Nicholas Orme

Historian Professor Nicholas Orme explains what it was like growing up in Tudor England.

Orme looks at birth and infancy. How were children cared for? What did they play with? What were the games they played, including Blind Man’s Buff and Mumble-the-Peg. And what about the songs they were singing, including Three Blind Mice and Jack Boy, Ho Boy. Orme says social status determined everything for children from the food they ate and the clothes they wore to the education they received and the work they did.

Orme is emeritus professor of history at Exeter University and author of more than 30 books including Medieval Children, The History of England’s Cathedrals and Going to Church in Medieval England.