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Want to live like a Tudor? Historian Ruth Goodman did, and here are five crucial lessons she learned

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“Fridges are a bit overrated.”

That’s one of the conclusions that Ruth Goodman came to after spending six months living the life of an ordinary Tudor. Living and working in a farmstead meticulously constructed to be Tudor-authentic, she immersed herself in the granular details of 16th-century Britain, eating Tudor food,…

Married three times by the age of 15: Margaret Beaufort, the woman who birthed the Tudor Dynasty

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In March 1457, a short, slight widow left Pembroke Castle to embark on a 100-mile journey across territories stalked by civil war and pestilence. Her husband had died only four months earlier, carried off by plague contracted during imprisonment at another Welsh castle during the spurts of Yorkist resistance that…

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