What can we learn about the way of life in Tudor Bristol? |
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| There are many written accounts and pictures that survive from the Tudor period that can help us learn what people's daily lives were like. Bristol has a variety of sources that can tell us what the city looked like, who lived here and what they did. The first maps of Bristol date from the Tudor period and there are descriptions of the streets and noteable landmarks in documents like William Worcestre's description of the city, though this dates to 1480, five years before Henry Tudor (Henry VII) came to the throne. There are other accounts that provide details about the merchants trading in Bristol and the goods being exported and imported through the port. All these different types of evidence help us to imagine what a day in the life of a Bristol merchant might have been like. A day in the life of a Tudor merchant. |