I'm an Irish man , all but 51yrs in this earth. I absolutely adore these programs ,.. I enjoy watching what the lads get up to , as most of the machinery they used , they are some of those on our farm.. Some have naturally ceased up , but the iron or steel is amazingly still as good as the day they were made . Ruth is an amazing woman... I know not if they slept , ate and lived this day and night . But even when you look at Ruth's fingernails ... they're you'll find dirt ... Not manicured and false. Why our own TV producers can't do things like this in Ireland , but I guess they haven't the imagination to do so. Thanks for this series , I have rewatched it over and over 😅
I am amaze to see how people was making everything from scratch. They are really self sufficient at that period. Their ingenuity is incredible advance at that time. I am surprise by the search of perfecting every aspect of the farming life and the quantity of documentation. It means how dedicated, hardworking and pride people of the victorian era put on their day to day life tasks.
Well, now the whole world is starting to realize what life is like for us "shut-ins" due to COVID-19. Who would have guessed that a year ago when you wrote your comment? LL
It's heartwarming how the gifts are mostly home-made. The most special gifts are the ones that friends and loved ones have put real time and energy into making especially for you. Composing a song or writing a story for someone you love can be just as special, if not more so, than anything physical.
please, please , please do more of these, I think a greater understanding of "everyday" history will make us all better people and perhaps a little more grateful, they are just amazing!
i just found a channel called "Townsends, a channel dedicated to 18th century lifestyle"; you might like it too. I really enjoy their cooking episodes.
Ruth making homemade Mincemeat almost brought a tear to my eye. I remember helping my Mom make Mincemeat from about the age of 10 - peeling the apples and chopping them, soaking the raisins, and soaking almonds to de-skin them ( seems practically medieval ) probably because they were cheaper than ones that were already blanched. Her parents were Brits, so we did many of these traditions, including Christmas Pudding. Great memories.
I am obsessed with these Farm series!! Ruth Goodman is such an inspiration and she's inspired me to study social history/domestic history of the Victorian Edwardian era. Thanks for posting them..:O) Hugs Mary
Oh I heard of the book, she was promoting it just last week I think on one of the Facebook groups that she is in. I'm going to have to order it, can't wait!!!! I agree, I'm thrilled tooooooooo!
It's similar in format to the Victorian book, but it's about the Tudor era, which I believe is the era Goodman is most passionate about(I may be mistaken). I prefer the Victorian book just because I'm more interested in that era, but as always Goodman writes passionately and in great detail about what it was truly like to live in a different time. Ruth's books are some of my favorite because a lot of her research comes from historical reenactment and therefore she can speak from personal experience with what the clothes feel like, what it's like to use certain devices, etc.
I swear these three are time travelers. They do great, no matter what time period they are living in. I love the fact that Ruth does many of these things in her "real" life. I don't think I could cook over a old stove all the time. I would have loved to have all three of them as History teachers! Thanks for posting these.
ever since my first introduction to Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" and reading this great story, I've been fascinated with all things Victorian. these episodes are such a gift for me, many thanks for this great series!!
I appreciate Christmas celebration now after watching how much effort and back-breaking work goes into preparation for the simple occasion compared to going to shops and buying ready made gift wraps, mini trees and ornaments. I hope children nowadays watch more of these to appreciate everything around them with a grateful heart.
Things used to be made to last, and be repaired as needed. Quality was the most important thing, with price the second most important thing. When price became the most important thing, all the good local jobs disappeared, as everything was outsourced to countries where workers have no rights, and are paid starvation wages for working very long hours. There's no real quality control, and many products are DOA, or quickly break. They're so shoddy that they can't be repaired, so they end up in a garbage dump.
Imagine that in 100 years there will be a sries showing life of the early XXI century: "In 2015 people started to prefer internet over the tv, now I'm going to attempt to watch old UA-cam for 12 h, just like in the good old days of our great grandparents"
By then, they'll probably be in super realistic virtual worlds and will be baffled that anyone ever looked at a tiny screen, like if they want to watch a video on gardening, there will probably content creators out there with virtual gardens for people to walk around and dig in like you're actually there
@Audrey-Anne I'm probably the same age as his Mum - so I'm going to say: a.) Big shout-out to his parents, for raising such a bright, kind, hard-working son, and: b.) definitely want Peter around if you're lost in the Forrest - he'd have a lean-to built, a fire made and a rabbit for dinner before you could say Bob's yer Uncle ! 👍
I just found this video about a month ago. This is my second time watching through it. So fascinating and I just love Ruth! “I’m sleeping in an envelope!” She is so sweet.
