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This woman is truly remarkable. As a historian with extraordinary storytelling skills, she weaves tales of humanity that are utterly captivating. I was utterly absorbed by her work in 'Tudor, Edwardian, Victorian, and Wartime Farm.' When she speaks, time seems to stand still; you find yourself drawn in, forgetting everything else around you. It's like settling down by the fire with a warm blanket and a steaming cup of tea, completely lost in her enchanting narratives. I do hope she graces us with more living history stories. I could listen to her for hours on end, wrapped in the comfort of her words.
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@honeygarden2222 What a great comment about this video with Ruth Goodman! I agree 100% with everything you said!! Ruth’s videos are totally captivating from beginning to end!!
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My first house in the late 70s had no hot water system & a toilet in a brick outhouse. At night I took a bucket upstairs. I used a tin bath in the kitchen & heated water in a gas fired wash boiler. I wasn't unique.
Once had to do a whole house re-pipe, no hot water for over 2 weeks. Used an electric kettle or heated water on the stove and did the standing wash. In part, wanted to see if I could do it. Many people worldwide still lack hot running water
@pattyamato8758 I had to go without hot water for a couple of weeks, too. It's not that bad. You suffer the first 3 days, and then you get used to it. Lol 😆
I grew up in the suburb of a city in France. We didn't use a basin and ewer as the flat had hot and cold running water but washed bit by bit in the handbasin in the bathroom and had a bath once a week.
OMG!! RUTH!! Where have you BEEN, woman?!? Haven't seen you since the farm shows!! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 So glad to see you again! Please do more farm shows, pleeeeease? We here in the USA really need as much peaceful, enjoyable education as we can get, especially lately.
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Yes, as much Ruth Goodman as possible please. And go back and watch the Farm series (Tudor Monastery Farm, Victorian Farm, Edwardian Farm, and my favorite, Wartime Farm.
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Life is hard…… but Dr Ruth Goodman gives me a bit of escapism….. A return to my safe , secure and warm childhood with my Edwardian Great Grandmother and Georgian Grandmother. I grew up in the 1980’s, but I had a very Victorian experience. My great aunt, my grandmother’s sister, always called me ‘the last living Victorian’ .
Love the Sir Terry Pratchett quote! We used to wash just as he said! Our cottage had no running water or sewerage when I was born (1953) . I was born in that cottage too!!😊
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I absolutely loved this video. Ruth would certainly be one of my 'which famous person would you invite to your dinner party' guests. I find her totally captivating.
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The not stripping fully makes sense when you're washing yourself in a house where the water can freeze overnight. Even if it's like a somewhat more modern time way of heating a house in the countryside, you're gonna need warm slippers and blankets, fully clothed, before you get the heater fire going. And that was about +14 degrees Celsius, often.
The genuine enthusiasm with which she talks about it, I love it. Add to it, a very raw video with no music, just added historical photos, this is a great video.
Thank you, Ruth! I have had to explain to my own countrymen and women why my country, Ireland, has so many large grain stores built between 1780 and 1840. We exported grain to feed industrialising England, Wales and Scotland. We were able to do this because we mostly ate potatoes, permitting us to export the grain crop.
Well, less permitting us to export grain and more like we had no choice... We didn't exactly rely on potatoes as the main staple crop for nourishment because we volunteered to export everything else 😅 It's interesting that you've found a lot of people who don't know why there's so many large storehouses around the country. I suppose we're taught about that period in a very fragmented way - I'm learning more about it all the time, like how fields with the name "bully" are often linked to workhouses and famines. There's so many. It's great to have historians like Ruth who can give life to how various sections of history lived, glad to see her back with some new presentations.
I can't get enough of Ruth Goodman. I absolutely love her as a storyteller, and admire her profound knowledge and capacity for hard labor when she reenacts the whole business of everyday life in the past. I'm currently reading her book: "How To Behave Badly In Elizabethan England". I highly recommend it❤
I could listen to Ruth Goodman all day and night! She describes everything in such vivid detail - and with such enthusiasm - it’s as if the people of the era she’s discussing have come to life and are standing before me. Hers is a truly rare gift - and one much appreciated in these quarters!!!
