As a modern American farmer I just love this series. Peace, war, great year or drought. We farmers work to feed people no matter the challenge or personal sacrifice because it's the right thing to do. I hope for a day humans wake up and stop killing each other because my job as a farmer is to make people live.
As a fellow Modern American farmer, that does what I gotta do to get the job done. I like to think the old-time farmers would have built a much better mulling implement and wouldn't have given up as easily.
Yup, I'd wish they'd do more of those but there hasn't been a new one in a while now, "24 Hours in the Past" is still missing from the channel so maybe we got that to look out for still
Actually, Ruth's husband Mark Goodman was also involved in the productions of the various Historical Farm series, and both of their daughters have appeared at various times. Their daughter Eve appears several times in Wartime Farm. Peter and Alex's personal lives are not so public; they are best known for appearing in various other shows over the years as well as their work as writers and archaeologists.
In all the farm, castle&a over all the Tudor series(is in a museum) ;it was announced that they are not sleeping there actually in any of them(I went back&checked because Ruth appeared to sleep'there'&in tales of the green valley it was explained-laws=insurance-2 men have wives&young kids&Ruth's hubby is a Tudor kind of guy(in that one)
I love Ruth. I love all three of them but Ruth embraces the domestic role with such gusto and enthusiasm she makes the farm series enjoyable. I implore anyone to get the companion books they’ve written because it really enriches the series.
The blacksmith 17:16 is the same blacksmith that made that beautiful Cockerel Weather vain in Edwardian Farm which was the best one they every did. It was 12 Episodes and is really worth the time to watch..
*The episodes on the Wartime Farm-playlist are out of order!* This is clearly *the first* episode but it's the _4th_ on the playlist. Please, check and fix the order ASAP, since the playlist is supposed to present the episodes in chronological order for coherence of presentation. Thank you.
You know the more often.I watch these the more I like Ruth. She really gets into the role and she genuinely loves history and she just is the favorite of mine. She won me over with that pigeon basket she wove.
It wasn't just dedication it was mandated by the government & if your neighbor didn't think you were pulling your weight they would vandalize you. I read up on this & was shocked at the brutality behind the war effort
Contrast this to the selfish people during the pandemic, who value their own personal freedom over the good of everyone. During WWII, those people would have been quickly and firmly dealt with by officials, or by their own neighbours.
ASDF I’m sure they’d see it as a miracle, just for the ease of cleaning, eh? Especially a farmhouse! I can only image trying to keep wood floors clean😣. It’s a working farm. I can’t imagine “taking your boots off” Would do the trick lol. I’d still rather have linoleum in my kitchen and bathroom ANYDAY than the wood I have now. Even tile has that grout to try to keep sanitary☹️
@@mangot589 Oh definitely, the ability to clean the floor easily was a pretty big deal I'm sure. I couldn't imagine what work wood or stone/brick floors must've been to clean with all that got tracked in.
Ruth is so joyous and happy! I’d love to be near her as a friend to enjoy things like this. She jumps in with both feet and does what it takes. And does it happily. No complaints. Just love her and the boys. The boys complain a bit but still gets things done.
Oh my. Your series makes this all come so ALIVE. Of course it is so good to remember how close humankind came to losing everything of real value: our freedom. My thanks to everyone who brings us Manor Farm. -Julie in Newport News VA
I am 67 and am so interested is the Great Depression and how life was. I am binge watching Asolute History. Amazing how these people re-enacted this era. Kinda jealous lol❤
Thank you for these series! My Grandfathers fought in WWI(He passed when my Father was a young man) and WWII. One of them was a Dairy Farmer in the States, and passed the business and the way of life down to my Father. In times like these we can never forget what all of our ancestors went through and how Lucky we truly are, in these days.
It's devastating to think that WW2 REALLY happened. I'm 24 now so way too young to experience war itself or the direct aftermaths of it. I only know pictures, short videos and what I learned in school and from books and documentaries. I know what happened in concentration camps and what soldiers did and it makes me so sick to know than mankind was this cruel. And since I'm from austria this part of our history is always present in one way or another. Now, seeing the lifes of ordinary people from this time, coming to life is even more devastating but I'm absolutley thankful, that this wartime series was made. It opens the eyes for younger generations and helps us understanding how cruel war is and what impact it has made on ordinary people! There are so many documentaries about soldiers, jews and other people who got killed because of their religion, sexuality or because they were disabled and this is SO important but the family next door and how their life was affected is important too. So thank you very very much Absolute History for licensing this series and make it accessible for ordinary people all around the world ♥
@Victoria - Dont breath to calm, the ones (Banks + Richest 1% + CH-Templars/Aristocracy) behind all the war ( & peace time) crminal countries (incl. NZI-GER, IT, JP, USSR, UK, USA etc.) are still in power. (Spoiler: also the NZIs won & got evacuated to USA, Switzerland, South America & some ranks were later taken over by the BRD ) while the simple German people lost & got finally broken)
How wonderful I think you must be to have somehow put your thoughts to what must have been a reality to your grandparents as it was to my parents&does it ever seem to stop!? My peers&I born at the end of this war&on to the Korean&'our'wars-Viet Nam through-to-9/11&2desert wars&the world needs yrs of peace for us all&above all people who know these histories&try not to repeat them-
My Uncle Bill was killed in Nazi Germany, 22 days before they surrendered. I inherited the family farm and sleep in his bedroom. My grandparents never recovered. What if? Well, among his things, still on the bookshelves is an introductory book to Japanese. If he'd survived Europe, he'd have been sent to Asia.
