In my Claire Chats video today, I thought I’d share with you some of the resources that I’ve found useful in giving me an insight into Tudor life and the Tudor mindset, and I know these would be useful to novelists, re-enactors and anyone just wanting to try and understand Tudor people and how they lived.
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Brrrrr! I know I live in “sunny Spain”, but it’s got rather chilly here! What’s the weather like with you? I’m definitely more of a summer girl!
This cold snap inspired this week’s Claire Chats and I hope you enjoy it.
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This month, we are very lucky to have historian and author Toni Mount as our expert speaker. Toni is the author of the Sebastian Foxley medieval mystery series of novels, as well as non-fiction works like “Everyday Life in Medieval London” and “Medieval Medicine”. She has also written history courses for MedievalCourses.com.
Toni’s specialism is looking into how the ordinary, everyday people lived their lives, and her research gives us a real insight into how hard it must have been five-hundred years ago. Toni shows us how it would have been especially difficult to be a Tudor woman.
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One of my all-time favourite history programmes is the 12-part series “Tales from the Green Valley” which was aired back in 2004. It was the fore-runner of the popular Victorian Farm/Edwardian Farm/Tudor Monastery Farm series and featured Ruth Goodman, Alex Langlands, Peter Ginn and other historians and archaeologists living as rural people would have done in the early Stuart period. It really is a wonderful series…
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Merry Christmas! Here’s the December Tudor Life Magazine, an 80-page magazine packed with facts, fun and festivity. There’s a full 20-page feature on Tudor portraits, and there’s even a “Cut out Elizabeth I” fun activity! Enjoy this month’s magazine.
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Health is the theme of this month’s Tudor Life magazine. It’s jam packed with articles on health and disease, plus a fun quiz where you can find out what might have killed you in the Tudor era!
This 72-page magazine will keep any Tudor history lover busy – enjoy!
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In today’s Claire Chats video I take you on a tour through the “Tudor life” section of my bookcase, picking out the books I find useful on everyday life during the period.
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This quiz should be nice and easy if you listened to my recent Claire Chats video on cleaning and doing the washing in Tudor times. Good luck!
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In today’s Claire Chats video I look at how the Tudors kept their homes clean and how they did their laundry.
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Following on from last week’s video on haircare in medieval and Tudor times, today I’m talking about how Tudor people kept their faces and bodies clean.
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Here’s the cover for the forthcoming Tudor Life magazine. The theme for this magazine is loosely “Vulnerability” and covers an interesting range of topics as always. Thanks to all the contributors for this magazine.
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