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I'm 69 and grew up just south of Birmingham. Much of what described on food and hygiene hung on into the 50's and 60's.. a bath was an innovation that my father fitted when we moved from central Brum. A bath was a weekly event. I remember a stand up wash. People would refer to it as a "rinse". When we first moved the toilet was reached from outside and freezing in winter. Each bed had a "po" under it to go to the toilet at night. Heating restricted to the living room. In winter you'd wake up to frost on the inside of bedroom windows. My grandfathers house was rented. It was a two up, one down of the dimensions in this video. My grandparents had 11 kids. A table dominated the living room with not much space around it. In the 50's the lighting was town gas and the heating and cooking done on a cast iron range. A tiny scullery with a Belfast sink leading to the cellar steps or "coal hole". Zinc bath hanging on the outside wall. Shared toilets with the neighbor's. A "brew house" where everyone heated up water to do the washing.. a central brick courtyard that everyones house opened on to. Very basic but a strong community with everyone pulling together...they had to. Potatoes were in the diet but bread dominated as the staple. Sandwiches, bread with your meal, often lots of it to soak up gravy and fill you.. Big changes began in the mid 60's. The slums were bulldozed and people moved out of the centre of town to tower blocks and estates.
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My great grandmother, even into the early 1920s wore several petticoats. Unbleached calico then red flannel etc. When my mum was little in the 1920s she recalled worrying that when she grew up she would forget the order. Gt grandma also wore drawers. Ie. 2 tubes of lace trimmed cotton joined at the top and having a drawstring through the top to fix in place. No gusset.
I also grew up washing in the morning but from when I was 18 months old in 1949 we lived in a lovely 3 bed brand new council house with a coke stove in the kitchen for heating the water. There also was an electric emersion heater in the tank that was used in summer. We kids all piled in the bath every evening. Hair was washed saturday nights to be clean for church on Sunday. My mum did as generations of women before her had done. She tucked her corset in the bed as she got up so it was warm to put on.
Mind you grandma down in London still only had cold water. But the warm water in the tin bath by the fire is still one of my memories of when we visited.
I was born and brought up in those conditions. It’s funny to think that this was commonplace in living memory. I also still sleep with the window open all night, can’t stand s stuffy hot atmosphere.
I'm so glad that this has been posted. I've been missing my fix of history from Ruth since her wonderful podcast finished. She's such a great presenter - knowledgeable, entertaining and she has a lovely way of speaking.
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Ruth Goodman, what a treasure! she is!, without doubt, the most honest presenter: deals in facts!. Whenever I start to watch 'history' or 'fact based' TV programs I cringe the moment fantasy appears in word or image, here we have Ruth talking about the real conditions of the working class, I love that!, I know how the WC washed, ate, dressed as I was one, yep the Victorian lifestyle hitched a ride into the 50s/60s and likely 70s * 80s for some poor souls.
I'm so delighted to see this lady again! I'm in her age group and she looks so healthy, so fresh compared to the corpse-like appearance we usually see these days. This Texan needs to memorize her name because I've enjoyed her in other videos here.
Beautiful house inside and outside with a beautiful garden around it. And Ruth looks great in this outfit, totally her colour. Want to see more of her daughters. Always get a kick out of Katherine being a Ruth clone!
I love this-so well put together! To share one of my favorite bits of Victoriana, from Random Shots from a Rifleman, Sir John Kincaid, 1835 "Who has not passed down Blackfriars-road of an evening? and who has not seen, in the vicinity of Rowland Hill's chapel, at least half a dozen gentlemen presiding each over his highly polished tin case, surmounted by variegated lamps, and singing out that most enchanting of all earthly melodies to an empty stomach, that has got a sixpence in its clothly casement, "hot, all hot!" The whole concern is not above the size of a drum, and, in place of dealing148 in its empty sounds, rejoices in mutton-pies, beef-steaks, and kidney-puddings, "hot, all hot!" If the gentlemen had but followed us to the wars, how they would have been worshipped in such a night, even without their lamps." The amount of buying prepared food is amazing. But for a working person, especially one who was single, who had limited access to cooking facilities, it was quite common.