@@fucku3460 Yes, because parents know all this and are capable teachers. There is a reason for teachers! Also there is no guarantee that th eparents would do a good job (overly religious people and "questionable" people fo rexample. All of this would have to be observed and tested by the government, where you can just let them go to school anyway... What you are saying is not really thought through, my friend.
This episode is freaking riveting! The fellows are truly in their element, in this episode. We used our Ford tractor, as kids in the fifties and sixties, the way kids today use quads. It was our real easy to use putt putt.. Gosh my parents farmhouse still has all the war-time linoleum still on the floors today. Some worn a bit, but all still very good!
My granny is from Norfolk, Wells-Next- the-Sea, she was a child during WWII, seeing what these years might have been like is extremely interesting. I’m lucky because I can ask her questions about these times.
I love how they brought in the cows to eat down the grass in the planned wheat field, and then when they use the mole the grass has recently, and obviously been cut with a tractor or mower. 😄 I do truly love the series though, and I imagine they have to speed up their process where they can, to make for good and timely filming.
It was the same in the USSR and in America, too. Every single time "Great Leaders" decide it's time to divvy up the earth amongst themselves yet again, the regular folks just trying to get by are always the ones who suffer and have to work even harder just to eat. It was true during the Roman Empire, it was true in the Dark and Middle Ages, it was true during the Great War and WW2, and it's still true now. Somehow in every political system there's always money to make more weapons and wage more wars... but seldom enough money to feed and care for the people.
Orion NAID I adore her. She TRULY goes all in! And the stuff she knows? Good heavens could you imagine what would happen nowadays if they had to do this kind of thing now? Nobody would have a clue!
I mean, Edwardian Farm was also in the 20th century. Which makes me wonder why they didn't just go back to Morewellham Quay and pretend they were the children of their last group of characters.
As an experienced farmer, your mole diameter seems to be a little small. Be careful when hand cranking engines, if the tractor backfires, the crank can break your arm.
I love the old boy at 29:30 hard as nails! Reminds me off my grandfather when we lived with him for a bit on a sheep farm here in Australia. No slacking off or you get a ear full. lol
Did anyone else giggle watching Peter turn with the surveying equipment exactly when Alex bent down, expecting a Laurel and Hardy vaudevillian comedy moment? #Disappointment
Ruth has the best giggle until it becomes a cackle that is absolutely contagious. I am going to enjoy this....again. lol I love watching or listening to Absolute History playlists.
Ruth is always having such fun. Besides Ruth, Alex and Peter - I congratulate the entire Editorial and Production Team at Absolute History for an absolutely magnificent series. Thank you, all. NEXT ONE>>
My parents grew up during that era in South Africa, first the depression and then the war. The same things applied here, as we were a British colony. They came from a farming community and were able to produce their own food. But things like spares for motor vehicles, tractors and fuel (petrol) was strictly rationed. Tyres were impossible to get. My father told me that they resorted to putting long grass inside the tyres because the were so warn it could not hold air any more. Under wear were made from used flower bags. Clothes were patched and patched again. Tough times. One thing that strikes me is that they had no obesity and diabetes problems in those days. They were fit stong and healthy. Hard times none the less.
Hopefully Britain has continued the farming culture and kept a measure of food independence. All the nations need to do their best to remain food and energy independent as much as is possible.
There are plenty of jobs that are still very archaic if you want to work your ass off and make Shillings engineering work my ass off doing the same job as people did a few thousand years ago making crack money..... but from the fact that you're fantasizing about a farm I'm going to assume you've never set foot on one because yeah there are plenty of working for him and you could go do lots of things on
Then prepare for waking up before dawn, feed the animals, clean out their living spaces, get dirty, plant, dig, harvest till its done, grow a garden...not always have a bath, eat what is served to you, yea good luck. Its not sitting around on a farm. Its back breaking work.
Wow. Learned something new about myself today: apparantly i'm a hopeless, unrealistic dreamer who in no way knows anything whatsoever about hard work, no income, and so forth. Thank you internet strangers, you know me so well. That being said: I still want to feel on my body and mind and learn first hand what it was like in the time of the generations before me. Yes, i would have had a very, very difficult time, there would be tears of pain and exhaustion, i'd desperatly dream of a hot shower and sweatpants, all of the luxery of our time, and ofcourse there would be several moments where i'd want to quit. Then again, i never said i didnt know just a fraction of what i would be signing up for. You just assumed. 🤯
Really love these historical reenactments it’s like the best way to learn history, a book can only take you so far but it can never put you in the history/situation of events as acting can.
Ruth, Alex, Peter, the narrator and all the other actors are bringing real history alive. It is not just the drivel that we had to learn to advance out of school, it's a look into what real life was like. My wife's family were farmers in Scotland and mine were as well farmers in the Netherlands. My grand father was also in the dutch resistance.
