a Victorian, and has co-authored three other books, including the Number One Bestseller Victorian Farm., On the heels of her triumphant How to Be a Victorian, Ruth Goodman travels even further back in English history to the era closest to her heart, the dramatic period from the crowning of Henry VII to the death of Elizabeth I. Drawing on her own adventures living in re-created Tudor conditions, Goodman serves as our intrepid guide to sixteenth-century living. Proceeding from daybreak to bedtime, this charming, illustrative work celebrates the ordinary lives of those who labored through the era. From sounding the hue and cry to alert a village to danger to malting grain for homemade ale, from the gruesome sport of bear-baiting to cuckolding and cross-dressing the madcap habits and revealing intimacies of life in the time of Shakespeare are vividly rendered for the insatiably curious."
9781631491399 English 1631491393 How To be a Tudor by Ruth Goodman - a time traveller's guide to Tudor England full of fascinating down-to-earth detail Enter the real Wolf Hall... We know about the big picture - the court of Henry VIII; the break from Rome, Elizabeth I and the Spanish Armada. But what was life really like for a commonor like you or me? Ruth Goodman has lived like a Tudor so you don't have to. Learn how to eat, sleep, wash, say your prayers, plough fields and write letters like a Tudor. Without banks, discover that credit is dependent on your appearance and fashion is the realm of men. Because sheep are miniature and prices are high, learn to mend your clothes yourself, your most prized possessions. This book will be enjoyed by anyone interested in Hilary Mantel's novels and the Tudor period. It will also appeal to readers of Lucy Worsley, Judith Flanders, Stephen Clarke and Dr Ian Mortimer. 'Wonderful, informative, startling . . . Goodman's unique selling proposition as a historian is that she walks the walk of her time period, even when that walk involves hard labor in a corset and a hoop skirt' The New York Times on How to be a Victorian 'Written with such passion ... will fascinate and inform anyone who is interested in Victorian ways of life' Dr Ian Mortimer, The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England Ruth Goodman is a historian who specializes in the everyday life of the past. She has written and presented numerous acclaimed BBC television series and is a regular presenter on the One Show. She is the author of How to be a Victorian, and has co-authored three other books, including the Number One Bestseller Victorian Farm., On the heels of her triumphant How to Be a Victorian, Ruth Goodman travels even further back in English history to the era closest to her heart, the dramatic period from the crowning of Henry VII to the death of Elizabeth I. Drawing on her own adventures living in re-created Tudor conditions, Goodman serves as our intrepid guide to sixteenth-century living. Proceeding from daybreak to bedtime, this charming, illustrative work celebrates the ordinary lives of those who labored through the era. From sounding the hue and cry to alert a village to danger to malting grain for homemade ale, from the gruesome sport of bear-baiting to cuckolding and cross-dressing the madcap habits and revealing intimacies of life in the time of Shakespeare are vividly rendered for the insatiably curious."