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One error in that story about the canary: carbon dioxide is denser than air, so if the cage with the canary hangs high up in the four-poster bed the sleeping occupants would be dead long before the canary. Canaries were used in mines though to detect areas of lethal carbon dioxide concentration.
The coal mine canaries were for detecting odorless carbon monoxide. As I understand it, you don't know you aren't getting enough air with carbon monoxide.
Perhaps the print media of the day did not want to let facts get in the way of a nice sensationalist story! Carbon monoxide would have been more dangerous than carbon dioxide and the canaries with their higher breathing rate and metabolism and small size would succumb first.
This is very fascinating. It’s quite strange I was just folding some clean clothes & the thought of how my ancestors did things came into my head. Then I grabbed my phone & your video was just there. Subbed ❤
Oh thank you so much she was such a great storyteller I could listen to you for hours sending love from New Zealand originally from Wales I used to wash like that as a girl I was brought up in a pit house tiny rooms outside toilet no running hot water that ❤
I truly enjoy watching and learning from Ruth. She brings history to life with her passion for the subjects that she studies. I wish my children could have a history teacher like her.
I loved the Curious history of your home and was very disappointed when it ended. Please do some more episodes. Your narrative and presentation are above all most other podcasts
I could honestly listen to Ruth all day ❤. Last month I visited Edinburgh-and therefore Britain- for the very first time, and for the flight home I bought "How to be a Victorian" by Ruth Goodman. It was on my reading list for a good while and I absolutely love this book it's so interesting to see how people lived back then and how many things we generally get wrong about that time. I also needed to chuckle a bit about the food portion of this video... I am German and sometimes I find myself just eating bread for a few days in a row because I can't be bothered to cook or have nothing else in the house 🙈. Bread is so prominent in our Breakfast and "Abendbrot" - culture that I am sometimes just like "Welp let's eat it for lunch too I suppose". Of course this is not to compare with the poor quality of victorian bread, and WE luckily have cheese, sausage and butter with the bread, but it kinda gave me a little impression how monotonous the victorian diet of poor people. Just have been. Coincidentally one of my favourite comfort foods is also boiled or baked peeled Potato with some sourcream 😅. Kinda weird to voluntarily choosing eat like someone who simply HAD TO eat that way more then a 100 years ago.
You know, I would love to see Ruth Goodman address the needlework samplers of children's schools. Nicola Parkman from Hands Across the Sea Samplers has re-created a lot of samplers done by victorian schoolgirls. I would love to see a collaboration maybe? But I would be interested in the historian's view of what it was like for those girls making those samplers.
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I see Ruth Goodman, I click like.
@@authormichellefranklin we feel the same 🤝
Same here. She's one of those people who's a positive gift to the learning of history
Same 😊
Shes wonderful❤
Same
Ruth is a wonderful presenter. Love the format with no music, just talking and relevant historical photos and drawings.
seriously....the zero music is sooo appreciated here, too. I can't stand the loud and suspenseful nonsense that most history docs have now.
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A lot more Ruth please. More, more, more.
@@maggie8324 join us on the course for loads more Ruth!
She’s such a good teacher I could watch for hours
I love Ruth. She's like an old friend.
This woman is truly remarkable. As a historian with extraordinary storytelling skills, she weaves tales of humanity that are utterly captivating. I was utterly absorbed by her work in 'Tudor, Edwardian, Victorian, and Wartime Farm.' When she speaks, time seems to stand still; you find yourself drawn in, forgetting everything else around you. It's like settling down by the fire with a warm blanket and a steaming cup of tea, completely lost in her enchanting narratives. I do hope she graces us with more living history stories. I could listen to her for hours on end, wrapped in the comfort of her words.
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Yes! She's terrific. I'm currently reading her book: "How to Behave Badly In Elizabethan England". I highly recommend it.
