Daily life in the age of Queen Elizabeth I | Tracy Borman on Elizabethan England

[@catevanslife]

A brilliant video. I ❤ the social history of this period.

[@sarapanzarella97]

Very interesting to learn about her morning walks! Been listening to podcasts and books on Tudor history for 4 years straight and had never heard this! It probably helped her lifespan - walking is great for our health.

[@historyextra]

Most likely! Nothing like a brisk walk, whether you're Queen or not 👑

[@naomiweaver1855]

What a treat! Thank you for your video! An interesting book I just finished called At Day’s Close is about the history of night in the early modern era. People (all) went to bed early (rush lights, tallow, bees wax candles were precious) and woke after about three to four hours. They spent upwards of two hours busy at tasks or thinking in bed or chatting with a bed or room mate. Then back to sleep for second sleep. The nights were full of life.

[@Jettypilelegs]

I’ve been trying to remember this book’s title for bloody ages! Thank you

[@mjc1242]

So instructive and interesting. Beautifully narrated.

[@historyextra]

We aim to please ❤️

[@2007cgarza]

I'm hoping that in another 30 years, there are still people who are so interested and able to relay the same history. I was so fortunate to be able to see the MET exhibit in Manahttan last August, Sleeping Beauties and retiring garments, and when you mentioned body odor etc. on material, I shoot back to those sensory exhibits that were amazing.

[@track1949]

If we survive the next 30 years... In any case hopefully there will be people who will continue to be interested in this history.

[@luckylogger7594]

Keep them coming. I can't get enough details about the Tudors. Elizabeth loved horse backriding and hunting also.

[@moniquedawn5252]

Love Tudor history! Thank you !

[@chillpoint2956]

I like the word Lubberwort !

[@TheBungler76]

Love it! - really interesting!- looking forward to learning more about the tudors!

[@greylilycalligraphy]

Love this!! Thank you for sharing the video! I absolutely love the brooch you are wearing!

[@OSM758]

Alchemy being so popular with royalty and nobility is interesting considering that in the near future, the Salem witch trials would occur.

[@catherineball5071]

The Salem witch trials happened in America, not England, 90 years after Elizabeth's death There were much more significant and larger witch trials that happened in England much sooner after her death though

[@RaRaRiaJ]

Also, James I (VI) was obsessed with blaming everything on witches. I still think Salem is considered incredibly late for witch trials though, and was part of why it was so shocking

[@Yandarval]

@@RaRaRiaJ The witch obsession had been more or less over, in Europe, many decades before Salem. England's "Witchfinder-General" episode was three years in a small part of the country, in the 1640s. The 1640s and 50s were the height of the Puritan and Commonwealth periods in England.

[@E.K.2003]

​@catherineball5071 Witch trials actually started with King James the First in Scotland. Bill Reilly wrote Killing the Witches. He starts with the incident in Edinburgh, Scotland and from there goes across the pond with the Mayflower to America. Fascinating reading so far.

[@geegnosis8888]

USA must really tackle the bigots, nationalists and extremists in their populations.

[@simonapascariu2243]

Amazing, I am very impressed, thank you. So vivid and informative in each presented chapter.

[@koroba01]

Excellent video, love learning history. I enjoy your documentary work also.

[@rdo1231]

lovely work!

[@johnransom1146]

Didn’t they move the gems and pearls between dresses? They’d be taken off and restitched on another dress to save money and seem like you had endless money

[@marygrummer9189]

Very interesting! Thanks for sharing😊

[@eilsmile8732]

It makes me love loungewear even more!

[@curiousman1672]

Very interesting, but waayyyyyyyy too short.

[@CountessKitten]

Yes, Elizabeth seems rather rambunctious and spry to me! The way she went on with Leicester and Sir Walter and The Ill fated Earl of Essex, she cracks me up. I would have loved to have been a fly on her royal walls

[@vanessamartz7596]

I now do not feel badly about my huge closet of clothes, shoes, jewelry, and purses.

[@historyextra]

You'd have some fascinating insights for sure. 🪰

[@JamesMilliganJr]

Excellent!

