Tudor Football
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A reconstruction of the Shrove Tuesday Football game in Derbyshire.
A look at the Shrove Tuesday Football game in Ashbourne, Derbyshire, exploring the reasons why the same tradition was banned in Chester in Tudor times.
From:
Zig Zag Tudor Life: Entertainment: An Actor's Story
First broadcast
:
19 October 1998
Teachers' notes
Age Group : 7-9
Subject : History
Topic : Tudors and Stuarts
Keywords : Tudors, Tudor sport, History of football,
Notes : Why was shrove football banned in Chester? Does this football look like a modern football match? - analyse differences. Look at other sports played in Tudor times.
