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Dr Suzannah Lipscomb takes us back to Tudor times, when the newly emergent middle classes had money for luxuries and early consumer goods, many of which contained hidden dangers. Uploaded 27-02-19 It's like Netflix for history... Sign up to History Hit to start watching now https://bit.ly/45CPh5u This channel is part of the Little Dot Studios Network. Any queries please contact: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit...
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Nowadays, we think of the Tudor home as an icon of Britishness, timber-framed, maybe thatched a cottage. Sounds wonderful. But these quaint, pretty relics of the past belie the revolution in technology that changed them and us.
This is the great age of change. It's one of the reasons we all love the Tudor period because it's the age of discovery, and there's a sense that anything is possible. One place this change was most evident was in the home.
Domestic life was transformed. But as with anything new, there were risks. From the new technology that warmed our rooms... Whoa!
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