Inside the Tudor Home

Not Just the Tudors

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🗓️ 22 October 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

We are all familiar with great Tudor palaces and country houses but what were the homes of ordinary people like during that time? How were they built, and how did designs change with the use of new materials and construction methods? What did people do in their various rooms? How did they cook, clean and sleep? And, very importantly, did they keep pets?

In this edition of Not Just the Tudors, Professor Suzannah Lipscomb finds out more from Bethan Watts, author of Inside the Tudor Home: Daily Life in the Sixteenth Century.

This episode was produced by Rob Weinberg.

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0:15.9	I suspect each one of you listening today has visited a Tudor house at some point in your life and I imagine it's one of the large well-known palaces or houses that were lived in by royalty on nobles but do you ever visit these
0:22.1	places and think what was the house of an ordinary person in
0:26.0	Judah England like? If so, today's podcast is for you.
0:32.0	You'll learn how people's homes were built and how designs changed.
0:36.2	You'll learn about the rooms people lived in, how they cooked, cleaned and slept.
0:41.1	And for animal lovers like me, we'll also hear something about people's pets.
0:45.4	Our guide today is Bethan Watts author of Inside the Tudor home,
0:50.8	daily life in the 16th century.
0:53.0	Bethan is a social historian of many year one early modern history,
0:57.0	completing her PhD at the University of Wales Trinity St David.
1:02.0	Inside the Tudor home is her first book.
1:05.0	Beth and welcome to not just the Tudors.
1:10.0	Hi, thank you for having me. Beth and welcome to not just the Tudors.
1:13.4	Hi, thank you for having me.
1:15.0	It's a great pleasure.
1:16.7	So we're going to be talking about Holmes in the Tudor period and particularly thinking about the lives of ordinary people in those homes.
1:26.0	But I thought we could start somewhere that might seem a little strange, which is you talk about the role of roads in the development of houses and homes and
1:37.0	explain that by 1535 parishes had to maintain roads which led to better communications. Can you tie this up for us and
1:45.8	explain how this shaped the Tudor home?
1:48.8	Yes, so when we think about the Tudor home we think about the environments that shaped it and the world around it.
1:55.6	Perhaps even more so than in society today, transport and transport links were so much more important perhaps to the Tudors than they are today
2:07.1	in the sense that they were not so established as in today's society So we tend to take for granted a lot of things like transport links and roads.
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