Life in Tudor England: Timber Houses, Ale, Hampton Court and the Globe | History for Sleep

Fall asleep in Tudor England. Tonight we wander slowly through daily life in England between 1485 and 1603, the age of Henry VIII and Elizabeth I: dawn in a village and its parish church, ploughing, sowing and the harvest in the open fields, timber-framed houses of wattle and daub, pottage, bread and ale, market day and the great fairs, London Bridge and the River Thames, doublets, ruffs and the sumptuary laws, hornbooks and the grammar school, apprentices and the London guilds, physicians, herbs and the mysterious sweating sickness, the Reformation in the parish, the royal court at Hampton Court, Queen Elizabeth on summer progress, an afternoon at the Globe, Christmas revels and May Day, and finally candles, the night watch and sleep. Calm, slow narration for sleep, insomnia, relaxing, or studying. After the story ends, about 40 minutes of soft ambient sound continue, so nothing wakes you. Chapters 0:00 Welcome 0:51 Dawn in a Tudor Village 7:05 Ploughing, Sowing and the Harvest 13:09 Timber Frames, Wattle and Daub 19:28 Pottage, Bread and Ale 25:46 Market Day and the Great Fairs 31:56 London Bridge and the River Thames 38:19 Doublets, Ruffs and Sumptuary Laws 44:39 Hornbooks and the Grammar School 50:56 Apprentices, Masters and the Guilds 57:00 Physicians, Herbs and the Sweating Sickness 1:03:18 The Reformation in the Parish 1:09:49 The Royal Court at Hampton Court 1:16:19 The Queen on Summer Progress 1:22:33 An Afternoon at the Globe 1:28:40 Christmas Revels and May Day 1:34:54 Candles, the Night Watch and Sleep 1:41:30 Ambient only, no narration About Moonscroll History Gentle, boring history to fall asleep to. Facts are based on well-established history; where historians disagree, the story says so. Subscribe so the next sleep story is easy to find tonight. Narration is synthetic voice. Artwork: public-domain images via Wikimedia Commons, including the Armada Portrait of Elizabeth I (British School), A Fete at Bermondsey (c. 1569, attributed to Marcus Gheeraerts the Elder or Joris Hoefnagel, Hatfield House), Pieter Bruegel the Elder (The Harvesters, Metropolitan Museum of Art; The Peasant Wedding and Hunters in the Snow, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna), an engraving of Shakespeare's birthplace (1769), Pieter Aertsen (Vegetable Seller at the Market, 1567), Claude de Jongh (Old London Bridge), Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger (the Ditchley Portrait, National Portrait Gallery, London), a schoolmaster's signboard by Hans Holbein the Younger (Kunstmuseum Basel), Henry VIII and the Barber Surgeons (Hans Holbein the Younger and workshop, Barber-Surgeons' Hall), the title page of John Gerard's Herball (1633 edition), Edward VI and the Pope (National Portrait Gallery, London), The Family of Henry VIII (c. 1545, Royal Collection), the Procession Portrait of Elizabeth I (c. 1600, attributed to Robert Peake), the Globe Theatre from the Long Antwerp View of London, Godfried Schalcken (Lady at a Mirror by Candlelight, Mauritshuis), and Joris Hoefnagel (Nonsuch Palace, 1568). #historyforsleep #boringhistoryforsleep #sleepstory #tudorengland #tudors #moonscrollhistory