I love this show. I want to travel to the UK someday so bad! I love the accents, the people, the lifestyle, the values, the beauty of it all and I love the history! I'm from Newfoundland, and we are still a "Dominion" of the Her Majesty The Queen, but we are part of Canada as well.. yeah, I know, confusing. So, my ancestors are from the UK and actually owned an Inn and Farm and about 50 acres of land just about an hour or so outside of London (I Can't remember the name of the actual place at the moment.) but the Inn was called the "Hearts Hearth" and the Farm and land was called "Collins Farm".. It's still out there now and being taken care of by my great aunts and uncles so I HAVE to go out there eventually, hopefully to stay for a few years! Most of the farmland is deep forest, and always had been but now it's even more forested areas because the Farm was always a family farm and not a big production farm, they were there since the 1500's and it is right along the old "king's Road" so I think they just had the Farm and such for the family's survival (also they raised Horses) and eventually used more of the land to build and expand to make the best out of being right on the Kings Road, so they ended up thinking of getting into the hospitality business and built Hearts Hearth, right in front of the Farm Cottage that they lived in and right behind the cottage was the barn/horse stalls/horse field and other small buildings and all around that was about 7 acres of land that had all kind of livestock and veggies and right next to the cottage was the "Family Food". That close little garden patches grew veggies, herbs, fruits and also they had a creepy looking well. These tiny gardens that had survived since the 1500's were the first things that were grown there before expanding. Also, there was A LOT of herb gardens all over the front and back of the cottage, and the only way you would know it was there was from the air obviously, but it was shrouded in trees besides the huge door and now a big sign, but back then it was just a lane you turned in dotted with lamps and the unmistakable "Inn/Farmhouse style" red wooden fences to the left and right of the whole property in the front that let the people traveling know that they were approaching an Inn. So cool. The pictures are so beautiful!!! Also, I'm sure there were some sort of sign back then as well.. but they are very close with the other Farm in town and they were the only in until about a half a day or more out of the way in the direction away from London and I THINK was the last stop before you actually hit London, but it took almost 3 days to reach London after you departed Hearts Hearth, so I bet they made their money back in the day! Later on maybe in the 60's or 70's they went out and actually has a manmade pond that you can swim in made! I'm really close with that side of my family and we write letter all the time. I can't wait to visit them, I really wanted to go there in the early 2000's, but my mother wanted to move to Ireland instead, so we didn't end up going to Hearts Hearth. I was only 12, so I couldn't complain or make the final decision. Now that I'm older, I'm definitely going over there, staying definitely for a year and maybe more and maybe forever if I like it enough and find someone I can start a family with =).. Anyways, sorry about the long post, but this video made me have the feels!
I think this trio is phenomenal no matter what setting they are in. Thank you very much for these spectacular videos. With great appreciation and respect. From Ohio, USA 🇺🇸
i don't do drugs but for an absolute history buff this is my drug of choice, I'm loving this show. To every history buff the biggest disappointment is you can imagine all you like but you will never get to experience it live the history, this is the rare chance to live history id pay to be somebody in a working village from the 1940s
You are addicted to many things and do not realize it. Caffeine, petroleum, Internet, and so many conveniences that were they to disappear you would actually have withdrawal symptoms....You are not in a world war but there is plenty to be aware of such as crime (lock your doors), street gangs, terrorists, and even the loss of job looms over us all so we must prepare, be self-sufficient and know how to do the things you are seeing in this video. Most people do not even know how their car engine works!
@@cravinbob Oh! Thank goodness you were in the comment section to tell her that!!! Her admission to addiction wasn’t sufficient it needed someone like you to point it out.
I was born in 1950. I've spent my whole life thinking I should've been born at the same time as my dad, 1912: Too young for WWI and too old for WW2 (or at least not likely to be in the front lines.) I would've loved to have been a journalist then, so much history going on all around you.
That surviving auxiliary unit member that is only willing to talk only about his fellow service men that are deceased by now is apparently, what is my guess, still in readiness to get in action shall a need arise, even as of today, even though he's obviously in a very advanced age and so are his companions that are still alive and whom he shall not name. That is a level of dedication and loyalty I can't express enough respect and admiration for.
I bought a Fordson tractor here in the states about 20 years ago. It was a rusted piece of junk that I paid someone 2k USD. At the time I had no idea what I was getting my self into. It was a ~1956 Fordson Power Major. Every single time I need a part it had to come from the UK or I had to drive hundreds of miles to a tractor junkyard to find parts. I did about a 95% restoration on the beast and my younger brother blew out the engine trying to grade a rather large hill in the hill country near Pipe Creek, Texas. It was a labor of love and I spend WELL more that it was ever worth. To this day my wife chastises me for not doing my "homework" on a tractor restoration. That being said, bringing a old piece of machinery back to life was an exciting endeavor and something I would never trade for anything.
after they lived the castle life for a year, i remember thinking 'oh i wish they would do the everyday life of half a dozen average types from ww2, so I'm in heaven here as to I'm sure every experimental archeologist is just as happy to watch this and like me equally disappointed i cant be part of it
The BBC made a number of series about living through WWII that are now on TH-cam. One centers around an older woman and others who remembered how things were and re-created parts of it for a 6-part miniseries, iirc. Another is a w1st Century family living in the conditions of WWII for a month as a family experience/reality show. That one is rough, because none of them is as prepared for the situation as they expected to be. Rather like the pandemic in that regard.