She needed to attach the faces of her blanket together with buttons. They would stop the thread from cutting thru the paper, just one on each side. This is a version of knot quilts which were made with fabric, but instead of taking all the time to quilt the cover, base and top of a quilt together(sewing the layers together with a running stitch or back stitch in a pattern) which can take a LONG time, you just sewed buttons on at intervals thru all the layers, OR you just knotted a thread thru at intervals to hold it all together.
Wow! thank you so much for this tip, I learned to quilt from women who were 45 years older than I when I was just 17 years old. I also learned to repair quilts, but I never knew this helpful tip. Thank you again you are most kind and gracious to share.
I love these videos. They all are workers. I love the cottage and how they fixed it up. The use of coal to cook with is good because it also heats the house.My grandmother would put potatos in hot ash to cook
Wood will heat a whole house too. The secret is to have ducts running from the stove, throughout the house. In Switzerland, where it gets very cold in winter, stoves were made of ceramic bricks, and were linked by ducts running throughout the house. Bricks hold the heat for much longer than iron does, and gradually release it for hours. Coal smoke and ashes make food taste terrible. That's why coal stoves had a separate compartment for the coal, to keep it separate from the food. Wood smoke and wood ashes add delicious flavour to food, so wood-fired stoves and fireplaces were open, allowing the smoke to circulate, flavouring the food. Ruth talks about this on "Full Steam Ahead", in the episode about how the railways changed the way people eat. Charcoal is different from coal. It's processed to remove a lot of the nasty stuff, thus creating a fuel that burns much hotter and cleaner than coal.
'This takes me back to my child hood this does 'Was your father a blacksmith?' No, no I just played with legos, lots of bricks. I was good!"I just about died.
@@chndlr18 It's ironic and also funny that somebody offended by a different dialect of English is calling someone else a snowflake. My first thought was Eyore too!
It is interesting to note how many things we still do the same on our small family farms today. Our donkeys do not look sad or miserable at all. They are sweet and usually obliging unless they aren't. We heat with wood, entirely, sew clothes, grow what we eat and have a wonderful blacksmith who visits to trim the donkeys' hooves, and horses when we have some. We lost a half dozen chickens to coyotes last week. The farmers in this special were more likely to lose poultry to foxes; so far the red foxes around here have stayed a distance away as have the bobcats. Our masonry unit that heats our log home is made from bricks that were handmade from the 1800's with interesting finger prints, etc in them. We got them from handpicking through piles of stone rubble at demo sites.
It’s amazing-just incredible how people coped with life and so much is a lost art. I’m so impressed with all the ways they came up with to survive. Enjoyed so much
Husband shakes his head and tells me I watch the oddest things. Yeah, but I know how to make my own salt if I need to so, HA! The jokes on you because I learn a lot from this series.
@@Anvilshock Its not a question of standards. The British government uses license fees (e.g. for BBC) to help fund the sites and the TV projects. It is a NATIONAL effort (UK is a small country) The USA has state-sponsored (PBS, etc.) programs affiliated with specific Public TV channels in each state. Also, USA has many living history museums[1][2] that produce very good DVDs and YT channels. You can go to the various places' websites and access material online. Washington's home, Mount Vernon has a YT channel. It features living history actors and also records lectures by professional historians. ________________________________________ 1.) *"List of open-air and living history museums in the United States" * en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_open-air_and_living_history_museums_in_the_United_States 2.) *"Top 10 Living History Museums in USA"* (i.e. most well-known sites) greenglobaltravel.com/top-10-living-history-museums-in-america/#:~:text=Top%2010%20Living%20History%20Museums%20In%20America.%201,OF%20SAN%20DIEGO%20%28San%20Diego%2C%20California%29%20More%20items
This is so educational, but at the same time full of history, culture and beauty. I'm impressed. Thanks for bringing such educational programs for the whole World to see and enjoy in Christmas time. Merry Christmas to all and a Happy and better 2021!
These kinds of shows make me so happy. Especially in times like these. I know people worked a ton harder to survive than I have to, but the work must be so satisfying.
I wish she would have explained where the Victorians got their mushroom spores. I love mushrooms and spend a lot of time in the woods foraging for them. But I can't imagine getting the spores would have been a very easy thing to acquire, especially in Victorian times.
I've rewatched the farm series multiple times and love them. I also realized in this episode i think Ruth's daughter eve is wearing the dress that Ruth made in the first Victorian farm series.
Did anyone else see that Ruth's daughter had Ruth's hand sewn rose patterned dress from the normal Victorian Farm Series? I just thought that was cool using the same clothing from the first series
Scott Johnson after watching more than 1/2 of this special already, I’m pretty sure they used footage from that series for this special to fill in gaps.
