I'm kind of amazed by the fact I never really thought about this aspect of WWII. I was taught plenty about the obvious parts - the holocaust, battle fronts, the Blitz, attempts to assassinate Hitler, the impact on women's liberation and other movements... But I never thought about what huge effects the war had on agriculture and rural societies. So this is a really interesting take.
Just yesterday I watched Ruth and Peter building a castle, milking sheeps and lighting fire with flints in Tudor era, now they're cutting woods to fight the Nazi in WW2. Time travelling has been rough for them.
There are several series with these guys. On this channel they seem to arrive a little haphazardly ! 😆 The original BBC series (on youtube), are ; Constructing a french chateau. Tudor monastery farm. Victorian farm. Victorian pharmacy. Edwardian farm. Wartime farm. Christmas specials....
When she's not outright smiling in happiness she has look of fascinated concentration and absorption; I envy how engaged she is in whatever business is at hand. She never holds anything back. Peter and Alex, while I like them, always seem to have the attitude that they're just a couple of amateur punters giving it their best try and hoping for the best.
I loves these series. I learn so much, but it's entertaining as well. Ruth, Peter and Alex are such a wonderful team and work together like a family! Enthusiastic and eager not only to learn, but more than ready to experience using the tools available. They all seem to really enjoy themselves while getting the skills they need in order to accomplish goals that were vital in the past. Many of the crafts and skills are almost lost to us today. It's such a nice touch that Ruth's daughter, Eve and her dad joined in the adventure.
She had me laughing when you could hear her yees when she was told timber & Eve could be heard just as loud&then their stereo laugh!&the announcer's mumble in background
the need to shout "timber" sort of indicates a certain scale of your work and working with big and slightly dangerous stuff rather appeals to ruth, i think xD
40:44 in case you missed it, one of the most famous female ambulance drivers during WWII was the future Queen Elizabeth. She remains the only female member of the royal family to have served in the armed forces. What an inspiration.
i swear that in the t.v. release, that section featured a short vignette featuring Elizabeth during her time in the A.F. Must be attributing it from other video i've watched though.
Yes, the sound got awful then, I redid it but still couldn't make it out. However, I know Princess Elizabeth did that and so it must have mentioned her. She was born in 1926 so just a teenager at that time. I remember seeing "The King's Speech" with the outbreak of the war and she's just a girl.
Of course even CC cut off but her service was mentioned when she surprised the Saudi leader by getting in the driver's seat for a tour-ha ha Google it-joy!Many royals served-P Philip-39-52-andrew&dwn to Harry
There is much to admire about that lady. My Grannie drove an ambulance during the war as well. Just a little thing, she was...It must have been WW1 as I am 65 and she was 40 when she had my mom
Future historian "A hundred years ago, In the year 2020, the arrival of a Global Pandemic started changing the face of shopping, continuing and accelerating the change from the Brick and Mortar stores of the 20th century, to the online shopping and pickup options available in the 21st Century. The trials of the Global Pandemic led to the improvement of delivery methods, and the implementation of Car side pickup methods, especially for essentials like groceries and the ever controversial toilet paper."
10:28 _"If you can also shout 'TIMBER' when it goes..."_ 10:34 RG: _"YESSSS!"_ I ❤Ruth - it's like she's been waiting a lifetime to chop down a tree and yell "TIMBER" (who among us hasn't?) and finally has the chance, but she gets that excited over almost any new task and accomplishment. And she'll try anything once.
I've really been enjoying the Wartime Farm series, as well as the Victorian and Edwardian farm series. As an American, it's interesting for me to see how Britain struggled through five years of war, and I'm amazed at their resourcefulness during such a challenging time in their history. It's just a miracle that the British people didn't starve, with the country's relatively small size and difficulty in importing foods during the war. The US was affected by the war too, although things were a bit different here in some respects. Although our country was bigger and could produce more food, certain items were still rationed, like butter, sugar, eggs, tea and coffee, along with gasoline, and less essential items like nylon stockings. Americans were encouraged to grow "Victory Gardens" for vegetables in any available spaces. Major cities on the coasts had blackout orders and air raid drills, though thankfully, we never had to actually put those drills into practice. We also weren't involved in the war in Europe as long as the Brits were -- we were trying to stay neutral until the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941 made that impossible, and we soon found ourselves fighting a two-front war, because soon after we declared war on Japan, Germany, Japan's ally, soon declared war on us. WW2 was a very rough time for a lot of people on both sides of the Atlantic!
