Ruth Goodman 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 ...

If the past is foreign country because they do things differently there, we’re lucky to have such a knowledgeable cicerone as Ruth Goodman. An expert in Renaissance customs (she was an adviser on the ...

Goodman, Ruth 1922 – 2012 Ruth Goodman, 89. Beloved wife of the late Samuel A. Goodman and the late Harold (Sonny) Garber. Beloved Mother of Susan (Bill) Curry and Dale (Tom) Lyneis. Beloved ...

Ruth Goodman is a rare person. She has not just researched the Victorian era, she has lived it. She has sewn its clothes, lived its conditions and done its work. Yes, she has washed floors in an ...

Historian Goodman (How to Behave Badly in Elizabethan England) delivers an immersive account of how England’s switch from wood to coal as a primary fuel source sparked massive social change. Between ...

British social historian Goodman reveals what life was like in the Victorian era in a manner most readers have likely never encountered before: by personally subscribing to Victorian mores and way of ...

Fox Point - On Apr. 15, 2022, after battling Alzheimer's for 11 years, Ruth Goodman Hiller - a loving wife, mother, grandmother and great-grandmother - passed away at the age of 95. Ruth was born on ...