Ruth made her own clothing for all of the historical series. Though, due to time constraints, a friend helped her with the clothes for "The Edwardian Farm". She wore the floral-patterned dress she made on "The Victorian Farm" in episode 2 of "The Victorian Pharmacy".
@36:29 ...Yes, the sage herb tea needs to be strongly steeped, the vinegar is to help bring down the fever and the honey is for taste...garlic works also and lemon , cinnamon, ginger, ......and salt
Here in Northeast Tennessee, America, durring Victorian times through the 1940s, lamp globes were cleaned every morning, not weekly as on this program.
This is beautiful. This is how people go on during these times, but it was probably a lot more grueling. Everything is very labor intensive. Everyone needs a hot bath at the end of the day! A lot to be proud of.
My wife's grandfather and my grandfather made a cough syrup from lemon juice, honey, hot water and bourbon. Her grandfather was a physician and mine was a veterinarian. Seventy seven years later, we still find it useful.
Lemon juice soothes a sore throat and gives a shot of Vitamin C- Honey does not allow bacterial growth & balances the sour lemon. The bourbon of course was for the alcohol content - to relax and not mind your symptoms as much, or get sleep lol. I make a strong tea & add honey & lemon- it soothes the whole time you're drinking it. Honey & vinegar makes a great allergy reducer too. Because the honey is MADE with pollen, it acts like a mild dose of what ails you- like a mild allergy shot.
My marriage from Viet nam which I lost him. Well to do family but my family never taught me. I .love this video teaching me a lot I still don't cook. They really worked hard in those days to have a simple thing Happy people here. Hope they show more of the wife duties. Good video
I am Belgian, I follow this, we have a famous park here, Bokrijk, in which we can visit sites all season long. (no winter). You can participate in brick making, bread baking, pottery, milling...It grow every year for 40 years now ! A,nd there is a 60’s department...All in Brave Little Belgium, you need culture and history preservation by public instruction, partly financed by private capital.
This instruction vlog is quite lovely. I have enjoyed it greatly. With this plague, Covid-19, we might have to live inventively, to keep our skills up to par. Solar panels work in the sun, if there is any. And wind turbines, work by wind, if there is any. We might have only the past to depend on. Thank You for this information.
It was way to much hard work for me. I grew up on a farm but I worked in the house. Something's I can relate to. Like seeing. I took sewing and cooking in school and I even had a couple of lamps recovered from my parents old house where I was born. We had the lamps for many years and brought them with us to Portland, Oregon. But I don't have them anymore.
I have binge watched them all. The Monastic Tudor farm, The Victorian Farm, and Secrets of the castle. Now what am I to do?!!! I absolutely adore Ruth. She really cracks me up. Alex is cool but I miss Tom.
critterlover4278 I just found another one...The War time Farm that the 3 have done as well. It was easy for me to see how many I’ve missed myself. All I did was type Ruth Goodman into the search on UA-cam! Hope that helps😊
When I was a kid, I learned to sew watching my mom and sewing on the occasional button. When I entered the army as an adult I could sew on my buttons and darn my woolen socks.
During the mid-40s and early 50s in Fulham, our house still had gas light and for street lighting. We only had electric light when we moved to Essex in 1952 and the only thing that was electrical in our place in Fulham was an outlet installed for the radio. Cheap landlord. Alex made another faux pas when he referred to smog. In fact, smog was/is a combination of smoke and fog and growing up in London we had smog and pea soupers. Pea soupers were very heavy smog that was literally the colour of pea soup. Traffic stopped - nobody could, including the buses, because you could not see more than a foot or so in front of you. We were let out of school early and would walk with a hand touching a wall, or whatever, for guidance. It was easy to get lost just crossing a street. The smoke Alex called smog was nothing but would certainly cause serious health problems.
My favorite bit: Peter: "Why are we whispering"? Alex: "because we don't want to wake Mr. Up". Lol😂😂😂. I love history and Victorian days amazing site to be hold.💗💗💗
Oooh! I so want to live there on the farm in the Victorian era. Once you experience the life of the Victorians you never want to go back to the 21st Century. Hard work, beautiful sunsets, staring at the stars without street lights. Cooking, eating, and enjoying your food without the technology of gadgets. My mother always said I should have been born in the Victorian era, and now I live in a Victorian castle (1897), enjoy Victorian furnishings, and eating Victorian foods. Yes, I also celebrate a Victorian Christmas in a Victorian castle with lots of candles.
Ooh, wrapping the potatoe in clay and then bake it reminds me of delicious "beggar's chicken" I enjoyed in Hong Kong (before some things went wrong); but in former times also in Europe hedgehogs were prepared that way in order to remove the stings.