In the 1960s I had the pleasure as a 15yr old to work with draught horses at Higher farm Up Mudford in Somerset :-) Pc Plod (May) decided to try and have me held to account for being underage on the road! Ron Dening, the farmer quickly put him in his place! :-) Many thanks to all the staff at Higher Farm and especially to Mike Fuller the farms Horseman, who taught me the way of handling these fine animals! And to lay a hedge, dig a ditch (by hand), amongst many other Somerset farm tasks! :-)
It is very annoying, they cut to the narrator and then drown him out with period appropriate background music. Where is the quality control of these documentaries?
To everyone mentioning the music being too loud the Absolute History channel is working on reuploading these videos for the viewers so it's mixed better and the levels are quieter when the narrator talks, it'll be fixed shortly just be patient :)
@@IonIsFalling7217 I appreciate the work and effort going into these documentaries. I do wish there was no music though. It's not needed, very distracting, and you miss a substantial amount of good quality and useful information. Especially in my case where I'm living off grid and trying to be as self sustainable as possible.
I remember my mother telling us kids a lot about things from the war. Now they make more sense. My goodness, we had it easy in Canada during the war. Things were not nearly as stringent on our farms. You could trade food stamp for things we wanted more of, for things we produced, ie butter, milk, eggs, for sugar, flour, textiles from people who had a willing to trade their allowed quota. Now I realize Dad had a blacksmith shop that he was quite capable with.
I feel blessed that my children hear firsthand, from my gran, what it was like. When they fuss about what's for dinner or other such things, I say Gran tell them about... At the dinner table we are 4 generations.
Mad respect to the women in WW2 who did this using only hand saws and axes. Cutting down a tree, limbing, and bucking it is hard enough with a chainsaw. I used to be a skiddie (someone that limbs, measures and cuts trees), these days most work is done by machines, it's not as fun though in my opinion.
If it’s impossible to fix the audio, maybe just upload the correct captions and allow us to read the handful of words that are impossible to decipher even after rewinding 4 times and listening super closely!
You have to sack your sound mixer. So bad. I saw that you are going to try and correct the problem. Good luck guys. Looking forward to it. Cheers from your biggest fan
this is fantastic! there is a show "mountain men" the one person ,(in the state of North Carolina (USA) uses wood gas to fuel his truck . Same concept ..I just put up with the audio it's fine ..it can be ignored because the content is great.
Throughout all these series (Green Valley, Victorian, Edwardian) I’ve enjoyed the mix of nature, livestock, carpentry & cooking. This is the first series where the lack of working in nature & with the seasons has impacted me. This series is mostly about machinery & noise! What a change from past eras.
They need to hop across the pond and do 1920's american farm and peter has to start a bootlegging and speakeasy racket so he can keep his need to drink in check :p
@@Lostinhistory12 My mother's family were sharecroppers. That might be a bit much to ask even of this hardy team. People died. It's basically slavery minus the outright violence. Their huts were often unheated, without floors, or anything in the windows, tar paper shacks... it wasn't just poverty. It was forced labor poverty with a system that guaranteed the longer you worked, the more you owed. Dragging 100+ bags of cotton bolls through the fields. Kids who never went to school, or went to school only when they weren't working. Malnutrition was common. I wouldn't wish that on these lovely folks.
Alex emerges from a coalmine, and greets Peter looking pristine, and Peter, who's been on the surface (albeit in blacksmith shop) the whole time, is covered in black. LOL
Peter grew up-avery short time in Germany-(some US post said)&didnt call soldiers'Yanks'- but Americans&'they' respectfully stayed in line on farm roads
Okay I have to admit I'm absolutely hooked on absolute history 😆 LOL. But seriously I really am hooked on these shows I have learned so much watching these videos they are a treat to watch. Thank you guys for uploading these videos please put more on UA-cam?