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I really enjoyed those series ❤
@honeygarden2222 What a great comment about this video with Ruth Goodman! I agree 100% with everything you said!! Ruth’s videos are totally captivating from beginning to end!!
Love seeing Ruth again! We all need more Ruth in our life!
We've been Ruthless for far too long.
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lives*
I'm 73 years old and can remember using a basin and ewer for washing. We had a tin bath and had one bath a week on a Sunday evening.
We are coming back to those days )))
My first house in the late 70s had no hot water system & a toilet in a brick outhouse. At night I took a bucket upstairs. I used a tin bath in the kitchen & heated water in a gas fired wash boiler. I wasn't unique.
Once had to do a whole house re-pipe, no hot water for over 2 weeks. Used an electric kettle or heated water on the stove and did the standing wash. In part, wanted to see if I could do it. Many people worldwide still lack hot running water
@pattyamato8758 I had to go without hot water for a couple of weeks, too. It's not that bad. You suffer the first 3 days, and then you get used to it. Lol 😆
I grew up in the suburb of a city in France. We didn't use a basin and ewer as the flat had hot and cold running water but washed bit by bit in the handbasin in the bathroom and had a bath once a week.
Ruth Goodman quoting Sir Terry Pratchett is the best thing about my day today! PS Thrilled to see this is a series!
Absolutely
OMG!! RUTH!! Where have you BEEN, woman?!? Haven't seen you since the farm shows!! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 So glad to see you again! Please do more farm shows, pleeeeease? We here in the USA really need as much peaceful, enjoyable education as we can get, especially lately.
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💯 correct
Every time I get sick, I watch Ruth on one of her farm shows. Idk what it is, but between the music and the material, I feel like it'll all be OK.
I just love Ruth Goodman as a Historian! She gets down to the nitty gritty about all things historical.
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Absolutely love Ruth Goodman. She is the voice of the common people, the voice of those history wants to forget.
Yes, as much Ruth Goodman as possible please. And go back and watch the Farm series (Tudor Monastery Farm, Victorian Farm, Edwardian Farm, and my favorite, Wartime Farm.
Don't forget Tales From The Green Valley, which is the most magical of all.
@@7arboreal Hmm, haven't seen that. Thanks.
Edwardian is mine!
Oh my goodness they are ALL treasures to us
I already saw it and it's amazing!
I could listen to her read a phonebook. Fabulous storyteller.
Another vote for more Ruth. I listen to her books, and would watch almost anything she hosted
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Life is hard…… but Dr Ruth Goodman gives me a bit of escapism….. A return to my safe , secure and warm childhood with my Edwardian Great Grandmother and Georgian Grandmother. I grew up in the 1980’s, but I had a very Victorian experience. My great aunt, my grandmother’s sister, always called me ‘the last living Victorian’ .
I thought I couldn't like Ruth more, then she quoted Granny Weatherwax.
Perfect.
The layering of the clothes to stay warm is what you'll see among the homeless.
I love Ruth! I live in Yorkshire so I still layer up like a Victorian, and am not usually seen without two cardigans at once
So many historical things focus on the wealthy so it’s great to see the ordinary person
Love the Sir Terry Pratchett quote! We used to wash just as he said! Our cottage had no running water or sewerage when I was born (1953) . I was born in that cottage too!!😊
Ruth Goodman, the experts expert.
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Ruth is a national treasure❤
I absolutely loved this video. Ruth would certainly be one of my 'which famous person would you invite to your dinner party' guests. I find her totally captivating.
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I love Ruth Goodman. Watch everything she is in. She's wonderful.
Ruth Goodman is so comforting and nostalgic
The not stripping fully makes sense when you're washing yourself in a house where the water can freeze overnight.
Even if it's like a somewhat more modern time way of heating a house in the countryside, you're gonna need warm slippers and blankets, fully clothed, before you get the heater fire going. And that was about +14 degrees Celsius, often.
The genuine enthusiasm with which she talks about it, I love it. Add to it, a very raw video with no music, just added historical photos, this is a great video.
