Ruth Goodman (historian)

Ruth Goodman
Born	1963 (age 53–54)
Occupation	BBC Presenter, Historian
Notable work	BBC documentaries, advisor to the Victoria & Albert Museum
Children	2
Website	www.ruthgoodman.me.uk

Ruth Goodman (born 1963) is a British freelance historian of the early modern period, specialising in offering advice to museums and heritage attractions. She is a specialist in British social history and is a presenter of the BBC educational documentary series Victorian Farm, Victorian Pharmacy, Edwardian Farm, Tudor Monastery Farm, Wartime Farm and Full Steam Ahead. She also presented the 2005 series Tales from the Green Valley, and occasionally presents features for The One Show. She co-presented Secrets of the Castle in 2014.

She has been a consultant to the Victoria & Albert Museum and Shakespeare in Love. She is also a member of the Tudor Group, a re-enactment organisation for the Tudor period. As a result of her social history research, she has stopped using detergents in her washing machine, never eats factory farmed food and sometimes cooks on an open wood fire.

Goodman participated in the 2011 series of Celebrity Masterchef.

In 2009, Goodman starred alongside Alex Langlands and Peter Ginn in Victorian Farm for BBC Documentary. The Following year Ruth also participated in the second part of that series called Victorian Pharmacy, where she researches many of the common medical practises of the time along with Nick Barber, professor at University of London School of Pharmacy, and Tom Quick.

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