This is just scraping the tip of the iceberg. Only people like my 92 year old father knows the true hardship of WW2. My country Norway was like many, invaded by the nazis. They took some 90 % of the food, your pots and pans, your radio, your car, your school, your house... Dad worked for the local grocer when he was 13. He drove the old delivery van to a nearby prison camp, 3 times a week. With food for the nazi guards. When the food was being delivered, carried in by the half starved russian war prisoners, dad would also hand over 2 days worth of stale bread, and other "surplus" food, nicked out of the nazi rations, to the prisoners. The camp capo knew about this, and would hold indoor briefings with his staff while the food delivery happened. Thus my father avoided being shot, and lived to tell...
When plowing a virgin piece of land, you take a few tens or hundreds of pounds of top soil from a high-yielding, disease-free field and spread across the new field. You are actually then transplanting the microbiological flora, containing good soil bacterias that help increase the yield of the new field considerably.
Back in my hometown Delta Colorado in the United States of America. In the 1960's our town Delta Colorado grew Sugar Beets, when the train passed by we would wait for Sugar Beets to fall off of it. We would pick them up off the ground and eat them 🥰
Oh I love this series, but I just wish the background music they play during transition screens, stayed in the background. We cannot hear any of the dialogue during that time. That said WE ARE ADDICTED~~~~ cant stop watching this series~~ love it love it love it
The situation at about 18:40 is where you need to do what is called "hilling". Make a ridge along the long way that will give you a high point that will stay above the water and be dry for your plants.
seeing them doing those jobs looks like a holiday camp. Sometimes i hear myself thinking "hey i'd love to do that!" but reality must have been very very harsh!
I loved seeing the boys try to teach the calves to drink from a bucket. Growing up with and still owning dairy cattle its something I've done countless times. It can really be a frustrating job at times.
ruth was born to sit behind the wheel of that coal powered ambulance beast. just look at her
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Whoever does the editing on these shows should be fired because the music is too loud when the narrator is trying to explain something you can't hear it
I wonder how many young men came home after the war just to find out their family farm had been taken? like I said before no one will ever know the truth!
The government just took their farms ? I know they would take their horses or other things they needed for the war effort . I didn't think they would steal peoples property especially after they were literally willing to die for their country . That makes me sad and angry at the same time
A suggestion for you to research: The "rubber soldiers" in the Brazilian Amazon working in nearly slave conditions to supply rubber to the allies, the desejasse and the destitute left after the war. A good beginning to understand the threat to the Amazon today.
I absolutely love these series of documentaries in a mini series style, but please make sure someone is reviewing the sound before posting, otherwise you get *this* at 34:45 -- an unintelligible mix of upbeat music in the front, heavy machinery in the middle, and in the back a very quiet voiceover narration that is barely audible.
I think when Queen Elizabeth joined the army and visibly taking an active roll in the war effort, that went a long way to inspiring girls to join and pitch in. I know attitude back then, wasn't so much the entitled, selfish society we are familiar with now. The Brits did implement massive plans to manage production of food, factories, et al. Don't kill Shorty!!
The sewers and landfills tend to accumulate methane gas, I wonder if they ever thought to get an air compressor to store it into tanks. Sawdust could have been combined with sewer sludge, compressed into pellets dried and burned in coal plants.
Land girls might have been underappraciated in the years after. There was a series on Netflix that was very good. Not sure how accurate it was but it looked plausible
The way the British government treated its farmers is appalling when one considers how few people understand exactly how incredibly hard they worked with penalties of loosing their farm and going to jail as options for not doing the government’s bidding. Thank goodness for this documentary that shows absolute resolve of the great people of Britain to take the Nazis to task and bring freedom to France, Poland, Italy and the world. As an American I can’t believe that we weren’t taught this incredible element of the war.
I'm kind of amazed by the fact I never really thought about this aspect of WWII. I was taught plenty about the obvious parts - the holocaust, battle fronts, the Blitz, attempts to assassinate Hitler, the impact on women's liberation and other movements... But I never thought about what huge effects the war had on agriculture and rural societies. So this is a really interesting take.