Thank you, Ruth! I have had to explain to my own countrymen and women why my country, Ireland, has so many large grain stores built between 1780 and 1840. We exported grain to feed industrialising England, Wales and Scotland. We were able to do this because we mostly ate potatoes, permitting us to export the grain crop.
Well, less permitting us to export grain and more like we had no choice...
We didn't exactly rely on potatoes as the main staple crop for nourishment because we volunteered to export everything else 😅
It's interesting that you've found a lot of people who don't know why there's so many large storehouses around the country. I suppose we're taught about that period in a very fragmented way - I'm learning more about it all the time, like how fields with the name "bully" are often linked to workhouses and famines. There's so many.
It's great to have historians like Ruth who can give life to how various sections of history lived, glad to see her back with some new presentations.
I have yet to see the land of my ancestors, thank you for sharing this information.
I can't get enough of Ruth Goodman. I absolutely love her as a storyteller, and admire her profound knowledge and capacity for hard labor when she reenacts the whole business of everyday life in the past.
I'm currently reading her book: "How To Behave Badly In Elizabethan England". I highly recommend it❤
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I liked the animation of the hot water steam, that was unnecessary but interesting that you included that 😂😂🤣
Always enjoy Ruth Goodman. Glad to see her. In Joy
I love Ruth Goodman. She is my favourite historian. She has really inspired me to look at the history of the things I love and the way I live.
Ruth Is my favorite time traveler!
I could listen to Ruth Goodman all day and night! She describes everything in such vivid detail - and with such enthusiasm - it’s as if the people of the era she’s discussing have come to life and are standing before me. Hers is a truly rare gift - and one much appreciated in these quarters!!!
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I'm 69 and grew up just south of Birmingham.
Much of what described on food and hygiene hung on into the 50's and 60's.. a bath was an innovation that my father fitted when we moved from central Brum. A bath was a weekly event. I remember a stand up wash. People would refer to it as a "rinse". When we first moved the toilet was reached from outside and freezing in winter. Each bed had a "po" under it to go to the toilet at night.
Heating restricted to the living room. In winter you'd wake up to frost on the inside of bedroom windows.
My grandfathers house was rented. It was a two up, one down of the dimensions in this video. My grandparents had 11 kids.
A table dominated the living room with not much space around it. In the 50's the lighting was town gas and the heating and cooking done on a cast iron range. A tiny scullery with a Belfast sink leading to the cellar steps or "coal hole". Zinc bath hanging on the outside wall. Shared toilets with the neighbor's. A "brew house" where everyone heated up water to do the washing.. a central brick courtyard that everyones house opened on to.
Very basic but a strong community with everyone pulling together...they had to.
Potatoes were in the diet but bread dominated as the staple. Sandwiches, bread with your meal, often lots of it to soak up gravy and fill you..
Big changes began in the mid 60's. The slums were bulldozed and people moved out of the centre of town to tower blocks and estates.
Anything with Ruth Goodman in is an automatic watch. The Discworld reference is a bonus. :D
I love Ruth Goodman. More of this, please.
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My great grandmother, even into the early 1920s wore several petticoats. Unbleached calico then red flannel etc. When my mum was little in the 1920s she recalled worrying that when she grew up she would forget the order. Gt grandma also wore drawers. Ie. 2 tubes of lace trimmed cotton joined at the top and having a drawstring through the top to fix in place. No gusset.
Of course fasions changed while mum was still little. 😂
I watched it 3 times just because it was Ruth Goodman.
🤝 and because the video is too short
I could listen to her all day. I wish i had her job
Upvoted for Granny Weatherwax, and delighted to learn this is a new series.
I also grew up washing in the morning but from when I was 18 months old in 1949 we lived in a lovely 3 bed brand new council house with a coke stove in the kitchen for heating the water. There also was an electric emersion heater in the tank that was used in summer. We kids all piled in the bath every evening. Hair was washed saturday nights to be clean for church on Sunday.
My mum did as generations of women before her had done. She tucked her corset in the bed as she got up so it was warm to put on.
Mind you grandma down in London still only had cold water. But the warm water in the tin bath by the fire is still one of my memories of when we visited.
