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The Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England

Ian Mortimer transports viewers back to Elizabethan England and reveals, in vivid detail, a living, breathing Tudor world. Viewers learn how ordinary Tudor housewives turned plants into medicine, how the middle classes kept themselves clean using linen cloths, how the poor made pottage, how cooks of the rich devised recipes for new ingredients, and how Tudors learned to read and write.

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Ian Mortimer
Self - Presenter

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Episode 1

Episode #1.1

52 mins

Travel back in time to the dirt, drama and glamour of Elizabethan England: abandon your 21st century perspective and imagine what it was really like to live hundreds of years ago. Plunge back 500 years in time and learn to think and behave like an Elizabethan, in case that time machine arrives.

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