@@oldschool8432 Yes, regular (= poor) people had no big choice if they wanted a wholesome meal and hunting (or collecting wood) was not allowed to ordinary people in medieval times...
Baked potato with lots of butter cooked outside really tasty .nobody taught me to cook or sew so therefore I just push a button. When I got married again nobody taught me others did it for me but when I became a military I learned to make a meal eatable that's all. I couldn't make a decent cake or brownies from a box. My daughter can sew draw cook and she was taught to sew do . Her daddy's mother taught her to also draw paint her cooking will do. Well to do family don't. Take the time with their children. This video is teaching me some things. I love watching this how they lived in that time. Education video.
I'm an Irish man , all but 51yrs in this earth.
I absolutely adore these programs ,.. I enjoy watching what the lads get up to , as most of the machinery they used , they are some of those on our farm..
Some have naturally ceased up , but the iron or steel is amazingly still as good as the day they were made .
Ruth is an amazing woman... I know not if they slept , ate and lived this day and night . But even when you look at Ruth's fingernails ... they're you'll find dirt ... Not manicured and false.
Why our own TV producers can't do things like this in Ireland , but I guess they haven't the imagination to do so. Thanks for this series , I have rewatched it over and over 😅
I am amaze to see how people was making everything from scratch. They are really self sufficient at that period. Their ingenuity is incredible advance at that time. I am surprise by the search of perfecting every aspect of the farming life and the quantity of documentation. It means how dedicated, hardworking and pride people of the victorian era put on their day to day life tasks.
Honestly don’t know what I would do without BBC on Utube and PBS!! Life can get VERY routine when you’re in a personal care home...THANKS SO MUCH!!
Well, now the whole world is starting to realize what life is like for us "shut-ins" due to COVID-19. Who would have guessed that a year ago when you wrote your comment? LL
UA-cam, not Utube.
@@Anvilshock 🙄
Charlotte &Laura..❤️
Charlotte,Laura,this is me 💖💖💖💖💖💖
It's heartwarming how the gifts are mostly home-made. The most special gifts are the ones that friends and loved ones have put real time and energy into making especially for you. Composing a song or writing a story for someone you love can be just as special, if not more so, than anything physical.
please, please , please do more of these, I think a greater understanding of "everyday" history will make us all better people and perhaps a little more grateful, they are just amazing!
agree! I want to learn more too :-)
i just found a channel called "Townsends, a channel dedicated to 18th century lifestyle"; you might like it too. I really enjoy their cooking episodes.
Betty Jones
They have done more. Victorian Pharmacy is one. Ruth is in most of them. Look on UA-cam. That's were I found them.
"We" (people living in 2020) owe a great debt
to our forebearers. They not only survived but
they managed to thrive (most of the time).
Ruth making homemade Mincemeat almost brought a tear to my eye. I remember helping my Mom make Mincemeat from about the age of 10 - peeling the apples and chopping them, soaking the raisins, and soaking almonds to de-skin them ( seems practically medieval ) probably because they were cheaper than ones that were already blanched. Her parents were Brits, so we did many of these traditions, including Christmas Pudding. Great memories.
I am obsessed with these Farm series!! Ruth Goodman is such an inspiration and she's inspired me to study social history/domestic history of the Victorian Edwardian era. Thanks for posting them..:O)
Hugs
Mary
+mary “CraftyMom101” m She's coming out with a new book in the new year! It's available for preorder now. I'm so excited. :)
Oh I heard of the book, she was promoting it just last week I think on one of the Facebook groups that she is in. I'm going to have to order it, can't wait!!!! I agree, I'm thrilled tooooooooo!
What is the book about? I have her book on Victorian life.Hannah
It's similar in format to the Victorian book, but it's about the Tudor era, which I believe is the era Goodman is most passionate about(I may be mistaken). I prefer the Victorian book just because I'm more interested in that era, but as always Goodman writes passionately and in great detail about what it was truly like to live in a different time.
Ruth's books are some of my favorite because a lot of her research comes from historical reenactment and therefore she can speak from personal experience with what the clothes feel like, what it's like to use certain devices, etc.
I love Ruth's laugh, she is the best.
"Was your father a blacksmith?"
"No no I used to play with Legos"
😂😂😂
The way he responded with that half smile lol
Que Benito Lugar me gustaria vivir.ay
Lol
Shouldn't he have asked if his father was a bricklayer? A blacksmith wouldn't lay bricks would he?
The funniest thing is watching her stomping around on all that horse krap happy as a lark!only a retro hippie would enjoy that as much as Ruth!
@calihartley2010 I'm certain she is. Couldn't find any info on her maiden name, though.