Just yesterday I watched Ruth and Peter building a castle, milking sheeps and lighting fire with flints in Tudor era, now they're cutting woods to fight the Nazi in WW2. Time travelling has been rough for them.
There are several series with these guys. On this channel they seem to arrive a little haphazardly ! 😆
The original BBC series (on youtube), are ;
Constructing a french chateau.
Tudor monastery farm.
Victorian farm.
Victorian pharmacy.
Edwardian farm.
Wartime farm.
Christmas specials....
Comment-'puurfect'
@@ninaelsbethgustavsen2131 Where does Tales from the Green Valley come in this sequence?
@@mackenziedrake probably between tudor monastery & victorian farm. it’s set during the stuart’s era...1620s. can’t wait to watch.
All of these shows are stupid old and were originally produced by the BBC
Nothing makes me as happy as seeing Ruth having a little family reunion in these videos
Ruth's enthusiasm over shouting "timber!" cured my depression.
10:34- for anyone who needs it
That and her enthusiasm too.
Awww her laugh fills the forest... I wanna hang out with her...
Ruth's enthusiasm is enough to save a life...
The problem with this show is that the music becomes loud when statistics are being announced. I can't hear them.
oh my goodness yes its so annoying, the balance between the loudness of the narrator and the music is way off sometimes
mute and use closed caption get about every fifth word wrong. the music is so overbearing.
Yeah there's some audio balance episodes for sure. And it's not captioned. The UA-cam autocraptions don't do the job.
Heck, I can't hear ANYTHING over the music
I scrolled down to the comments to see who else thought the music was too loud and wasn't disappointed.
I love how Alex, Peter and Ruth are so gentle with the farm animals 😍
ruth is my favorite part of all these videos! her happiness makes me so happy 🥰
Root it chav
Idk Henry(the dog)might be the best part
She just out here living her best former life
try to be like her
When she's not outright smiling in happiness she has look of fascinated concentration and absorption; I envy how engaged she is in whatever business is at hand. She never holds anything back. Peter and Alex, while I like them, always seem to have the attitude that they're just a couple of amateur punters giving it their best try and hoping for the best.
I loves these series. I learn so much, but it's entertaining as well. Ruth, Peter and Alex are such a wonderful team and work together like a family! Enthusiastic and eager not only to learn, but more than ready to experience using the tools available. They all seem to really enjoy themselves while getting the skills they need in order to accomplish goals that were vital in the past. Many of the crafts and skills are almost lost to us today. It's such a nice touch that Ruth's daughter, Eve and her dad joined in the adventure.
Lol, when Ruth learned she had to yell timber and exclaimed "YES!" Makes me think she's always wanted to do that
I thought she was about to run off and touch herself...
She's a lumberjane and she's all right
She had me laughing when you could hear her yees when she was told timber & Eve could be heard just as loud&then their stereo laugh!&the announcer's mumble in background
the need to shout "timber" sort of indicates a certain scale of your work and working with big and slightly dangerous stuff rather appeals to ruth, i think xD
Throughout all of the different series’ featuring Ruth, I am always so impressed by her knowledge, strength, and tenacity. She never disappoints 😮.
40:44 in case you missed it, one of the most famous female ambulance drivers during WWII was the future Queen Elizabeth. She remains the only female member of the royal family to have served in the armed forces. What an inspiration.
i swear that in the t.v. release, that section featured a short vignette featuring Elizabeth during her time in the A.F. Must be attributing it from other video i've watched though.
@@maxdecphoenix i remember that too
Yes, the sound got awful then, I redid it but still couldn't make it out. However, I know Princess Elizabeth did that and so it must have mentioned her. She was born in 1926 so just a teenager at that time. I remember seeing "The King's Speech" with the outbreak of the war and she's just a girl.
