Christmas | Tudor Monastery Farm

Duration: 59'09''

Synopsis

Historian Ruth Goodman and archaeologists Tom Pinfold and Peter Ginn recreate how the farms of Tudor England celebrated the 12 days of Christmas with banquets and carol singing.

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