@calihartley2010 I was thinking how much she looks like Victoria, who was not Jewish at all. Victoria's nose was very much like Ruth's.
Is there a cost to watch this?
I am won over by everyone's enjoyment and passion 👍👍👍 I am fascinated
I swear these three are time travelers. They do great, no matter what time period they are living in. I love the fact that Ruth does many of these things in her "real" life. I don't think I could cook over a old stove all the time. I would have loved to have all three of them as History teachers! Thanks for posting these.
ever since my first introduction to Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" and reading this great story, I've been fascinated with all things Victorian. these episodes are such a gift for me, many thanks for this great series!!
norm lor watch The Victorian Slum series
Fascinating to see how they did things from scratch. And they took their fun from ordinary life. The clog dancing made me smile big time!
This is like an English/Historical mythbusters. It's also super relaxing to watch.
K. Nakanishi
Exactly 👌🏽
Yes...super relaxing. There was a “ruggedness” about it..But I liked the personalities..They really drew you in.
Yes...super relaxing. There was a “ruggedness” about it..But I liked the personalities..They really drew you in.
Yeah
Isn't it? I'm bingeing!
I've just finished binge watching the Victorian Farm and now deeply enjoying this!
I appreciate Christmas celebration now after watching how much effort and back-breaking work goes into preparation for the simple occasion compared to going to shops and buying ready made gift wraps, mini trees and ornaments. I hope children nowadays watch more of these to appreciate everything around them with a grateful heart.
im always amazed by the sheer durability of many victorian machines and tools
Things used to be made to last, and be repaired as needed. Quality was the most important thing, with price the second most important thing.
When price became the most important thing, all the good local jobs disappeared, as everything was outsourced to countries where workers have no rights, and are paid starvation wages for working very long hours. There's no real quality control, and many products are DOA, or quickly break. They're so shoddy that they can't be repaired, so they end up in a garbage dump.
Imagine that in 100 years there will be a sries showing life of the early XXI century:
"In 2015 people started to prefer internet over the tv, now I'm going to attempt to watch old UA-cam for 12 h, just like in the good old days of our great grandparents"
I enjoy watching movie clips and full movies from the 1930's era with such stars as Ruby Keeler and Dick Powell.
serendipidus1 i suspect our descendants will know a lot about us since we have so many more sources of information.
Im creeped out
By then, they'll probably be in super realistic virtual worlds and will be baffled that anyone ever looked at a tiny screen, like if they want to watch a video on gardening, there will probably content creators out there with virtual gardens for people to walk around and dig in like you're actually there
That was so clever-best you go back a bit more-many of 60&70+are Tweeting Facebooking instagraming&Amazon priming
I am ADORING this tv show. Greetings from Mexico and thank you for uploading these videos!
I love these series, they give you a window to the past that is fun and interesting.
I love these Farm series. Thanks for posting them! Hugs from Norway.
Little
Peter: “Why are we whispering?”
Alex: “We don’t want to wake Mr.Akton”
😂😂😂😂
I will forever have a crush on Peter Ginn.
Agreed!
Ooh, me too!!! To have such a friendly, patient, funny, handsome, hard working gentleman.
Me too. Wonder if he’s married. If he is she’s a lucky woman
@Audrey-Anne I'm probably the same age as his Mum - so I'm going to say: a.) Big shout-out to his parents, for raising such a bright, kind, hard-working son, and: b.) definitely want Peter around if you're lost in the Forrest - he'd have a lean-to built, a fire made and a rabbit for dinner before you could say Bob's yer Uncle ! 👍
Audrey-Anne me too 😊
I just found this video about a month ago. This is my second time watching through it. So fascinating and I just love Ruth! “I’m sleeping in an envelope!” She is so sweet.
She needed to attach the faces of her blanket together with buttons. They would stop the thread from cutting thru the paper, just one on each side. This is a version of knot quilts which were made with fabric, but instead of taking all the time to quilt the cover, base and top of a quilt together(sewing the layers together with a running stitch or back stitch in a pattern) which can take a LONG time, you just sewed buttons on at intervals thru all the layers, OR you just knotted a thread thru at intervals to hold it all together.
Wow! thank you so much for this tip, I learned to quilt from women who were 45 years older than I when I was just 17 years old. I also learned to repair quilts, but I never knew this helpful tip. Thank you again you are most kind and gracious to share.
I just love how the Acton property gets all kinds of restoration and stuff sorted as Projects
Great series! I couldn't believe the guys making the bricks with the clay were wearing nice outfits.
What a lovely video. Thank you so much for showcasing old archaic skills and the people who are making sure they don't die out.
