Ruth Goodman Explained

Ruth Goodman
Birth Date:5 October 1963
Occupation:BBC presenter, historian
Notable Works:BBC documentaries, advisor to the Victoria & Albert Museum

Ruth Goodman (born 5 October 1963[1] [2]) is a British freelance historian of the early modern period, specialising in offering advice to museums and heritage attractions.

She is a specialist in British social history and after presenting the 2005 television series Tales from the Green Valley,[3] went on to participate in several BBC historic farm series. She occasionally presents features for The One Show, and she co-presented Secrets of the Castle in 2014, and 24 Hours in the Past (2015).

Early life

She was born in Cardiff and went to Westbury primary[4] school[5] [6] and Fearnhill School[7] in Letchworth. "School...was rather pedestrian...I became a very poor student, simply going through the motions, and my academic record at both school and university indeed lacks lustre."[8]

Career

Goodman "couldn't get a job after university", so she trained for a job as railway ticket clerk for British Rail, working at Chester station for a short time.[9]

She has been a consultant to the Victoria & Albert Museum and to the film Shakespeare in Love.[10] She is a member of the Tudor Group, a re-enactment organisation for the Tudor period.[11] [12] Since participating in Tales of the Green Valley in 2005, she has been a presenter on the BBC television educational documentary series Victorian Farm, Victorian Pharmacy, Edwardian Farm, Tudor Monastery Farm,[13] Wartime Farm,[14] Wartime Farm Christmas, Secrets of the Castle, and Full Steam Ahead.[15] She participated in the 2011 series of Celebrity Masterchef. Since 2015, she has presented segments within the BBC television series Inside the Factory.[16]

In 2007, the Weald and Downland Living Museum Historic Clothing Project was founded by Hannah Tiplady, Head of Interpretation, consulted by Goodman and historical costumier Barbara Painter.[17]

In 2022, Goodman was featured in A Farm Through Time with brothers Rob and Dave Nicholson,[18] a three-part series shown on Channel 5 that explores how farming practices have changed over the years.[19] Prior to A Farm Through Time she had appeared with the brothers on one of their nightly ...on the Farm programmes at Cannon Hall Farm, discussing alcoholic brews from the past.

Personal life

She lives in Buckinghamshire[20] [21] and is married to Tudor re-enactor and musician Mark Goodman, who participated[22] in one episode of Tudor Monastery Farm. Their daughter Eve works on historic clothing and fashions and has appeared on television, sometimes alongside her mother.[23]

Goodman was awarded an honorary degree in 2012 by Bishop Grosseteste University College, Lincoln, for her contribution to history education.[24]

As a result of her social history research, she has stopped using detergents in her washing machine, never eats factory farmed food and sometimes cooks on an open wood fire. For a period of three months she followed a Tudor body cleansing regime, and no-one complained or noticed a smell.[25]

Publications

External links

Notes and References

  1. News: Tough but tranquil: life on the BBC's Edwardian farm . London . The Daily Telegraph . Ceri . Radford . 5 November 2010 . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20170410053232/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/8110967/Tough-but-tranquil-life-on-the-BBCs-Edwardian-farm.html . 10 April 2017 . dmy-all .
  2. https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/officers/7LEScKqMyXfbVzWfZJuDRrdJ8W0/appointments Companies House
  3. News: Lessons from our ancestors about the countryside. Lane. Megan. 19 August 2005. BBC News Magazine. 4 September 2010. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20081123103618/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4163982.stm. 23 November 2008. dmy-all.
  4. News: Gill . Nick . Houses to be built on former Letchworth school site . 26 August 2022 . . Archant Community Media . 18 January 2011 . en-UK.
  5. News: Gill . Nick . A fortnight of Letchworth Festival fun . . 26 August 2022 . en-UK . 10 June 2011.
  6. Web site: An Evening with Ruth Goodman . Letchworth Festival . broadwayfilmgroup.org . 26 August 2022 . 12 June 2011.
  7. Web site: McDermott . Olly . History and Alumni . Fearnhill School . 26 August 2022.
  8. News: Martin-Brown . Becca . Lessons from the past . 26 August 2022 . . 26 November 2020 . en.
  9. Web site: Webb . Claire . Full Steam Ahead's Ruth Goodman on her days as a stationmaster . . 26 August 2022 . en . 11 August 2016.
  10. News: The good old days of back-breaking labour . Ford . Matt . 4 October 2008 . . 4 September 2010 . London . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20101222010940/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/3352834/The-good-old-days-of-back-breaking-labour.html . 22 December 2010 .
  11. News: Live your life in Tudor times. 2 May 2009. Derby Telegraph. 4 September 2010. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20090503215045/http://www.thisisderbyshire.co.uk/entertainment/Live-life-Tudor-times/article-957478-detail/article.html. 3 May 2009. dmy-all.
  12. News: Q & A: Tudor Tour. Siano. Joseph. 14 June 1998. New York Times. 4 September 2010.
  13. Web site: Ruth Goodman . Tudor Monastery Farm, Series 1 . BBC Two . 26 August 2022.
  14. News: Victorian Christmas. BBC. 4 September 2010. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20101213023436/http://www.bbc.co.uk/victorianchristmas/about.shtml. 13 December 2010. dmy-all.
  15. Web site: BBC Two - Full Steam Ahead . 2023-04-12 . BBC . en-GB.
  16. Web site: Inside the factory. Series 3, episode 1, Tea bags . . . 26 August 2022 . en.
  17. Web site: Historic Clothing . . 26 August 2022.
  18. News: A Farm Through Time, review: The Ant and Dec of agriculture plough straight into parody . The Telegraph . 18 August 2022 . Swain . Marianka .
  19. Web site: New TV Show: A Farm Through Time. cannonhallfarm.co.uk. 12 August 2022 . 16 August 2022.
  20. News: Austin . Sue . Historian, Ruth calls in to sample The Fat Rabbit's pancakes . 26 August 2022 . . en.
  21. Web site: 2011 . Closing Presentation: Ruth Goodman . 26 August 2022 . Ontario Museum Association.
  22. Web site: Tudor Monastery Farm, Series 1, Episode 1 . BBC Two . BBC . 26 August 2022.
  23. Web site: Eve Goodman . Take Three Management . 26 August 2022.
  24. Web site: 3 July 2012. TV star to join BG graduation. 2021-01-24. Bishop Grosseteste University College. en-gb.
  25. Web site: McGrath . Carol . Did Tudors Smell Whiffy? . Adventures of a Tudor Nerd . 26 August 2022 . en . 26 February 2022.

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