Ruth is brilliant, one of a kind.
Ruth Goodman, you are famous to *me*. No one else I've met in real life has heard of you but You are in the A list of my heart.
I was born and brought up in those conditions. It’s funny to think that this was commonplace in living memory. I also still sleep with the window open all night, can’t stand s stuffy hot atmosphere.
Thank you for bringing history to life !I always enjoy watching you !
I'm so glad that this has been posted. I've been missing my fix of history from Ruth since her wonderful podcast finished.
She's such a great presenter - knowledgeable, entertaining and she has a lovely way of speaking.
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Love Ruth...ALWAYS! She is the best.
Wonderful love Ruth Goodman's easy style of presenting facts.
Ruth Goodman, what a treasure! she is!, without doubt, the most honest presenter: deals in facts!.
Whenever I start to watch 'history' or 'fact based' TV programs I cringe the moment fantasy appears in word or image, here we have Ruth talking about the real conditions of the working class, I love that!, I know how the WC washed, ate, dressed as I was one, yep the Victorian lifestyle hitched a ride into the 50s/60s and likely 70s * 80s for some poor souls.
She is an icon
Ruth, you are a wealth of information and I love all of your videos! I have been a fan for years! Missouri, USA
I'm so delighted to see this lady again! I'm in her age group and she looks so healthy, so fresh compared to the corpse-like appearance we usually see these days. This Texan needs to memorize her name because I've enjoyed her in other videos here.
@@loveisall5520 - RUTH GOODMAN. 🙂
So happy to see her. I would watch and listen to her describe peeling potatoes.
Always a pleasure.
Missing Ruth. Would be terrific to see her in more new videos. I have watched all of her older videos repeatedly. 😍👏😎
Ruth!! Your lovely face and voice are a treat for the winter horribles setting in here in Colorado!
Well, she was brilliant. I learnt so much! I could listen to her all day.
Beautiful house inside and outside with a beautiful garden around it. And Ruth looks great in this outfit, totally her colour. Want to see more of her daughters. Always get a kick out of Katherine being a Ruth clone!
So VERY good to see you again, Ruth!!!
Love this woman, she brings history to life, very passionate ❤️
I saw Ruth Goodman, and here I am. Wonderful! More please!
Wonderful seeing Ruth again and hearing the history, thank you
Just adorable! Amazing historian and lady! Great job!
I could listen to Ruth read her shopping list and she would make it interesting! Wonderful woman. Subscribed 😊
I love this-so well put together! To share one of my favorite bits of Victoriana, from Random Shots from a Rifleman, Sir John Kincaid, 1835
"Who has not passed down Blackfriars-road of an evening? and who has not seen, in the vicinity of Rowland Hill's chapel, at least half a dozen gentlemen presiding each over his highly polished tin case, surmounted by variegated lamps, and singing out that most enchanting of all earthly melodies to an empty stomach, that has got a sixpence in its clothly casement, "hot, all hot!" The whole concern is not above the size of a drum, and, in place of dealing148 in its empty sounds, rejoices in mutton-pies, beef-steaks, and kidney-puddings, "hot, all hot!" If the gentlemen had but followed us to the wars, how they would have been worshipped in such a night, even without their lamps."
The amount of buying prepared food is amazing. But for a working person, especially one who was single, who had limited access to cooking facilities, it was quite common.
Even families had limited cooking facilities. Fast food has been part of urban life since before the Romans.
It’s these details that we want to learn! I also like the video magic put into this video, the steam, the germs etc.
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OMG IT’S MF RUTH GOODMANNNN!!!
Clicked immediately upon seeing.
Edit: Ruth is a global treasure.
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One error in that story about the canary: carbon dioxide is denser than air, so if the cage with the canary hangs high up in the four-poster bed the sleeping occupants would be dead long before the canary. Canaries were used in mines though to detect areas of lethal carbon dioxide concentration.
The coal mine canaries were for detecting odorless carbon monoxide. As I understand it, you don't know you aren't getting enough air with carbon monoxide.
