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Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England

Ian Mortimer

Michael Wadding

David Starkey

Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England: Episode 2: The Rich

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The Rich

Episode 2

Episode 2: The Rich

BBC Two - Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England, The Rich

Dr Mortimer reveals how, in this age, those who have the most also have the most to lose.

Dr Ian Mortimer navigates his way through the treacherous world of the Elizabethan upper classes, revealing how those who have the most also have the most to lose.

Dr Ian Mortimer introduces you to the world of the Elizabethan rich and privileged.  

Money alone is not enough to allow you to blend in with the royal court. There is much to learn about how the wealthy dress, greet and behave. The high classes operate with their own secret codes of manners, dress, hygiene and dancing. Even something as simple as the size of your ruff may be enough to betray an out-of-date outfit and have you excluded from the upper levels of society. This is quite literally a cut-throat world; spies circle the great and good and one false word from you or your servants could cost you everything. Then there is the Queen herself, including the horrifying cost of hosting a royal progress.

These are dangerous days and those who have the most also have the most to lose.

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Best-selling author Ian Mortimer transports viewers back to Elizabethan England.

Ian Mortimer transports viewers back to Elizabethan England and reveals, in vivid detail, a living, breathing Tudor world. Viewers learn how ordinary Tudor housewives turned plants into medicine, how the middle classes kept themselves clean using linen cloths, how the poor made pottage, how cooks of the rich devised recipes for new ingredients, and how Tudors learned to read and write.

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