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How to Be a Tudor
- A Dawn-to-Dusk Guide to Everyday Life
- Narrated by: Patience Tomlinson
- Length: 11 hrs and 13 mins
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Summary
The Tudor era encompasses some of the greatest changes in our history. But while we know about the historical dramas of the times, what was life really like for a commoner?
To answer this question, the renowned 'method historian' Ruth Goodman has slept, washed and cooked as the Tudors did. She is your expert guide to this fascinating era, drawing on years of practical historical study to show how our ancestors coped with everyday life, from how they slept to how they courted.
Exploring how the Tudors learnt, danced and even sat and stood according to the latest fashion, she reveals what it all felt, smelt and tasted like, from morning until night.
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- Tim Woolhouse
- 22-01-18
Superb
What a great account of all aspects of life in that period. Highly recommend this audiobook!
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- miss Amanda.Christie
- 16-11-17
BRILLIANT!
Fascinating insight into how we lived in Tudor times- And what we got up to !!!
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- Client d'Amazon
- 11-02-19
History tried and tested.
Lovely book. Informative as well as entertaining.. Covers most aspects of Tudor life and manages to be funny at the same time.
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- WinnyWishes
- 29-01-21
so much information
last book I listened to from Ruth narrated her self so it took me a while to get my head round some one else doing the speaking but I will register to this over again as it has so much information in the content, totally worth it
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- Ian Smith
- 20-02-20
Excellent and engaging
I really enjoyed this book, as in many ways it fleshed out the other books I'd read about late medieval England. The fact that Ruth has done her best to "live the life" really helped her describe, if not the reality, something very close to it. The narrator did a good job, but (editing oversight?) there were sometimes surprisingly long gaps between what I assume were paragraphs or sections.
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- andrea
- 21-01-18
relaxing and informative
I love this book. I enjoy listening to it again and again. I find the subject gentle yet infinitely interesting due to the detail in which is written. however it is also beautifully read, something I found to be very consoling, through a recently scare stay in hospital. the two combined make this a perfect book.
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- Teresa Cooper
- 05-03-23
The Tudor what is.......
I loved this book for several reasons. Primarily because this book is so easy to listen to and understand by everyone. I think Ruth Goodman is a marvellous historian and shows how life was through enacting daily life. Her writing is clear and easy to follow and shows the lives of ordinary people. And as a historian I greatly admire all the research that is undertake to produce work of this depth
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- JKH
- 27-04-20
In-depth good read
Excellent insight to what life was for the ordinary people during this historic period. Very well written and read clearly.
A do not miss to while away the hours. 10/10 from me.
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- Chloe Haskett
- 20-10-21
Relaxing and informative
If you liked Ruth Goodman in any of her TV shows and wanted to listen to even more of her extensive knowledge, you will love this. Each section flows naturally from another and you'll find yourself wanting to keep listening, but there is always a good place to stop if you need to do something else. Just a relaxing, informative look at how a Tudor would have lived their lives.
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- Ms Nightingale
- 21-02-23
Comprehensive and informative
I enjoyed this enormously. I love the well-chosen examples and clear referencing. I did have to try and imagine it was being read in the voice of Ruth Goodman, though. The narration is clear and well-paced, but Ruth always brings an added shine of joy and twinkle-eyed mischief that enhances her books.
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