@@indy_go_blue6048 I was thinking of Wartime Kitchen and Garden th-cam.com/video/rLBRK5Tf1I4/w-d-xo.html and The 1940s House th-cam.com/video/PWZQKbHOuKk/w-d-xo.html when I commented. This is also interesting. Turn Back Time: The Family th-cam.com/video/kF3gCcByjm0/w-d-xo.html You might also enjoy I Was There: WWII th-cam.com/video/rLBRK5Tf1I4/w-d-xo.html
They also have Victorian House and High Street marketing series (High Street aka Turn Back Time playlist -- a new period covered in each video.) They're GREAT!!
I absolutely adore the reenactments I have always been a huge fan of the Victorian Era and was really bummed when I ran out of episode until I found these other ones. I wish they would do this as like a summer camp where people could come and stay a week or a month so the could get the full experience. I just love how they don't take any shortcuts they arrive in period style transportation, they start from scratch down to setting up the home. Just wow
It still blows my mind people had to do this, regular citizens ..farmers helping the cause. They risked their lives basically. This is AMAZING! They all did an amazing job!! Wish they still made this show
@@NathanChisholm041 No offense was meant, I'm sure. Tigerz might be female. We admire the lad's work, and admire the lasses. Females admire the lasses work, and admire the lads. In the end, the lasses are still working just as hard as the lads, just in a different way!
The kind of series that could be done here in America I would like to be part of would be living during the Colonial/American Revolution times. I love history. Sounds like Britain went through about the same here in America during WWII. I thank all soldiers on both sides of the ocean for their service.
My great-grandfather enlisted in french-canada at 16 in 1917 and he did his service in the marine escorting Cargo boat to england and back to canada....He reenlisted at the start of ww2 and there's still story in the family of how he used to see boat in his convoy sinking or just to never be seen again. Thousands lost to feed and rearm the allied in GB. The battles were everywhere not just in the farms nor just the trench.
Holy shit, Ruth's pop made me start laughing immediately, especially with his tip about how to game the system to get more dosh for picking in bad weather!
In my grandparents place they still use paraffin/kerosene stove because it's hard to transport heavy and cumbersome propane tanks to rural area. It's not as hot as propane stove and cooking took considerable time. That's why it's only used to cook quick and simple food like seared fish, fried vegetables and omelettes while for stuff like cooking rice or even boiling water, they still use wood stove
This series does seem a lot more emotionally charged. It's one thing to look at a distant memory of a farm in the 1500's, so far removed from our memory that most people have no idea what it was like, and many details were lost and forgotten. It's a whole other thing to do this with something that exists in our collective - and sometimes personal - memory in details and colours, and is so recent that we can see ourselves in it now.
Oh my gosh! After binging the castle and the other (Edwardian) farm , I was sad, thought I was done. Then I clicked on this, when it said "for the next year" I was so happy! So entranced by these! I always held a fascination with WWll, looking forward to watching the rest of this season!
You can tell when theyve *really* planned out the shot not just because of the way it looks but the little gags Peter and Alex seem to throw in. Like Alex ducking *just* in time to not get hit by the tools Peters carrying, or Alex not opening the gate for Peter after hopping over it. Its almost slapstick in a way lol
28:21 oooh, i feel that in my bones! Our tractor isn't as old as that one (iirc something like fifty years old) and has an electric starter, but the sound when changing gears/doing stuff with the clutch is the same! You feel the vibration in your bones before the gears get in position.
Being from america it is quite shocking to feel what was going on. i wasnt even borned close to that time and i guess pretty spoiled. I hear my grandma and grandpa talking about it in their times when i was so young. it was quite hard in its own right. ty for showing how it was in war so close to where you are. still so hard as in victorian times and edwardian times but there are easier things and gadgets.. ty for bringing it all as it was. ty and Hi Peter
I remember when the current war broke out I thought we’d have the types of rationing as they had back then Of course I was only 6 and had just learned about WWII
This is like a film, a produt that show what happeend a long of history. I'm not britain, but I think this is so much good! Much better that tv's shows without reallity and consistence. Thank you so very much! Congratulations for this kind of show!
Yes. InterNazionsl - InterNazi Britain and France declared war on Nazional - Nazi Germany and started WW2 in Europe. Former Britain deserved her fate. Now former Britain lost almost all industry and is poor Islamic country.
It’s interesting how people were what used to be called “jacks of all trades”-able to do a bit of anything, as shown by the guys doing the surveying and draining etc. Of course Ruth is always ready to give anything a go. Then there’s machinery repair, blacksmithing of a common sort. You had a go at things yourself, maybe asked a neighbouring farmer or an older person for advice, and you had to be really stumped to call in paid experts. Of course in war time, most professionals were called up and there skills used by the Forces. I imagine surveyors and mechanics were in great demand. However there’s always been a tradition for rural people, specially, to go it alone. Working class people in the suburbs might try mechanical repairs or house improvements, but it was more of a hobby. I’m Australian and so it’s even more intrinsic to our country way of life. If a vital piece of machinery broke, you couldn’t get a new part delivered in two hours by drone, or even overnight. It took days, and then you had to go to town or the railway station to collect it. That meant days lost, maybe harvests or shearing spoiled. So, no $$$ If you’re half a days ride from your nearest neighbour or town, and days away from city services, you have to be inventive and determined!
