Cleaning Up After Naughty Knaves
Naughty Knaves
Guest: Ruth Goodman, historian and author, "How to Behave Badly in Elizabethan England: A Guide for Knaves, Fools, Harlots, Cuckolds, Drunkards, Liars, Thieves, and Braggarts" and "The Domestic Revolution: How the Introduction of Coal into Victorian Homes Changed Everything"
Ruth Goodman, gets down in the dirt with historic reenactments of ordinary farm life in Victorian and Tudor times. She's also written the book on bad (and good!) behavior in Renaissance times.
The Middle Ages: Cleaner Than We Thought
Guest: Katherine Harvey, Medieval Historian, Birkbeck, University of London
Even without indoor plumbing, people in the Middle Ages were aware of—and attentive to—cleanliness much more than we've given them credit for.