PRAISE FOR HOW TO BEHAVE BADLY IN RENAISSANCE BRITAIN

‘Impeccable … [Goodman’s] research is as comprehensive as the advice she metes out to those wishing to emulate the bad behaviour of their ancestors.’

Tracy Borman, BBC History Magazine

‘This is a masterclass of bad behaviour … a lively romp through early modern British social history.’

Who Do You Think You Are? magazine

‘Entertaining.’

History Revealed magazine

PRAISE FOR HOW TO BE A TUDOR

‘This book is packed with delicious kernels of knowledge … all served up by the most delightfully eccentric author I’ve ever encountered.’

The Times

‘Always entertaining, and her narrative is often lifted by the fact that she has taken the trouble to experience many of the alien aspects of Tudor life.’

Observer

‘Goodman’s latest foray into immersive history is a revelation … It’s the next best thing to being there.’

New York Times Book Review

‘A deeply researched and endlessly fascinating account of what it was like to live as a Tudor. The narrative is rich in period detail and based upon a thorough review of the contemporary sources, but what makes it unique is the fact that Goodman has put it all into practice – sleeping, eating, washing and dressing like a Tudor. [It] is one of very few books which can justifiably claim to bring every aspect of this enduringly popular period dazzlingly to life.’

Tracy Borman

‘[Goodman’s] enthusiasm is exhilarating and contagious.’

Kate Tuttle, Boston Globe

‘Riveting. This is a real “people’s history” that takes us straight into the sensate feelings of ordinary life – the feel, touch, smells and labour of people living five centuries ago, giving an earthy reality to our enduring fascination with the Tudors.’

Juliet Gardiner

PRAISE FOR HOW TO BE A VICTORIAN

‘I absolutely love this book. Exuberant, absorbing.’

A. N. Wilson, Mail on Sunday

‘Ruth – a woman who possesses so much elbow grease that she could probably can the overflow to sell on the side.’

Independent

‘Written with such passion that one cannot help but be carried along … Will fascinate and inform anyone who is in any way interested in Victorian ways of life.’

Ian Mortimer

‘Makes you feel as if you could pass as a native.’

New Yorker

‘If the past is a foreign country because they do things differently there, we’re lucky to have such a knowledgeable cicerone as Ruth Goodman.’

Wall Street Journal