I love the adventures of these three. Victorian Britain and Edwardian Britain, and I'm curious about this series as well, but I'm finding it challenging to watch because my Opa (grandpa) fought in this war. For Germany. He was captured and held in a Jewish concentration camp. The whole situation makes me want to cry. 😬😥
Fought for Germany and was in a Jewish concentration camp? As a prisoner? Then he did something that totally pissed off the Nazi powers-that-be so be proud of him (if I understand you correctly.)
I’m sorry it’s so difficult for you but I agree with the other commenter. Your Opa must really, really, have offended the Nazi powers. So be proud. I’m Australian, with German ancestors a few generations back. I’ve found a past relative was a Panzer captain. Not an ancestor, but it’s not a big family chain so maybe a second or third cousin twice removed- or something. I’ve yet to research it. But I’m weirdly proud of him. He was famous, there were comic books and news reel movies about him. He only joined the Nazi Party after the war started, so I’m assuming it was a condition of his captaincy. He was so respected, England and Canada still argue over which one of them managed to destroy his tank, in 1945. He did some very brave things, and got into trouble for them because they “weren’t authorised” although it’s possible he was gunning at my grandfather’s unit sometimes in France. I try just to acknowledge that any war is a tragedy for everyone, and many many brave and pitiful people had their lives destroyed or ruined. My grandfather did, as he returned with injuries that disabled him until his death. His children never again had a healthy father. My other grandfather, the one who was the connecting relative, meanwhile was in a reserved occupation here, working for the war effort! I want to cry when I see them listening to the announcement on the radio, knowing what’s ahead. It has that effect on me every time. Imagine being a woman like Ruth then. You’d lost brothers, boyfriends, maybe husbands and fathers in the First World War, and now they knew they had to send their sons to fight. The best respect and reverence we can give is to never have it happen again. Which in March, 2022 seems a lost hope.
26:00: Yes increased production depends on increased mechanical power as opposed to animal power because machines don't need to rest --- but on the other hand, horses don't need hard-to-find repair parts to fix them when they break down --- ever think of that?
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The fact that Ruth enjoys literally everything makes watching her so entertaining 👍🏻
She laughs to loud & to long
@@kathychildress18 I disagree.
@@kathychildress18 i pity you, if seeing someone passionate and enjoying themselves annoys you, i think shes amazing and motherly
@@kathychildress18 You can't spell Honey 🤭
I want to be more like her.
I want a recipe book, and I want a rubarb pie.
As a modern American farmer I just love this series. Peace, war, great year or drought. We farmers work to feed people no matter the challenge or personal sacrifice because it's the right thing to do. I hope for a day humans wake up and stop killing each other because my job as a farmer is to make people live.
Wow Mark you sound like a Very *PASSIONATE* man.... Is there a Mrs. Farmer Mark Johnson?
As a fellow Modern American farmer, that does what I gotta do to get the job done. I like to think the old-time farmers would have built a much better mulling implement and wouldn't have given up as easily.
Is anyone else binging these farm series during the covid-19 isolation, or is it just me?
I´m on my third run!
Oh yeah. I'd watch them in rotation fairly often anyway, but now they're even more comforting.
absolute history in 2120; farming during covid 19 isolasion
Yup, I'd wish they'd do more of those but there hasn't been a new one in a while now, "24 Hours in the Past" is still missing from the channel so maybe we got that to look out for still
Yup. I found Victorian farm because I love 19th century dress and then I found all the other farm/monastery/castle videos. These are awesome
I can only imagine what Ruth, Alex and Peter's families think about them being gone for 1 year at a time. 🤔 I appreciate all thier hard times/work!
about the closest one could get to full-on time travel really
I bet they don't live like that 24/7 all year long. I'm sure they get to see their families plenty.
Actually, Ruth's husband Mark Goodman was also involved in the productions of the various Historical Farm series, and both of their daughters have appeared at various times. Their daughter Eve appears several times in Wartime Farm.
Peter and Alex's personal lives are not so public; they are best known for appearing in various other shows over the years as well as their work as writers and archaeologists.
In all the farm, castle&a over all the Tudor series(is in a museum) ;it was announced that they are not sleeping there actually in any of them(I went back&checked because Ruth appeared to sleep'there'&in tales of the green valley it was explained-laws=insurance-2 men have wives&young kids&Ruth's hubby is a Tudor kind of guy(in that one)
Not much at all-they can not actually live there so where they do live- their wives,hubby&6kids are there(2 each)
I love Ruth. I love all three of them but Ruth embraces the domestic role with such gusto and enthusiasm she makes the farm series enjoyable. I implore anyone to get the companion books they’ve written because it really enriches the series.
The blacksmith 17:16 is the same blacksmith that made that beautiful Cockerel Weather vain in Edwardian Farm which was the best one they every did. It was 12 Episodes and is really worth the time to watch..
Nice catch! I missed that lovely detail.
That was the most exquisite weather vane i’ve ever seen! And the process of making it was fascinating.
*The episodes on the Wartime Farm-playlist are out of order!*
This is clearly *the first* episode but it's the _4th_ on the playlist.
Please, check and fix the order ASAP, since the playlist is supposed to present the episodes in chronological order for coherence of presentation. Thank you.
As a former re-enactor, I appreciate what Ruth has done. I wish I’d had the opportunity. She is brilliant!
How does one even get into re-enacting
You have to buy all your kit right?
