The Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

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.

Series details

• Title: The Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England
• Format: Documentary
• Language: English
• Genres: History
• Premiere date: 2013-05-31
• Final broadcast date listed: 2013-06-14
• Status in TVmaze: Ended
• Network listed by TVmaze: BBC Two
• Network country: United Kingdom
• Typical episode runtime: 60 minutes
• TVMaze ID: 21221
• TVDB ID: 270362

Cast and credited roles

• Ian Mortimer — Host

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1: premiered 2013-05-31; final listed air date 2013-06-14; episode order: 3.

Source and licence

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