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201360 minPGdocumentary

3.2/ 10(2 ratings)• TMDB

Tudor Monastery Farm

201360 minPGdocumentary

3.2/ 10(2 ratings)• TMDB

Historian Ruth Goodman and archaeologists Peter Ginn and Tom Pinfold become tenant farmers on monastery land in the early Tudor period.

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Historian Ruth Goodman and archaeologists Peter Ginn and Tom Pinfold become tenant farmers on monastery land in the early Tudor period.

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Historian Ruth Goodman and archaeologists Peter Ginn and Tom Pinfold turn the clock back 500 years to the early Tudor period to become tenant farmers on monastery land.

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