Of course even CC cut off but her service was mentioned when she surprised the Saudi leader by getting in the driver's seat for a tour-ha ha Google it-joy!Many royals served-P Philip-39-52-andrew&dwn to Harry
There is much to admire about that lady. My Grannie drove an ambulance during the war as well. Just a little thing, she was...It must have been WW1 as I am 65 and she was 40 when she had my mom
British cooking summarized by Ruth "this is quite edible" :D
A few decades from now they’ll do “living during the coronavirus pandemic” and they’ll have to deal with shortages of toilet paper and relying on uber
Your comment is hilarious !!
😂😂😂😂
Too horrifical to re-live.
Future historian "A hundred years ago, In the year 2020, the arrival of a Global Pandemic started changing the face of shopping, continuing and accelerating the change from the Brick and Mortar stores of the 20th century, to the online shopping and pickup options available in the 21st Century. The trials of the Global Pandemic led to the improvement of delivery methods, and the implementation of Car side pickup methods, especially for essentials like groceries and the ever controversial toilet paper."
Few decades from now everyone is doing whatever centralized government as imagined by world economic forum tells them to do.
10:28 _"If you can also shout 'TIMBER' when it goes..."_
10:34 RG: _"YESSSS!"_ I ❤Ruth - it's like she's been waiting a lifetime to chop down a tree and yell "TIMBER" (who among us hasn't?) and finally has the chance, but she gets that excited over almost any new task and accomplishment. And she'll try anything once.
I've really been enjoying the Wartime Farm series, as well as the Victorian and Edwardian farm series. As an American, it's interesting for me to see how Britain struggled through five years of war, and I'm amazed at their resourcefulness during such a challenging time in their history. It's just a miracle that the British people didn't starve, with the country's relatively small size and difficulty in importing foods during the war. The US was affected by the war too, although things were a bit different here in some respects. Although our country was bigger and could produce more food, certain items were still rationed, like butter, sugar, eggs, tea and coffee, along with gasoline, and less essential items like nylon stockings. Americans were encouraged to grow "Victory Gardens" for vegetables in any available spaces. Major cities on the coasts had blackout orders and air raid drills, though thankfully, we never had to actually put those drills into practice. We also weren't involved in the war in Europe as long as the Brits were -- we were trying to stay neutral until the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941 made that impossible, and we soon found ourselves fighting a two-front war, because soon after we declared war on Japan, Germany, Japan's ally, soon declared war on us. WW2 was a very rough time for a lot of people on both sides of the Atlantic!
That laugh when they've felled a tree all on their lonesome is just so adorably genuine. ^^
In the 1960s I had the pleasure as a 15yr old to work with draught horses at Higher farm Up Mudford in Somerset :-) Pc Plod (May) decided to try and have me held to account for being underage on the road! Ron Dening, the farmer quickly put him in his place! :-) Many thanks to all the staff at Higher Farm and especially to Mike Fuller the farms Horseman, who taught me the way of handling these fine animals! And to lay a hedge, dig a ditch (by hand), amongst many other Somerset farm tasks! :-)
I live in northern British Columbia, Canada and I used to work as a tree faller and bucker. The lumber Jills are my kind of ladies! 😊👌
I love these series. It’s just a shame that the background noise and music drown out the narrator half the time :(
You are more than right !!
It is very annoying, they cut to the narrator and then drown him out with period appropriate background music. Where is the quality control of these documentaries?
@@markfryer9880they're re-uploads of re-uploads
These Shows are Mighty.
WHAT? DID YOU SAY SOMETHING? CAN'T HEAR YOU OVER THIS LOUD MUSIC?!?
To everyone mentioning the music being too loud the Absolute History channel is working on reuploading these videos for the viewers so it's mixed better and the levels are quieter when the narrator talks, it'll be fixed shortly just be patient :)
Right? Like they're providing these difficult-to-find documentaries for FREE. Some gratitude is appriciated.
@@IonIsFalling7217 I appreciate the work and effort going into these documentaries. I do wish there was no music though. It's not needed, very distracting, and you miss a substantial amount of good quality and useful information. Especially in my case where I'm living off grid and trying to be as self sustainable as possible.
Going on eight months.
That's great news, any updates on this?
In sep 2021 it’s still not fixed
Ruth can fit into any very era easily.