I have thoroughly enjoyed this series for the second time. What a great trio.
I love these videos. They all are workers. I love the cottage and how they fixed it up. The use of coal to cook with is good because it also heats the house.My grandmother would put potatos in hot ash to cook
Wood will heat a whole house too. The secret is to have ducts running from the stove, throughout the house. In Switzerland, where it gets very cold in winter, stoves were made of ceramic bricks, and were linked by ducts running throughout the house. Bricks hold the heat for much longer than iron does, and gradually release it for hours.
Coal smoke and ashes make food taste terrible. That's why coal stoves had a separate compartment for the coal, to keep it separate from the food. Wood smoke and wood ashes add delicious flavour to food, so wood-fired stoves and fireplaces were open, allowing the smoke to circulate, flavouring the food.
Ruth talks about this on "Full Steam Ahead", in the episode about how the railways changed the way people eat.
Charcoal is different from coal. It's processed to remove a lot of the nasty stuff, thus creating a fuel that burns much hotter and cleaner than coal.
'This takes me back to my child hood this does 'Was your father a blacksmith?' No, no I just played with legos, lots of bricks. I was good!"I just about died.
I read this comment right when Peter said this! Life is so weird sometimes.
Que.paiz.es
“I’ve never seen an animal look so miserable all the time”
Me: ohhh so that’s why Eeyore be like that
Be like that? Where did you learn English? Off a toilet stall?
@@chndlr18 it's vernacular. Rude much?
@@camilledvorak7151 ❄️️
@@chndlr18 It's ironic and also funny that somebody offended by a different dialect of English is calling someone else a snowflake.
My first thought was Eyore too!
I think donkey's are so very cute.nex door to us in Dublin, they had tow, Salt and pepper, 5 years after they still recognaise our voices.
Ruth has such an infectious laugh! Even though much of the work is drudgery she seems to find a way of sunshine. The fellas are amazing craftsmen!
Great series love these three work well together learn lots from the farm series thank you
Thank you, very much, for uploading these. 🇺🇸❤️🇬🇧
So thankful to you for sharing. A hard life but so much simpler. People appreciated the small things.
That paper blanket would keep me awake at night
bleeka325 (
You would probably be so exhausted from the physical labor you wouldn't even notice
Maybe it was a Victorian hoax.
I throughly enjoyed this show. I was glued to the screen.
It is interesting to note how many things we still do the same on our small family farms today. Our donkeys do not look sad or miserable at all. They are sweet and usually obliging unless they aren't. We heat with wood, entirely, sew clothes, grow what we eat and have a wonderful blacksmith who visits to trim the donkeys' hooves, and horses when we have some. We lost a half dozen chickens to coyotes last week. The farmers in this special were more likely to lose poultry to foxes; so far the red foxes around here have stayed a distance away as have the bobcats. Our masonry unit that heats our log home is made from bricks that were handmade from the 1800's with interesting finger prints, etc in them. We got them from handpicking through piles of stone rubble at demo sites.
I think Colin is one of my favorite experts to come on and help.
Imagine the scale of workers and craftsman that were needed to build the enormous castles in Tudor times to build the massive castles!
They have a castle series. It's not Tudor, but it is cool.
It’s amazing-just incredible how people coped with life and so much is a lost art. I’m so impressed with all the ways they came up with to survive. Enjoyed so much
Thank you Ruth, Peter & Alex
Husband shakes his head and tells me I watch the oddest things.
Yeah, but I know how to make my own salt if I need to so, HA! The jokes on you because I learn a lot from this series.
Loves this series. Ruth, Peter and Alex are hilarious.
For what ever reason I prefer watching this over anything from the US and that sad because I’m An American
Why would you having standards be sad?
Yes I'm an American
Anvilshock people don’t agree or say I’m not normal
It’s unfortunate that this channel has chosen to make 95% of these shows unavailable in the US.
@@Anvilshock
Its not a question of standards.
The British government uses license
fees (e.g. for BBC) to help fund the
sites and the TV projects. It is a
NATIONAL effort (UK is a small
country)
The USA has state-sponsored (PBS,
etc.) programs affiliated with specific
Public TV channels in each state.
Also, USA has many living history
museums[1][2] that produce very good
DVDs and YT channels. You can
go to the various places' websites
and access material online.
Washington's home, Mount Vernon
has a YT channel. It features living
history actors and also records
lectures by professional historians.
________________________________________
1.) *"List of open-air and living history museums in the United States"
*
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_open-air_and_living_history_museums_in_the_United_States
2.) *"Top 10 Living History Museums in USA"*
(i.e. most well-known sites)
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I love how no matter its Alex who goes up the ladder. I am terrified of heights. He is sooo brave.