Perhaps the print media of the day did not want to let facts get in the way of a nice sensationalist story!
Carbon monoxide would have been more dangerous than carbon dioxide and the canaries with their higher breathing rate and metabolism and small size would succumb first.
So excited to see Ruth Goodman!
Can't get enough of Ruth Goodman!
I’ve always known Ruth Goodman was wonderful to watch, but I’ve only just realised what a beautiful, and relaxing, voice she has 😊
This is very fascinating. It’s quite strange I was just folding some clean clothes & the thought of how my ancestors did things came into my head. Then I grabbed my phone & your video was just there. Subbed ❤
we're glad to hear it! 🧺
Oh thank you so much she was such a great storyteller I could listen to you for hours sending love from New Zealand originally from Wales I used to wash like that as a girl I was brought up in a pit house tiny rooms outside toilet no running hot water that ❤
What an special personality! So much information given in the most effective and engaging manner. Will look for more of her work.
I adore Ruth Goodman.❤
Omg, Ruth Goodman I missed you❤
Ruth! Love her, she is fantastic 🎉made my day to see something new from her.
Always interesting and enlightening! Ruth is marvelous! Looking forward to more of this series!
I love Ruth so much 😍
Yay Ruth Goodman! Loved this 💗
I love Ruth Goodman, she is amazing!❤
I love Ruth Goodman
I truly enjoy watching and learning from Ruth. She brings history to life with her passion for the subjects that she studies. I wish my children could have a history teacher like her.
I loved the Curious history of your home and was very disappointed when it ended. Please do some more episodes. Your narrative and presentation are above all most other podcasts
I could honestly listen to Ruth all day ❤. Last month I visited Edinburgh-and therefore Britain- for the very first time, and for the flight home I bought "How to be a Victorian" by Ruth Goodman. It was on my reading list for a good while and I absolutely love this book it's so interesting to see how people lived back then and how many things we generally get wrong about that time.
I also needed to chuckle a bit about the food portion of this video... I am German and sometimes I find myself just eating bread for a few days in a row because I can't be bothered to cook or have nothing else in the house 🙈. Bread is so prominent in our Breakfast and "Abendbrot" - culture that I am sometimes just like "Welp let's eat it for lunch too I suppose". Of course this is not to compare with the poor quality of victorian bread, and WE luckily have cheese, sausage and butter with the bread, but it kinda gave me a little impression how monotonous the victorian diet of poor people. Just have been. Coincidentally one of my favourite comfort foods is also boiled or baked peeled Potato with some sourcream 😅. Kinda weird to voluntarily choosing eat like someone who simply HAD TO eat that way more then a 100 years ago.
Is this a new series?? Omg can you post the episodes? I LOVE historical documentaries with Ruth, Peter and Alex!!
It's been quite a long while since I last saw Ruth presenting
You know, I would love to see Ruth Goodman address the needlework samplers of children's schools. Nicola Parkman from Hands Across the Sea Samplers has re-created a lot of samplers done by victorian schoolgirls. I would love to see a collaboration maybe? But I would be interested in the historian's view of what it was like for those girls making those samplers.
Have you read Lark Rise to Cnadleford Green? The author speaks about her education during the transition between late Victorian and Edwardian eras.
@@erickalear7609 No, I haven't. I'll look for it. 😊
Ruth Goodman is such a fantastic stortyteller
Excellent, Excellent and Excellent!
This made my day, thank you!
I lived in Edinburgh during WW2. Lots of similar ways of living. Love you Ruth. Val Australua
I love Ruth's presentations!
I love Ruth she is remarkable woman
This video was so nice and cozy combined with interesting knowlegde. Just what I needed. Thank you :)
Love you Ruth. Been following you for years. Brilliant piece.
Brilliant, I want more, right now lol!
We're really glad you enjoyed it! There's lots more Ruth in our Victorian Academy online course - including two live Q&As. You can find out more and join us here: www.historyextra.com/join/
CONGRATULATIONS! Thanks a lot for the great piece of information and the wonderful lively, and brilliant presentation of Ruth Goodman🙂