You know the more often.I watch these the more I like Ruth. She really gets into the role and she genuinely loves history and she just is the favorite of mine. She won me over with that pigeon basket she wove.
Me too&they shouldn't have laughed
Silly, but I cried. Everyone doing their bit plus the absolute dedication of each man and woman. Yes, I cried.
Yes, it's so, so sad that such acts of collaboration only stem from war...
Me too, and aside from the grim subject matter, it’s so charming and beautiful. Before wartime, so just lovely.
It wasn't just dedication it was mandated by the government & if your neighbor didn't think you were pulling your weight they would vandalize you. I read up on this & was shocked at the brutality behind the war effort
Contrast this to the selfish people during the pandemic, who value their own personal freedom over the good of everyone. During WWII, those people would have been quickly and firmly dealt with by officials, or by their own neighbours.
Living History is so fun to watch. The quality of these documentaries with these English historians are amazing.
It's funny how linoleum flooring was probably all the rage back then, and now it's seen as cheap and undesirable. Love this series by the way.
ASDF I’m sure they’d see it as a miracle, just for the ease of cleaning, eh? Especially a farmhouse! I can only image trying to keep wood floors clean😣. It’s a working farm. I can’t imagine “taking your boots off” Would do the trick lol. I’d still rather have linoleum in my kitchen and bathroom ANYDAY than the wood I have now. Even tile has that grout to try to keep sanitary☹️
@@mangot589 Oh definitely, the ability to clean the floor easily was a pretty big deal I'm sure. I couldn't imagine what work wood or stone/brick floors must've been to clean with all that got tracked in.
good stuff, generally made including asbestos
@@asdf9890 Ruth goes into the details of that in an episode of Edwardian Farm, where they have flagstone floors.
@Usa mabaho I'd take lino over a cheap vinyl any time. The cheap vinyl doesn't last.
Ruth is so joyous and happy! I’d love to be near her as a friend to enjoy things like this. She jumps in with both feet and does what it takes. And does it happily. No complaints. Just love her and the boys. The boys complain a bit but still gets things done.
Love this series. Love all these series.
My wife I recently had a baby and we have been watching through all the series! They are great!
Oh my. Your series makes this all come so ALIVE. Of course it is so good to remember how close humankind came to losing everything of real value: our freedom. My thanks to everyone who brings us Manor Farm.
-Julie in Newport News VA
Ruth screwing in the lightbulb for it to just fall out and smash while she stood looking pleased with herself was hilarious. 🤣
I am 67 and am so interested is the Great Depression and how life was. I am binge watching Asolute History. Amazing how these people re-enacted this era. Kinda jealous lol❤
I just love ruth :) so cheerful and quick to laugh.
Thank you for these series! My Grandfathers fought in WWI(He passed when my Father was a young man) and WWII. One of them was a Dairy Farmer in the States, and passed the business and the way of life down to my Father. In times like these we can never forget what all of our ancestors went through and how Lucky we truly are, in these days.
It's devastating to think that WW2 REALLY happened. I'm 24 now so way too young to experience war itself or the direct aftermaths of it. I only know pictures, short videos and what I learned in school and from books and documentaries. I know what happened in concentration camps and what soldiers did and it makes me so sick to know than mankind was this cruel. And since I'm from austria this part of our history is always present in one way or another.
Now, seeing the lifes of ordinary people from this time, coming to life is even more devastating but I'm absolutley thankful, that this wartime series was made. It opens the eyes for younger generations and helps us understanding how cruel war is and what impact it has made on ordinary people!
There are so many documentaries about soldiers, jews and other people who got killed because of their religion, sexuality or because they were disabled and this is SO important but the family next door and how their life was affected is important too.
So thank you very very much Absolute History for licensing this series and make it accessible for ordinary people all around the world ♥
@Victoria -
Dont breath to calm, the ones (Banks + Richest 1% + CH-Templars/Aristocracy) behind all the war ( & peace time) crminal countries (incl. NZI-GER, IT, JP, USSR, UK, USA etc.) are still in power.
(Spoiler: also the NZIs won & got evacuated to USA, Switzerland, South America & some ranks were later taken over by the BRD ) while the simple German people lost & got finally broken)
How wonderful I think you must be to have somehow put your thoughts to what must have been a reality to your grandparents as it was to my parents&does it ever seem to stop!? My peers&I born at the end of this war&on to the Korean&'our'wars-Viet Nam through-to-9/11&2desert wars&the world needs yrs of peace for us all&above all people who know these histories&try not to repeat them-
Careful, you may be learning a bunch of lies in brainwashing school.
@@fucku3460 your name fits u well lol
My Uncle Bill was killed in Nazi Germany, 22 days before they surrendered.
I inherited the family farm and sleep in his bedroom.
My grandparents never recovered.
What if?
Well, among his things, still on the bookshelves is an introductory book to Japanese. If he'd survived Europe, he'd have been sent to Asia.
I can see where Ruth gets her positivity from her Dad.
Wouldnt it be amazing if teens could participate in things like this to learn their history instead of going to history class?
I would be a sukker from that and throw myself into learning and will become a history expert!
Would be amazing if their parents would teach them instead of dependent upon the GOVERNMENTS to brainwash their children into fools.
