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The Tudor era encompasses some of the greatest changes in our history. But while we know about the historical dramas of the times - most notably in the court of Henry VIII - what was life really like for a commoner like you or me? This is a time traveller's guide to daily life in Tudor England.

TRAVEL BACK IN TIME WITH THE BBC'S RUTH GOODMANWe know what life was like for Victoria and Albert. But what was it like for a commoner - like you or me?How did it feel to cook with coal and wash with tea leaves? Drink beer for breakfast and clean your teeth with cuttlefish? Catch the omnibus to work and do the laundry in your corset?How to be a Victorian by Ruth Goodman is a radical new approach to history; a journey back in time more personal than anything before. Moving through the rhythm of the day, this astonishing guide illuminates the overlapping worlds of health, sex, fashion, food, school, work and play. Surviving everyday life came down to the gritty details, the small necessities and tricks of living and Ruth will show you how.If you liked A Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England or 1000 Years of Annoying the French, you will love this book.*****'Goodman skilfully creates a portrait of daily Victorian life with accessible, compelling, and deeply sensory prose' Erin Entrada Kelly'We're lucky to have such a knowledgeable cicerone as Ruth Goodman . . . Revelatory' Alexandra Kimball'Goodman's research is impeccable . . . taking the reader through an average day and presenting the oddities of life without condescension' Patricia Hagen

"The queen of living history" (Lucy Worsley) dazzles anglophiles and history lovers alike with this immersive account of how English women sparked a worldwide revolution--from their own kitchens. Wielding the same wit and passion as seen in How to Be a Victorian, Ruth Goodman shows that the hot coal stove provided so much more than morning tea. As Goodman traces the amazing shift from wood to coal in mid-sixteenth century England, a pattern of innovation emerges as the women stoking these fires also stoked new global industries: from better soap to clean smudges to new ingredients for cooking. Laced with irresistibly charming anecdotes of Goodman's own experience managing a coal-fired household, The Domestic Revolution shines a hot light on the power of domestic necessity.

Lauded by critics, How to Be a Victorian is an enchanting manual for the insatiably curious, the "the cheapest time-travel machine you'll find" (NPR). Readers have fallen in love with Ruth Goodman, an historian who believes in getting her hands dirty. Drawing on her own firsthand adventures living in re-created Victorian conditions, Goodman serves as our bustling guide to nineteenth-century life. Proceeding from daybreak to bedtime, this charming, illustrative work "imagines the Victorians as intrepid survivors" (New Republic) of the most perennially fascinating era of British history. From lacing into a corset after a round of calisthenics to slipping opium to the little ones, Goodman's account of Victorian life "makes you feel as if you could pass as a native" (The New Yorker).

On the heels of her triumphant How to Be a Victorian, Ruth Goodman travels even further back in English history to the era closest to her heart, the dramatic period from the crowning of Henry VII to the death of Elizabeth I. A celebrated master of British social and domestic history, Ruth Goodman draws on her own adventures living in re-created Tudor conditions to serve as our intrepid guide to sixteenth-century living. Proceeding from daybreak to bedtime, this "immersive, engrossing" (Slate) work pays tribute to the lives of those who labored through the era. From using soot from candle wax as toothpaste to malting grain for homemade ale, from the gruesome sport of bear-baiting to cuckolding and cross-dressing--the madcap habits and revealing intimacies of life in the time of Shakespeare are vividly rendered for the insatiably curious.

Every age and social strata has its bad eggs, rule-breakers, and nose-thumbers. As acclaimed popular historian and author of How to Be a Victorian Ruth Goodman shows in her madcap chronicle, Elizabethan England was particularly rank with troublemakers, from snooty needlers who took aim with a cutting "thee," to lowbrow drunkards with revolting table manners. Goodman draws on advice manuals, court cases, and sermons to offer this colorfully crude portrait of offenses most foul. Mischievous readers will delight in learning how to time your impressions for the biggest laugh, why quoting Shakespeare was poor form, and why curses hurled at women were almost always about sex (and why we shouldn't be surprised). Bringing her signature "exhilarating and contagious" enthusiasm (Boston Globe), this is a celebration of one of history's naughtiest periods, when derision was an art form.