Watched the Victorian Baker series and the Farm. Now this. Fascinating.
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Very nice to watch, relaxing, during Covid quarantining!!!!
This is so educational, but at the same time full of history, culture and beauty. I'm impressed. Thanks for bringing such educational programs for the whole World to see and enjoy in Christmas time. Merry Christmas to all and a Happy and better 2021!
I want to be Ruth when I grow up.
These kinds of shows make me so happy. Especially in times like these. I know people worked a ton harder to survive than I have to, but the work must be so satisfying.
I love this! We watched it on Knowledge Network in BC Canada about 10 years ago!
Why does youtube always recommend the second video in a seemingly interesting series? I'll be back to watch this later.
I too am obsessed with the Farm series. Not so much of the Bakers. Makes me go out and by confections and in Texas, everything is big.
41:47
Peter: Stinks... but probably not as much as me!
😂😂😂
I wish she would have explained where the Victorians got their mushroom spores. I love mushrooms and spend a lot of time in the woods foraging for them. But I can't imagine getting the spores would have been a very easy thing to acquire, especially in Victorian times.
You're incredibly brave, I would be too scared of poisonous ones.
I've rewatched the farm series multiple times and love them. I also realized in this episode i think Ruth's daughter eve is wearing the dress that Ruth made in the first Victorian farm series.
Ruth seems like a complete doll. I'd love to do historical things with her.
Did anyone else see that Ruth's daughter had Ruth's hand sewn rose patterned dress from the normal Victorian Farm Series? I just thought that was cool using the same clothing from the first series
Scott Johnson after watching more than 1/2 of this special already, I’m pretty sure they used footage from that series for this special to fill in gaps.
Is she really her daughter or a part of their team?
@@littleMsWilmie
She's Ruth's real daughter.
Ruth made her own clothing for all of the historical series. Though, due to time constraints, a friend helped her with the clothes for "The Edwardian Farm". She wore the floral-patterned dress she made on "The Victorian Farm" in episode 2 of "The Victorian Pharmacy".
I'm glad this showed up on my recommend list. So interesting.
Many of these old skills are very precious. Now I know how to tend my oil lamps with cissors and vinegar. Works perfectly.
@36:29 ...Yes, the sage herb tea needs to be strongly steeped, the vinegar is to help bring down the fever and the honey is for taste...garlic works also and lemon , cinnamon, ginger, ......and salt
Here in Northeast Tennessee, America, durring Victorian times through the 1940s, lamp globes were cleaned every morning, not weekly as on this program.
S P E C T A C U L A R servies!!!! So educational and presented so well! Please keep up the great work!
I love this era thanks so much ❤️ take my mind elsewhere for a while much needed right now
This is beautiful. This is how people go on during these times, but it was probably a lot more grueling. Everything is very labor intensive. Everyone needs a hot bath at the end of the day! A lot to be proud of.
I love this series and how hard they are trying to do everything authentically for the time period!
Omg the conservation order though.... lmao
I think I have watched all the episodes three times. What a great job.
The approaches and techniques are ingenious!
My wife's grandfather and my grandfather made a cough syrup from lemon juice, honey, hot water and bourbon. Her grandfather was a physician and mine was a veterinarian. Seventy seven years later, we still find it useful.
Lemon juice soothes a sore throat and gives a shot of Vitamin C- Honey does not allow bacterial growth & balances the sour lemon. The bourbon of course was for the alcohol content - to relax and not mind your symptoms as much, or get sleep lol. I make a strong tea & add honey & lemon- it soothes the whole time you're drinking it. Honey & vinegar makes a great allergy reducer too. Because the honey is MADE with pollen, it acts like a mild dose of what ails you- like a mild allergy shot.
My marriage from Viet nam which I lost him. Well to do family but my family never taught me. I .love this video teaching me a lot I still don't cook. They really worked hard in those days to have a simple thing
Happy people here. Hope they show more of the wife duties. Good video
Peter is my new hero!! That green great coat!!!
Love. This. Show. Please make another Christmas episode
This feels like a warm blanket
Thank you,it was a cure for the eyes and mind.
I love this series. Ruth is fierce!
I am Belgian, I follow this, we have a famous park here, Bokrijk, in which we can visit sites all season long. (no winter). You can participate in brick making, bread baking, pottery, milling...It grow every year for 40 years now ! A,nd there is a 60’s department...All in Brave Little Belgium, you need culture and history preservation by public instruction, partly financed by private capital.
Interesting, I'll look it up! GOD bless from Canada.
