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Freddy and Holly have travelled back through time to experience the life of poor farm labourers. It’s 1587 and Holly’s family are making their way to London in search of work. They lodge with Freddy’s family but bring sickness with them. As the children struggle to master the many skills involved in running a Tudor household, Freddy’s father becomes ill with ‘the sweats’. He is bled by an apothecary. The children seek advice from a herbalist to help Holly’s family, but despite their best efforts one of them dies.
Phil, Josh and Michaela join the household of a yeoman farmer. Phil, the oldest son, learns the skills he will need to run the farm while his younger brother, Josh, will go to the grammar school to receive an education. Michaela, a servant’s daughter, is being trained by her elders in household tasks.
Each of the children finds their lot hard. Phil, struggling with the backbreaking work of picking stones and tending the stock, envies his brother who goes to school. But Josh finds learning hard and cannot master his work, despite the ever-present threat of a flogging. Michaela sees life as a servant mapped out before her and recognises that she will have little say in her future.
Looks at the lifestyle of a middle-class family in Tudor times. Children have an opportunity to compare the lives of rich and poor and look at differences in diet, work and entertainment.
It is 1587. In Spain, Philip II is preparing to launch his great armada. In Sussex, modern schoolchildren Nell and Greg have joined the household of the local bailiff. Nell is his daughter and Greg is the son of the bailiff’s servants. There is plenty for them to do as the household prepares a feast to celebrate the betrothal of the bailiff’s oldest son. But as the day passes by Greg becomes increasingly conscious of the contrast between his life as a servant and that of Nell, the bailiff’s daughter.