With this "impeccable" (BBC History) chronicle, acclaimed popular historian Ruth Goodman reveals a Renaissance Britain particularly rank with troublemakers. From snooty needlers who took aim with a cutting "thee," to lowbrow drunkards with revolting table manners, Goodman's "gleeful and illuminating" (Booklist, starred review) portrait of offenses most foul draws upon advice manuals, court cases, and sermons. Wicked readers will delight in learning why quoting Shakespeare was poor form, and why curses hurled at women were almost always about sex (no surprise there). "Accessible, fun, and historically accurate" (Publishers Weekly, starred review), How to Behave Badly is a celebration of one of history's naughtiest periods, when derision was an art form. "Oh, how I wish Ruth Goodman could be my tutor. But settling in for one of her history lessons is better than second best." - Alicia Becker, New York Times Book Review

No single invention epitomizes the Victorian era more than the black cast-iron range. Aware that the twenty-first-century has reduced it to a quaint relic, Ruth Goodman was determined to prove that the hot coal stove provided so much more than morning tea: it might even have kick-started the Industrial Revolution. Wielding the wit and passion seen in How to Be a Victorian, Goodman traces the tectonic shift from wood to coal in the mid-sixteenth century--from sooty trials and errors during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I to the totally smog-clouded reign of Queen Victoria. A pattern of innovation emerges as the women stoking these fires also stoked new global industries: from better soap to clean smudges to new ingredients for cooking. Laced with uproarious anecdotes of Goodman's own experience managing a coal-fired household, this fascinating book shines a hot light on the power of domestic necessity.

‘Ruth is the queen of living history – long may she reign.’Lucy WorsleyA large black cast iron range glowing hot, the kettle steaming on top, provider of everything from bath water and clean socks to morning tea: it’s a nostalgic icon of a Victorian way of life. But it is far more than that. In this book, social historian and TV presenter Ruth Goodman tells the story of how the development of the coal-fired domestic range fundamentally changed not just our domestic comforts, but our world. The revolution began as far back as the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, when London began the switch from wood to coal as its domestic fuel – a full 200 years before any other city. It would be this domestic demand for more coal that would lead to the expansion of mining, engineering, construction and industry: the Domestic Revolution kick-started, pushed and fuelled the Industrial Revolution.There were other radical shifts. Coal cooking was to change not just how we cooked but what we cooked (causing major swings in diet), how we washed (first our laundry and then our bodies) and how we decorated (spurring the wallpaper industry). It also defined the nature of women’s and men’s working lives, pushing women more firmly into the domestic sphere. It transformed our landscape and environment (by the time of Elizabeth’s death in 1603, London’s air was as polluted as that of modern Beijing). Even tea drinking can be brought back to coal in the home, with all its ramifications for the shape of the empire and modern world economics.Taken together, these shifts in our day-to-day practices started something big, something unprecedented, something that was exported across the globe and helped create the world we live in today.

From royalty to peasantry, every age has its bad eggs, those who break all the rules and rub everyone up the wrong way. But their niggling, anti-social and irritating ways not only tell us about what upset people, but also what mattered to them, how their society functioned and what kind of world they lived in. In this brilliantly nitty-gritty exploration of real life in the Tudor and Stuart age, you will discover:– how to choose the perfect insult, whether it be draggletail, varlet, flap, saucy fellow strumpet, ninny-hammer or stinkard– why quoting Shakespeare was very poor form – why flashing the inside of your hat could repulse someone– the best way to mock accents, preachers, soldiers and pretty much everything else besides Ruth Goodman draws upon advice books and manuals, court cases and sermons, drama and imagery to outline bad behaviour from the gauche to the galling, the subtle to the outrageous. It is a celebration of drunkards, scolds, harridans and cross dressers in a time when calling a man a fool could get someone killed, and cursing wasn’t just rude, it worked!‘Ruth is the queen of living history – long may she reign!’ Lucy Worsley

V kazhdoj epokhe sredi pravitelej i prostykh ljudej vsegda popadalis provokatory i podletsy - te, kto narushal pravila i pokazyval ljudjam durnoj primer. I, po mneniju avtora, imenno ikh povedenie daet kljuch k ponimaniju togo, kak funktsioniruet nashe obschestvo. Eta kniga - blestjaschee i uvlekatelnoe issledovanie mira epokhi Tjudorov i Stjuartov, v kotorom vy najdete otvety na samye neozhidannye voprosy: Kak podobrat idealnoe oskorblenie, chtoby sozdat problemy sebe i okruzhajuschim?Pochemu tsitirovanie Shekspira mozhet okazatsja ne tolko, neumestnym, no i sovershenno nepriemlemym?Kak ottolknut ot sebja cheloveka, prosto pokazav emu iznanku svoej shljapy?Kakie sposoby izdevatelstv nad propovednikom, soldatom ili prosto sosedom okazhutsja samymi luchshimi?Okunites v derzkij mir Britanii epokhi Vozrozhdenija!Perevodchik: Zakharov A. V.Redaktor: Maksimenko E.