This instruction vlog is quite lovely. I have enjoyed it greatly. With this plague, Covid-19, we might have to live inventively, to keep our skills up to par. Solar panels work in the sun, if there is any. And wind turbines, work by wind, if there is any. We might have only the past to depend on. Thank You for this information.
You are obsessed by Victorian period. I am obsessed by entire history.
It was way to much hard work for me. I grew up on a farm but I worked in the house. Something's I can relate to. Like seeing. I took sewing and cooking in school and I even had a couple of lamps recovered from my parents old house where I was born. We had the lamps for many years and brought them with us to Portland, Oregon. But I don't have them anymore.
What an amazing and extremely interesting documentary ! I’ve enjoyed it from beginning to end very much! Great find! Ty for the upload!
I have binge watched them all. The Monastic Tudor farm, The Victorian Farm, and Secrets of the castle. Now what am I to do?!!! I absolutely adore Ruth. She really cracks me up. Alex is cool but I miss Tom.
critterlover4278 there’s a Victorian Pharmacy one with Ruth in it!
critterlover4278, also have you watched the Edwardian Farm series? It’s pretty good too! 😊 Oh and another one called Full Steam ahead. 😊
critterlover4278 I just found another one...The War time Farm that the 3 have done as well. It was easy for me to see how many I’ve missed myself. All I did was type Ruth Goodman into the search on UA-cam! Hope that helps😊
Thank you for this... i loved every bit of this
I first learned to sew when I was 6...how young girls started learning to sew is no surprise.
When I was a kid, I learned to sew watching my mom and sewing on the occasional button. When I entered the army as an adult I could sew on my buttons and darn my woolen socks.
CairineTheElfHearted same here but I learned in home economics classes which beside art class , was one of my fav classes !
My Mother had me mending all the families socks and sewing buttons back on when I was 6 years.
I love these 3 they are so pleasant to watch. Wish I could meet them.
During the mid-40s and early 50s in Fulham, our house still had gas light and for street lighting. We only had electric light when we moved to Essex in 1952 and the only thing that was electrical in our place in Fulham was an outlet installed for the radio. Cheap landlord.
Alex made another faux pas when he referred to smog. In fact, smog was/is a combination of smoke and fog and growing up in London we had smog and pea soupers. Pea soupers were very heavy smog that was literally the colour of pea soup. Traffic stopped - nobody could, including the buses, because you could not see more than a foot or so in front of you. We were let out of school early and would walk with a hand touching a wall, or whatever, for guidance. It was easy to get lost just crossing a street. The smoke Alex called smog was nothing but would certainly cause serious health problems.
I love how quirky Ruth is.
Brandon Dobson "I'm sleeping in an envelope." Yup.
Very interesting hard work. Beautiful
I love Ruth's energy annd enthusiasm.
Just love this. Excellent clip.👍
My favorite bit:
Peter: "Why are we whispering"?
Alex: "because we don't want to wake Mr. Up". Lol😂😂😂.
I love history and Victorian days amazing site to be hold.💗💗💗
I love Ruth! She's a real trooper and has a good attitude.
I swear....watching Alex and Peter sometimes makes me think they've been hitting the bong just before filming they're so giggly. lol
It's exhaustion.
Loved watching this!! A Victorian Christmas would been fun and memorable to been apart of.
Oooh! I so want to live there on the farm in the Victorian era. Once you experience the life of the Victorians you never want to go back to the 21st Century. Hard work, beautiful sunsets, staring at the stars without street lights. Cooking, eating, and enjoying your food without the technology of gadgets. My mother always said I should have been born in the Victorian era, and now I live in a Victorian castle (1897), enjoy Victorian furnishings, and eating Victorian foods. Yes, I also celebrate a Victorian Christmas in a Victorian castle with lots of candles.
Rub the saw blade with soap it helps prevent jamming!
Ooh, wrapping the potatoe in clay and then bake it reminds me of delicious "beggar's chicken" I enjoyed in Hong Kong (before some things went wrong); but in former times also in Europe hedgehogs were prepared that way in order to remove the stings.
Hedgehogs?
@@oldschool8432 Yes, regular (= poor) people had no big choice if they wanted a wholesome meal and hunting (or collecting wood) was not allowed to ordinary people in medieval times...
Potato, not potatoe.
Baked potato with lots of butter cooked outside really tasty
.nobody taught me to cook or sew so therefore I just push a button. When I got married again nobody taught me others did it for me but when I became a military I learned to make a meal eatable that's all. I couldn't make a decent cake or brownies from a box. My daughter can sew draw cook and she was taught to sew do . Her daddy's mother taught her to also draw paint her cooking will do. Well to do family don't. Take the time with their children. This video is teaching me some things. I love watching this how they lived in that time. Education video.