I remember my mother telling us kids a lot about things from the war. Now they make more sense.
My goodness, we had it easy in Canada during the war. Things were not nearly as stringent on our farms. You could trade food stamp for things we wanted more of, for things we produced, ie butter, milk, eggs, for sugar, flour, textiles from people who had a willing to trade their allowed quota.
Now I realize Dad had a blacksmith shop that he was quite capable with.
I feel blessed that my children hear firsthand, from my gran, what it was like. When they fuss about what's for dinner or other such things, I say Gran tell them about... At the dinner table we are 4 generations.
Really cool seeing your dad on the show Ruth great job guys as usual
Ruth is vibing
Ruth is a delight. You know she has wanted to say "Timber!" Her entire life
She is a hag
@@ronaldschultenover8137 and how are you doing in the meantime? are you still an ogre, or have you evolved?
10:34 Honestly Ruth gives me life.
Great show as always, fantastic series.
Awwww the baby cows are sooo adorable!!!
Mad respect to the women in WW2 who did this using only hand saws and axes.
Cutting down a tree, limbing, and bucking it is hard enough with a chainsaw. I used to be a skiddie (someone that limbs, measures and cuts trees), these days most work is done by machines, it's not as fun though in my opinion.
“Oh this ones got teeth Peter!” 🤣
If it’s impossible to fix the audio, maybe just upload the correct captions and allow us to read the handful of words that are impossible to decipher even after rewinding 4 times and listening super closely!
26:15 Again, the music is so loud we can't hear commentary. 👎👎👎
People: The trusty tractor
Subtitle: The rusty tractor
Appearance: A rusty tractor
Me: Looks like someone got something right for once.
A rustic actor, dummy.
Makes sense to me. if its all rusty and old, yet functioning as it should in spite of it's heavy usage then that *is* one trusty tractor.
You have to sack your sound mixer. So bad. I saw that you are going to try and correct the problem. Good luck guys. Looking forward to it. Cheers from your biggest fan
A Lumberjill! Amazing.
Imagine getting conscripted 3 years after the war actually ended and still being forced to mine coal.
My mother used to say... "dirty dishes means you had something to eat."
this is fantastic! there is a show "mountain men" the one person ,(in the state of North Carolina (USA) uses wood gas to fuel his truck . Same concept ..I just put up with the audio it's fine ..it can be ignored because the content is great.
North Carolina man is Eustace. Him and the neighbor are amazing at doing everything while wasting nothing they use. Original living a green lifestyle.
Alex talks more than actually working. Lmaoo. Peter is always in the background working hard
I love these programs but i wish they wouldn’t play the background music so loud over the narrater
I think that there should have been a decoration... A kind of medall for the women, who did their work to keep theyre country alive.
This just goes to show how creative and resourceful people can be. Even an EMP attack won't keep us down. We will figure it out. Love this!!!
10:30 Ruth is so eager to shout: ''Timber!''
The sound mixing on all of these videos leaves something to be desired.
It's incredible, how many people have to comment on how many videos before you get the commentary sound right?? Nobody review before posting?
I do so love these, but man... I wish whoever was doing the editing paid closer attention to the clip / music volume versus the narrator.
It's stunning to see how well planned the British war effort was.
Throughout all these series (Green Valley, Victorian, Edwardian) I’ve enjoyed the mix of nature, livestock, carpentry & cooking. This is the first series where the lack of working in nature & with the seasons has impacted me. This series is mostly about machinery & noise! What a change from past eras.
They need to hop across the pond and do 1920's american farm and peter has to start a bootlegging and speakeasy racket so he can keep his need to drink in check :p
It would be interesting to see what sharecroppers were up to at the same time
Last episode they can pretend to be Okies on the move. Travel from the Dust Bowl out to the west coast somewhere.
I would pay for that one
@@Lostinhistory12 My mother's family were sharecroppers. That might be a bit much to ask even of this hardy team. People died. It's basically slavery minus the outright violence. Their huts were often unheated, without floors, or anything in the windows, tar paper shacks... it wasn't just poverty. It was forced labor poverty with a system that guaranteed the longer you worked, the more you owed. Dragging 100+ bags of cotton bolls through the fields. Kids who never went to school, or went to school only when they weren't working. Malnutrition was common. I wouldn't wish that on these lovely folks.