Kak zhili i rabotali, chto eli, chem lechilis, na chem ezdili, vo chto odevalis i kak razvlekalis obychnye anglichane ushedshikh epokh? Kakovo bylo gotovit na ugle, pit pivo na zavtrak, chistit zuby tolchenoj kostju karakatitsy, ezdit na rabotu v konnom omnibuse i truditsja po domu v korsete? Kniga avtoritetnogo britanskogo istorika, osnovannaja na solidnom dokumentalnom materiale (dnevniki, pisma, avtobiografii, periodicheskie izdanija i knigi), rasskazyvaet o mnogikh aspektakh tipichnogo rasporjadka dnja v XIX veke, vkljuchaja pitanie, zabotu o zdorove, intimnuju blizost, modu, trud i razvlechenija. Snabzhennaja rjadom cherno-belykh i tsvetnykh illjustratsij kniga predstavljaet soboj jarkuju kollektsiju udivitelnykh obychaev, privychek i podrobnostej chastnoj zhizni anglichan v period pravlenija korolevy Viktorii. "Ja khochu izuchit istoriju chastnogo, lichnogo, materialnogo, kotoraja vospevaet obydennost i pozvoljaet vossozdat zhizn prostykh ljudej, vzroslykh i detej, cherez soprikosnovenie s ikh bytom. Ja namerevajus ponjat, kak myslili nashi predki, uznat ob ikh nadezhdakh, strakhakh i domyslakh. Ja rassmotrju vse storony bytovykh budnej viktoriantsev i priglashaju vas tuda, gde sama brodila v poiskakh sledov toj epokhi. V popytkakh postich proshloe ja s samogo nachala udeljala mnogo vnimanija eksperimentalnomu aspektu. Mne nravitsja pogruzhatsja v izuchenie tekh veschej, kotorye ljudi sozdavali i ispolzovali v proshlom, i na sobstvennom opyte uznavat, kak eto rabotalo" (Rut Gudman) Perevodchik: Stepanova V.

Kak zhili i rabotali, chto eli, chem lechilis, na chem ezdili, chto nosili i kak razvlekalis obychnye anglichane mnogo let nazad? Avtoritetnyj britanskij istorik otpravljaetsja v puteshestvie po dramaticheskoj epokhe, predstavlennoj periodom ot koronatsii Genrikha VII do smerti Elizavety I. Opirajas kak na solidnye dokumentalnye istochniki, tak i na sobstvennyj opyt rekonstruktsii istoricheskikh uslovij, avtor znakomit s mnogochislennymi aspektami povsednevnoj zhizni v XVI veke - ot gigienicheskikh protsedur do osobennostej pitanija, ot zanjatij, svjazannykh s tjazhelym fizicheskim trudom, do problem obrazovanija i vospitanija i mnogikh drugikh. Snabzhennaja rjadom cherno-belykh i tsvetnykh illjustratsij kniga predstavljaet soboj jarkuju kollektsiju udivitelnykh obychaev, privychek i detalej chastnoj zhizni anglichan v period pravlenija Tjudorov. "Konechno, mne interesny i drugie istoricheskie periody, no po-nastojaschemu moe serdtse prinadlezhit seredine pravlenija Elizavety I. S odnoj storony, menja voskhischaet "inakovost" myshlenija epokhi Tjudorov, s drugoj - zanimajut ego otgoloski, pronikshie v sovremennuju zhizn... Eto slozhnoe vremja, oznamenovannoe neskolkimi znachitelnymi povorotami v britanskoj istorii. Moja kniga stala itogom stremlenija ponjat byt, mysli i zaboty sovremennikov etoj epokhi". (

On the heels of her triumphant How to Be a Victorian, Ruth Goodman travels even further back in English history to the era closest to her heart, the dramatic period from the crowning of Henry VII to the death of Elizabeth I. Drawing on her own adventures living in re-created Tudor conditions, Goodman serves as our intrepid guide to sixteenth-century living. Proceeding from daybreak to bedtime, this charming, illustrative work celebrates the ordinary lives of those who labored through the era. From sounding the "hue and cry" to alert a village to danger to malting grain for homemade ale, from the gruesome sport of bear-baiting to cuckolding and cross-dressing--the madcap habits and revealing intimacies of life in the time of Shakespeare are vividly rendered for the insatiably curious.