Hidden Killers Of The Tudor Home

n Hidden Killers Of The Tudor Home, Dr Suzannah Lipscomb ventures into the Tudor home in search of the household killers of the era. The Tudor era was a great age, one of exploration and science, and a time when adventurers returned from the New World with exotic goods never before seen or experiences in Europe. It was an era in which the newly emergent middle-classes found they had money for luxuries and early consumer goods for the very first time, but in discovering these goods they also learned of their hidden dangers. The period also saw a radical evolution of the very idea of the ‘home’, for Tudor merchant’s houses became multi-room structures instead of the single room habitations that had been the norm up until that point. This forced the homebuilders of the day to engineer radical new design solutions and technologies – some of which were lethal. In Hidden Killers Of The Tudor Home, Suzannah explores how in Tudor houses the threat of a grisly, unpleasant death was never far away in a world, or indeed home, still mired in the grime and filth of the Medieval period – and how we still live with the legacy of some of these killers today.