And, there were, kind of, much more unassuming schools where, you know, sometimes girls might be educated.

Tudor England: A history by Lucy Wooding | Book review - TLS Tudor England: A history by Lucy Wooding | Book review - TLS

Throughout it provides a sense of what it would have felt like to live through the many tumultuous changes of the period; and its combination of broad sweep and with vivid stories and snapshots will reward scholars, students and general readers alike. We had technical help from Tiffany Cassidy in Oxford and from VoiceTrax West in Studio City, California. Fresh water was not widely available, particularly in an urban setting, and the Tudors consumed enormous quantities of beer.

Manual workers, sailors and soldiers were assumed to need 4 quarts (over 4 litres) of beer for their daily allowance. It was then that I first realized how the study of religion could both pose a radical challenge to accepted views of a particular period, and also offer a way into understanding convictions, loyalties and identities which might otherwise prove elusive. In this comprehensive new history, Lucy Wooding lets their voices speak, exploring not just how monarchs ruled but also how men and women thought, wrote, lived, and died. Important fresh perspectives” is of course fodder for horror, but Wooding’s book is generously magnificent, sprawling over all aspects of the era, from sex to theater seating, from taxes to trout fishing, and virtually never descending into the muck of 21st-century grievance micro-studies.

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In cities, towns, and villages, families and communities lived their lives through times of great upheaval. Because we’ve talked a lot on this program about how many upper-class women at the time were extremely well-educated.J ust before Whitsunday in the summer of 1549, a fight broke out in the playground of a school in Bodmin.