The Time Traveller's Guide To Elizabethan England

Although most people have images of courtiers with fine clothes in lavish palaces, the reality was that most people during Queen Elizabeth's I's reign were poor. In this fascinating history documentary, Dr. Ian Mortimer looks at those struggling during the Golden Age of English history. What is it like to live in a dark, dank, smoke-filled hovel where peasants could earn only fourpence a day?

With the Elizabethan elite, ruff size mattered, and the wrong word could get you killed.

How education, urbanization and science helped a burgeoning Elizabethan middle class.