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In Tudor times the ‘common sort’ were no different from us, laughing together, mocking each other and sharing bawdy tales in tavern yards, marketplaces and anywhere else that people came together. These stories were later collected in the cheap print of the period, and professional storyteller Dave Tonge has sought them out to assemble here.
Within these pages hide smooth-talking tricksters, lusty knaves, wayward youths and stories of the eternal struggle to wear the breeches in the family, for a sometimes coarse but often comic telling of the everyday ups and downs in Tudor life.
18th February, 2020 in Folklore
As any storyteller will tell you, stories grow in the telling as they are adapted over time to suit the peoples who tell them and the places where they are told. And many of the stories we share are ancient, having already travelled far even before medieval writers like Giovanni…
4th January, 2016 in Folklore, History
The Tudor period was a time of turmoil with religious, political and social upheaval on a scale hardly witnessed before. Death and disease were never that far away and life was a struggle, especially for the poorer sort. The ruling classes also felt an uncertainty about the futur…
4th January, 2016 in Folklore, Society & Culture, Women in History
If you ever take yourself on a tour of the dungeons below Norwich Castle Museum you will be introduced to any number of instruments of torture from long ago. But the ones that really capture the public imagination are the ducking stool and scold’s bridle, said to have been used i…
