How our ancestors – ordinary men, women and children – solved the nitty gritty problems of everyday life made the world what it is today”. Our day to day routines have a huge cumulative effect on the environment our shopping habits can sway the world’s patterns of trade and how we organise and run our family life sets the political tone of nations.Īs Ruth says “We matter. Also how seemingly little things change the world. Her particular interest is the domestic how we lived our daily lives and why we did the things we did. As a social historian she works with a whole range of people, institutions and museums such as The Weald and Downland, The Globe Theatre, Shakespeare’s Birthplace Trust, the National Trust and the heritage and drama departments of several universities. Her most recent books are “How to Behave Badly in Renaissance Britain” was published in 2018 by Michael O’Mara and “The Domestic Revolution – How the introduction of Coal into our homes changed Everything” was published in 2020.Īs well as her television work, Ruth offers advisory services, lectures and holds practical workshops around the country. Ruth is currently Presenter on Channel 5’s “On the Farm”.Īs well as her tv tie-in books, she has published “How to be a Victorian” and “How to be a Tudor” (Pub: Penguin Viking) both critically and commercially successful in the UK and abroad including the US and China. She was the Judge on BBC 1’s ’24 Hours in the Past’ and is the historical expert on BBC 2’s “Inside the Factory: How our Favourite Foods are Made (now in its 8th series). In 2013 she presented Tudor Monastery Farm and earlier in the year ‘The Wonder of Dogs’ (BBC 2). These were followed by The Wartime Farm which regularly attracted up to 3 million viewers per week and was also accompanied by a successful book of the same title. 1 in The Sunday Times’s best seller list.

The book of the series, also called “The Victorian Farm” went to No. “The Victorian Farm” was one of BBC Two’s biggest hits in 2009 and was nominated for a Royal Television Society Award. She has presented (and consulted on) several highly successful television series including “The Edwardian Farm”, “The Victorian Farm”, “Victorian Farm Christmas” “Tales from the Green Valley” and “The Victorian Pharmacy” (all for primetime BBC Two) as well as presenting a variety of films for The One Show and Coast. Ruth Goodman is a social and domestic historian working with museums, theatre, television and educational establishments. Take 3 Management are the Agents for Ruth Goodman.

How to be a tudor by ruth goodman