[@gonnabeayogi1445]

Imagine if all those wonderful dresses had survived …. ❤

[@Aspasia2929]

It is actually one of Elizabeth’s favorite courtiers, Edward de Vere, the 17th Earl of Oxford, the brilliant child prodigy writing under the pseudonym William Shake-Speare who added over 2000-3000 words to the English language. If you’re not familiar with the Oxfordian truth about who the true author of the work attributed to the man from Stratford there’s many great documentaries that provide compelling evidence. My favorite is “Nothing is Truer Truth” which is playing on Amazon Prime featuring Mark Rylance and Derek Jacobi, it will blow your mind!

[@jilltagmorris]

Thank you ❤😊❤

[@Mermare]

We need to see your puppy! 😊

[@ginac895]

Yes please ❤

[@historyextra]

Check out Tracy's Instagram for lots of cute photos!

[@laurieb3703]

I always wonder what they would have thought of us. Our food our clothing etc. The fact that the poorest of us today (for the most part) live better than the Kings of the old days

[@richardpearce1114]

Fascinating.

[@vanessamartz7596]

Children always get their mother's face shape. Contemporary letters say that other than coloring, She looked like Anne Boleyn. I would like to see Anne based on Elizabeth's portraits.

[@jameschapman9375]

I've heard that Elizabeth loved candied violets? That she would eat them like popcorn!

[@Mermare]

I also read that she thought sweet things would make her breath smell "sweeter". However, nothing could help the smell of her rotten teeth.

[@jameschapman9375]

@Mermare she was hardly an outlier, however. Many nobles and royals throughout England and the continent had an insatiable appetite for sugar and no one had much of an idea about proper dental hygiene. Fluoride was still a long way off, unfortunately.

[@gscasale7772]

​@@jameschapman9375... and if that lubberwort Kennedy gets placed in the new usa Administration , fluoride may be gone again. What a dunce.

[@Mermare]

@@jameschapman9375 I didn't say she was an outlier. Where did you get that from my post?

[@mesamies123]

One knows many a lubberwort! 😉

[@winiferskattebol9492]

Perfect for the anniversary of her coronation.

[@NI4NI-y5f]

I don't think 'Respect' is what I would develop for people who insisted on wearing the most uncomftorable clothes possible, merely for affect. I think that betrays a real underlying Sadism or worship of Suffering that's, well, aberrant. It is not the natural state of any creature to SEEK Suffering and worship of it is NOT a good example of any kind. Accepting that Suffering is A PART of Life is one thing, but to aquiesce to or purposefully impose it on the bodies of Others is...unethical, from my pov. But then, I'm a 20C-21stC person (and I fully embrace the era we are in, even now). What I DO respect about QE1, was that she was able to help protect the burgeoning Englightenment from the small, archaic minds of the religiously dogmatic and the forward-facing posture of philosopher-scientists from utterly destroying each other. She was able to give both the space they needed to feel safe, exist, and thrive. As you can see globally, even today in some countries with backwards governments incapable of handling modern stresses, that is one heckuva feat to pull off. I hope that same tradition continues because human minds EVOLVE, but NOT at the same rates so we need to have Patience with each other.

[@Tam.I.am.]

I stopped the video to compare the herbalist's bookshelf to yours.

[@vanessamartz7596]

If only they had high density reactors, they could have made gold.

[@kevinwalsh1619]

Elizabeth I wore an air filter around her neck. Elizabeth II knew that air filters were for cars.

[@jbyrne3851]

???

[@AuraNikolich-wg5dx]

😂😂😂😂

[@vanessamartz7596]

I now do not feel badly about my huge closet of clothes, shoes, jewelry, and purses.

[@historyextra]

It's when you start storing Elizabethan ruffs in there that you'll really have a problem. Tend to take up space.

[@MsCValentiner]

Who is in that cage behind you?

[@eilsmile8732]

It’s a fire guard!

[@EagleRue]

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[@JunoDiovonaDemihof]

🤔 Elizabeth herself had absolutely horrible teeth, I wonder if introduction of sugar in England had to do with the beginning of absolutely deplorable dental hygiene of the English people…😢

[@rachelgates509]

You forgot to mention that, at the bottom, were women!!!

[@throughthewoods416]

What? She very quickly refers to social class but not gender roles?

[@generalcomments1239]

Shakespeare didn't exist.