@@fucku3460 Yes, because parents know all this and are capable teachers. There is a reason for teachers! Also there is no guarantee that th eparents would do a good job (overly religious people and "questionable" people fo rexample. All of this would have to be observed and tested by the government, where you can just let them go to school anyway... What you are saying is not really thought through, my friend.
I incorporate this sort of thing into my homeschooling curriculum :)
@@hannahfeldfix8361 Can I be your child? :D I'm alreaddy 22 though...
These Farmers did such a grate Job, working such long hours and also fighting for their Nation . I got such a respect for Farmers.
This episode is freaking riveting!
The fellows are truly in their element, in this episode.
We used our Ford tractor, as kids in the fifties and sixties, the way kids today use quads. It was our real easy to use putt putt..
Gosh my parents farmhouse still has all the war-time linoleum still on the floors today. Some worn a bit, but all still very good!
My granny is from Norfolk, Wells-Next- the-Sea, she was a child during WWII, seeing what these years might have been like is extremely interesting. I’m lucky because I can ask her questions about these times.
I love how they brought in the cows to eat down the grass in the planned wheat field, and then when they use the mole the grass has recently, and obviously been cut with a tractor or mower. 😄 I do truly love the series though, and I imagine they have to speed up their process where they can, to make for good and timely filming.
I'd love to see a "making of" video about these series. I think they'd be very interesting.
Switzerland had to do the same. "Anbauschlacht" Plantingbattle was it called then. every bit of yard was used to grow stuff
It was the same in the USSR and in America, too.
Every single time "Great Leaders" decide it's time to divvy up the earth amongst themselves yet again, the regular folks just trying to get by are always the ones who suffer and have to work even harder just to eat. It was true during the Roman Empire, it was true in the Dark and Middle Ages, it was true during the Great War and WW2, and it's still true now.
Somehow in every political system there's always money to make more weapons and wage more wars... but seldom enough money to feed and care for the people.
I ADORE Ruth. Her enthusiasm. The way she is completely devoted to what she is doing. The way she laughs. Can I adopt her as my grandma?
😂Unless you’re like 5, she isn’t old enough to be your gran.
Oh my, are we going to have more of Peter and the pigs? So precious.
Ruth Goodman in the 20th century? I'm not sure how I feel about that. She's awesome
Orion NAID I adore her. She TRULY goes all in! And the stuff she knows? Good heavens could you imagine what would happen nowadays if they had to do this kind of thing now? Nobody would have a clue!
Her dropping the light bulb was hilarious 😂😂😂
Ruth vs. 21st century, can’t put in a bulb
I mean, Edwardian Farm was also in the 20th century. Which makes me wonder why they didn't just go back to Morewellham Quay and pretend they were the children of their last group of characters.
@@kyleeats5331 No, but she can make gold leaf and has her mark inscribed on at least one stone in a castle going up, so...
9:47 boy...he ducked just in time. Looked like a sketch out of the 3 stooges.
They actually just did that. An old slapstick routine. I love it!
I think you nailed that one😏really cute even if planned
I dont Think it was pland just happend like that 😊
I like how Henry is the 4th member in this season he's almost always in frame
As an experienced farmer, your mole diameter seems to be a little small.
Be careful when hand cranking engines, if the tractor backfires, the crank can break your arm.
I love the old boy at 29:30 hard as nails! Reminds me off my grandfather when we lived with him for a bit on a sheep farm here in Australia. No slacking off or you get a ear full. lol
Did anyone else giggle watching Peter turn with the surveying equipment exactly when Alex bent down, expecting a Laurel and Hardy vaudevillian comedy moment? #Disappointment
Ruth has the best giggle until it becomes a cackle that is absolutely contagious. I am going to enjoy this....again. lol
I love watching or listening to Absolute History playlists.
Ruth is always having such fun. Besides Ruth, Alex and Peter - I congratulate the entire Editorial and Production Team at Absolute History for an absolutely magnificent series. Thank you, all. NEXT ONE>>
My parents grew up during that era in South Africa, first the depression and then the war. The same things applied here, as we were a British colony. They came from a farming community and were able to produce their own food. But things like spares for motor vehicles, tractors and fuel (petrol) was strictly rationed. Tyres were impossible to get. My father told me that they resorted to putting long grass inside the tyres because the were so warn it could not hold air any more. Under wear were made from used flower bags. Clothes were patched and patched again. Tough times. One thing that strikes me is that they had no obesity and diabetes problems in those days. They were fit stong and healthy. Hard times none the less.
Hopefully Britain has continued the farming culture and kept a measure of food independence. All the nations need to do their best to remain food and energy independent as much as is possible.
This is the second time around I'm watching the entirety of the British farm series'. In the last month. That's how good they are.
You're so right. I'm on my third binge watch since March. Luckily my wife also loves it.
6 months later and this is my wife's "go to sleep" medicine. I must have watched or listened to this series 50 times by now and still love it.
It would be a dream come true to join Ruth and the boys on one of their adventures.
you do realize you'd have to work your ass off, right?
There are plenty of jobs that are still very archaic if you want to work your ass off and make Shillings engineering work my ass off doing the same job as people did a few thousand years ago making crack money..... but from the fact that you're fantasizing about a farm I'm going to assume you've never set foot on one because yeah there are plenty of working for him and you could go do lots of things on
@@blabla-rg7ky people who fantasize about hard farming have no concept what working your ass off is and they've never done it a day in their life
Then prepare for waking up before dawn, feed the animals, clean out their living spaces, get dirty, plant, dig, harvest till its done, grow a garden...not always have a bath, eat what is served to you, yea good luck. Its not sitting around on a farm. Its back breaking work.
