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# How To Be a Tudor: A Dawn-to-Dusk Guide to Tudor Life

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## Customer Reviews

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    Buy hardcover, not paperback
  

*by C***A on Reviewed in the United States on June 25, 2016*

Note about quality:  you get much better quality with the hardcover version, especially with pictures.  I also bought the paperback version and the pictures were printed on cheap paper, black and white only, and poor quality.  The hardcover has the pictures on special coated paper, color photos, and good quality printing.  I'm extremely pleased with my hardcover copy.As for the content, this is Ruth Goodman's typical work:  very well researched, extremely informative, and interesting to read.  She never guesses:  if she isn't sure, she actually tries the activity or item in question, which is something other authors don't do.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    How the Tudors really lived in detail...by someone who has actually done it.
  

*by A***E on Reviewed in the United States on February 4, 2016*

Ruth Goodman is the go-to domestic historian for the BBC. She has consulted and starred in many BBC series documenting life in various ages. The documentaries are nearly impossible to find in the United States (only 

  
Edwardian Farms









  
  
    
   is available via Amazon Streaming). In the United States, Ruth Goodman is better known as an author. This latest book, "How to Be a Tudor" is similar to her previous books (

  
Victorian Pharmacy: Rediscovering Home Remedies and Recipes









  
  
    
  ,

  
Wartime Farm









  
  
    
  ,

  
Tudor Monastery Farm: Life in rural England 500 years ago









  
  
    
   and 

  
How to Be a Victorian: A Dawn-to-Dusk Guide to Victorian Life









  
  
    
  ). Since Ruth has literally lived exactly how people in the age would have lived (for as much as a year via her BBC series) she does not just quote from the history books. She goes through and explains in detail exactly HOW things were done in the domestic world. The book starts with a normal person waking up. She covers the typical house, the types of bedding and how they were made and why they had curtains and how floor rushes worked (and smelled). The book goes through an entire day in minute detail. There are chapters on washing, dressing, breakfast, what each sex did during the day, etc and finally ends with bedtime. Ruth Goodman's books fill in the gaps that almost no other historian has or even could. One example is in the chapter on dressing. She covers the Elizabethan ruffs by discussing the fabric, how much is required and how it was sewn. She moves onto how they were starched and describes making the actual starch, which vegetables were used and finally how to iron, color (temporary dye by coloring the starch) and even how to make them glossy (by rubbing the linen with a glass smoothing stone). It is really eye opening to see the amount of work required daily for a regular joe, not a wealthy noble, or a king or queen. The smells (not always where you think), the hours and the sheer strength required shows just how far we have come. I am glad to see this book has finally made it to the United States and have already preordered the audiobook version from Audible!If this subject interests you, the documentaries from the BBC will work on any cheap, portable international DVD player Amazon sells (it must play any region or region 2 and pal format). You will not be disappointed with any of them: 

  
Tales from the Green Valley: Complete Series [Region 2









  
  
    
  ], 

  
Tudor Monastery Farm [DVD









  
  
    
  ], a Tudor Christmas Feast, 

  
The Complete Victorian Farm and Victorian Christmas Farm [DVD









  
  
    
  ], 

  
Edwardian Farm









  
  
    
   (also available now on Amazon Video 

  
Edwardian Farm









  
  
    
  ), 

  
The Victorian Pharmacy [Region 2] [UK Import









  
  
    
   and 

  
The Complete Wartime Farm [DVD









  
  
    
  ].

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Entertaining yet educational
  

*by L***D on Reviewed in the United States on August 22, 2017*

If you enjoy learning where terms like "spinster" and "upper crust" come from, this book is for you. If you want to know which is more important--taking a shower or changing your underwear--this book is for you. If you want to learn how to build a clay oven and how to get the best use of it, this book is for you. Even if you just want to be amused at what people used to believe, this book is for you. Get it now.

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