That would be awesome!
Alex emerges from a coalmine, and greets Peter looking pristine, and Peter, who's been on the surface (albeit in blacksmith shop) the whole time, is covered in black. LOL
Peter seems really extra quiet and somber in this series as apposed to the other few historical farm series I’ve seen him in.
Peter grew up-avery short time in Germany-(some US post said)&didnt call soldiers'Yanks'- but Americans&'they' respectfully stayed in line on farm roads
It's a somber era and I'm sure it weighed more heavily on his mind than other "Farm" series.
God, those calves are adorable!
Okay I have to admit I'm absolutely hooked on absolute history 😆 LOL. But seriously I really am hooked on these shows I have learned so much watching these videos they are a treat to watch. Thank you guys for uploading these videos please put more on UA-cam?
This is great insight into how it was during the war. I had no idea it was so hard.
This is just scraping the tip of the iceberg.
Only people like my 92 year old father knows the true hardship of WW2.
My country Norway was like many, invaded by the nazis. They took some 90 % of the food, your pots and pans, your radio, your car, your school, your house...
Dad worked for the local grocer when he was 13.
He drove the old delivery van to a nearby prison camp, 3 times a week. With food for the nazi guards.
When the food was being delivered, carried in by the half starved russian war prisoners, dad would also hand over 2 days worth of stale bread, and other "surplus" food, nicked out of the nazi rations, to the prisoners.
The camp capo knew about this, and would hold indoor briefings with his staff while the food delivery happened.
Thus my father avoided being shot, and lived to tell...
Don't worry, it'll be this hard again if the West doesn't stop sleepwalking into a communist and/or totalitarian dystopia.
@@bpj1805 DBM -- I voted for Trump.
When plowing a virgin piece of land, you take a few tens or hundreds of pounds of top soil from a high-yielding, disease-free field and spread across the new field. You are actually then transplanting the microbiological flora, containing good soil bacterias that help increase the yield of the new field considerably.
Who thatches the roofs we see in the background? Watching that done would be an interesting video.
great show, alot of great information although i call bs on the welder
Please lower the music volume! 🙏🏽
Back in my hometown Delta Colorado in the United States of America. In the 1960's our town Delta Colorado grew Sugar Beets, when the train passed by we would wait for Sugar Beets to fall off of it. We would pick them up off the ground and eat them 🥰
Can we have more of these kinds of shows ? I just about done with the others they do as well.
Oh I love this series, but I just wish the background music they play during transition screens, stayed in the background. We cannot hear any of the dialogue during that time.
That said WE ARE ADDICTED~~~~ cant stop watching this series~~ love it love it love it
The situation at about 18:40 is where you need to do what is called "hilling". Make a ridge along the long way that will give you a high point that will stay above the water and be dry for your plants.
seeing them doing those jobs looks like a holiday camp. Sometimes i hear myself thinking "hey i'd love to do that!" but reality must have been very very harsh!
I absolutely love this channel. I'm not British. But from what I remember of American history this really isn't much different
I loved seeing the boys try to teach the calves to drink from a bucket. Growing up with and still owning dairy cattle its something I've done countless times. It can really be a frustrating job at times.
ruth was born to sit behind the wheel of that coal powered ambulance beast. just look at her
Whoever does the editing on these shows should be fired because the music is too loud when the narrator is trying to explain something you can't hear it
I saw this one it was on TV and it wasn’t less loud, I think it’s an issue with UA-cam and not the actual show
That bind was well good!
Ruth’s dad is adorable!!! I love him!
Wow, am I learning things. So educational.
Great series !
I wonder how many young men came home after the war just to find out their family farm had been taken? like I said before no one will ever know the truth!
The government just took their farms ? I know they would take their horses or other things they needed for the war effort . I didn't think they would steal peoples property especially after they were literally willing to die for their country . That makes me sad and angry at the same time
Thank you
The narrator: The team must learn how to cope with shortages...
