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Week Two – Elizabethan Daily Life
In the second week of our HistoryExtra Academy Elizabethans course, Professor Tracy Borman explores everyday life in the 16th century – from food and fashion, to work and play
Published: August 20, 2024 at 12:39 PM
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In the second lecture of the HistoryExtra Academy Elizabethans course, Professor Tracy Borman explores everyday life in the 16th century – from food and fashion, to work and play
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The dark side of Elizabethan England
The Elizabethan era is often painted as a golden age. Yet, says James Sharpe, for thousands of people life was anything but golden, blighted by violence, vagrancy and crushing hunger
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Tudor dining: a guide to food and status in the 16th century
What, how and where people ate in Tudor times depended greatly on who they were: the rich nobility enjoyed lavish feasts of meat, seafood and sugary treats, while yeomen and labourers were restricted to a diet of bread, pottages and vegetables. Everything from the number of dishes eaten to the ways in which food was served was dictated by status: in 16th-century England, you truly were what you ate. Here, Melita Thomas, the editor of Tudor Times – a new website about daily life in the period – explores the etiquette of the Tudor dining table
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What did the Tudors wear?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.
Jane Malcolm-Davies unpicks the historical sources to uncover what people wore in the 16th century
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They were baptised and buried in parishes across the country, and even attended queens at court. So why, asks Onyeka, do we continue to airbrush black Africans out of Tudor England?
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Nicholas Orme uncovers what infancy and childhood were like in the 16th century
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The act of ‘doing history’ is one of reaching for something that has gone and is, therefore, out of reach. It is hardly surprising that we approach its remains objectively, picking over them with a pair of metaphorical tweezers. But what would we feel if the past were not out of reach? Ian Mortimer prepares prospective time travellers for the sights, sounds, smells and tastes that will await them in the 16th century...
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The danger, violence and misery experienced in Elizabethan England is charted in a book by Horrible Histories creator, Terry Deary
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Elizabethans quiz – week two. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.
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