UA-cam: And we have to learn how to cope with not being able to hear the narrator
A suggestion for you to research: The "rubber soldiers" in the Brazilian Amazon working in nearly slave conditions to supply rubber to the allies, the desejasse and the destitute left after the war. A good beginning to understand the threat to the Amazon today.
What a great post-reading about that sounds interesting but sad
I like this series but some of the music and sounds are louder than narration and talking. It's hard to hear.
The music is great and everything, but you can’t hear the narrator with how loud it is. 🙉
I wanted to write the same
Outstanding series and channel, but if you could sort of mute the music so that dialogue is easily heard above it, that would be fabulous.
The track sound levels are out of balance. I've heard them in balance on other YT channels. I love this series, but this is a problem.
@Robby Dey Good to know. The video is certainly cleaner.
@Robby Dey well, that's good.
32:24
I was not emotionally prepared for seeing whole boiled onions. Yeesh.
I absolutely love these series of documentaries in a mini series style, but please make sure someone is reviewing the sound before posting, otherwise you get *this* at 34:45 -- an unintelligible mix of upbeat music in the front, heavy machinery in the middle, and in the back a very quiet voiceover narration that is barely audible.
Agree with Kelly PBR. I'd like to hear the dialog. Need to calm down the the music a bit.
I think when Queen Elizabeth joined the army and visibly taking an active roll in the war effort, that went a long way to inspiring girls to join and pitch in. I know attitude back then, wasn't so much the entitled, selfish society we are familiar with now.
The Brits did implement massive plans to manage production of food, factories, et al.
Don't kill Shorty!!
impressed wit the scrap land uses!
King George VI was the ruling monarch at the time though. Elizabeth didn't reign until 1952 when she was only 19.
What a beautiful horse.
God working in a small space in a mine like that is my worst nightmare. 30:55
Makes me sick just looking at that
Sameeeeee! And knowing all that weight is above you and the exit is far 🤢🤢🤢😭😭😭😭
.THank you.
The sewers and landfills tend to accumulate methane gas, I wonder if they ever thought to get an air compressor to store it into tanks. Sawdust could have been combined with sewer sludge, compressed into pellets dried and burned in coal plants.
Jeez wow that's clever!
I lived through it......And this is how it was..........
Wait, was that the fabled spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, eggs, bacon and spam?
And the Philippines,Ha.&guam still buy the most-😊
I don't like spam!
Yes. The sketch was actually meant to highlight the surplus of Spam after the war, and how the public was encouraged to eat it!
I wonder why some episodes have the audio messed up but some don’t it’s so weird .__.
It’s hard to imagine eating something with a name that comes when you call it
Don't name things you're going to eat one day.
@@bpj1805 my kids named the cows..... mince, steak, roast ... that way they didn’t feel sad eating them
It's hard to do, unless it's a mean critter, but if you need to eat, you need to eat.
Coal fired truck.. awesome. (If you could bottle Ruth's laugh.. ud go faster than a jet.)
sound is slightly better but still louder then narrator and only half watch able :(
Ernie Wise, of Morecambe and Wise, was one of the Bevin Boys miners.
i love ruth her and her daughter so happy to yell TIMERRRR. How fun was it for you Alex and Peter to use that tractor ... oh i forgot Hi Peter
@4:10 "well, if a land-girl can start it, then maybe even WE can start it" ... XD such appraisal!
Land girls might have been underappraciated in the years after. There was a series on Netflix that was very good. Not sure how accurate it was but it looked plausible
The way the British government treated its farmers is appalling when one considers how few people understand exactly how incredibly hard they worked with penalties of loosing their farm and going to jail as options for not doing the government’s bidding. Thank goodness for this documentary that shows absolute resolve of the great people of Britain to take the Nazis to task and bring freedom to France, Poland, Italy and the world. As an American I can’t believe that we weren’t taught this incredible element of the war.
The Trusty tractor reminds me of the Troy built in the U.S except smaller for gardens rather than for fields also a “no seater” or walk behind 😊