Wow. Learned something new about myself today: apparantly i'm a hopeless, unrealistic dreamer who in no way knows anything whatsoever about hard work, no income, and so forth. Thank you internet strangers, you know me so well. That being said: I still want to feel on my body and mind and learn first hand what it was like in the time of the generations before me. Yes, i would have had a very, very difficult time, there would be tears of pain and exhaustion, i'd desperatly dream of a hot shower and sweatpants, all of the luxery of our time, and ofcourse there would be several moments where i'd want to quit. Then again, i never said i didnt know just a fraction of what i would be signing up for. You just assumed. 🤯
Really love these historical reenactments it’s like the best way to learn history, a book can only take you so far but it can never put you in the history/situation of events as acting can.
Ruth, Alex, Peter, the narrator and all the other actors are bringing real history alive. It is not just the drivel that we had to learn to advance out of school, it's a look into what real life was like. My wife's family were farmers in Scotland and mine were as well farmers in the Netherlands. My grand father was also in the dutch resistance.
Just recently discovered your channel. Love everything I have watched so far. Thank you!
Lyndsay Wood It IS a great channel, eh? I love it.👍
I love this show. I want to travel to the UK someday so bad! I love the accents, the people, the lifestyle, the values, the beauty of it all and I love the history! I'm from Newfoundland, and we are still a "Dominion" of the Her Majesty The Queen, but we are part of Canada as well.. yeah, I know, confusing. So, my ancestors are from the UK and actually owned an Inn and Farm and about 50 acres of land just about an hour or so outside of London (I Can't remember the name of the actual place at the moment.) but the Inn was called the "Hearts Hearth" and the Farm and land was called "Collins Farm".. It's still out there now and being taken care of by my great aunts and uncles so I HAVE to go out there eventually, hopefully to stay for a few years! Most of the farmland is deep forest, and always had been but now it's even more forested areas because the Farm was always a family farm and not a big production farm, they were there since the 1500's and it is right along the old "king's Road" so I think they just had the Farm and such for the family's survival (also they raised Horses) and eventually used more of the land to build and expand to make the best out of being right on the Kings Road, so they ended up thinking of getting into the hospitality business and built Hearts Hearth, right in front of the Farm Cottage that they lived in and right behind the cottage was the barn/horse stalls/horse field and other small buildings and all around that was about 7 acres of land that had all kind of livestock and veggies and right next to the cottage was the "Family Food". That close little garden patches grew veggies, herbs, fruits and also they had a creepy looking well. These tiny gardens that had survived since the 1500's were the first things that were grown there before expanding. Also, there was A LOT of herb gardens all over the front and back of the cottage, and the only way you would know it was there was from the air obviously, but it was shrouded in trees besides the huge door and now a big sign, but back then it was just a lane you turned in dotted with lamps and the unmistakable "Inn/Farmhouse style" red wooden fences to the left and right of the whole property in the front that let the people traveling know that they were approaching an Inn. So cool. The pictures are so beautiful!!! Also, I'm sure there were some sort of sign back then as well.. but they are very close with the other Farm in town and they were the only in until about a half a day or more out of the way in the direction away from London and I THINK was the last stop before you actually hit London, but it took almost 3 days to reach London after you departed Hearts Hearth, so I bet they made their money back in the day! Later on maybe in the 60's or 70's they went out and actually has a manmade pond that you can swim in made! I'm really close with that side of my family and we write letter all the time. I can't wait to visit them, I really wanted to go there in the early 2000's, but my mother wanted to move to Ireland instead, so we didn't end up going to Hearts Hearth. I was only 12, so I couldn't complain or make the final decision. Now that I'm older, I'm definitely going over there, staying definitely for a year and maybe more and maybe forever if I like it enough and find someone I can start a family with =).. Anyways, sorry about the long post, but this video made me have the feels!
I think this trio is phenomenal no matter what setting they are in. Thank you very much for these spectacular videos. With great appreciation and respect. From Ohio, USA 🇺🇸
i don't do drugs but for an absolute history buff this is my drug of choice, I'm loving this show. To every history buff the biggest disappointment is you can imagine all you like but you will never get to experience it live the history, this is the rare chance to live history id pay to be somebody in a working village from the 1940s
We have to live our own history. Remember to keep notes! :)
You are addicted to many things and do not realize it. Caffeine, petroleum, Internet, and so many conveniences that were they to disappear you would actually have withdrawal symptoms....You are not in a world war but there is plenty to be aware of such as crime (lock your doors), street gangs, terrorists, and even the loss of job looms over us all so we must prepare, be self-sufficient and know how to do the things you are seeing in this video. Most people do not even know how their car engine works!
@@cravinbob Oh! Thank goodness you were in the comment section to tell her that!!! Her admission to addiction wasn’t sufficient it needed someone like you to point it out.
@@cravinbob your addiction must be to explaining obvious things to people who already know such things. Jesus.
I was born in 1950. I've spent my whole life thinking I should've been born at the same time as my dad, 1912: Too young for WWI and too old for WW2 (or at least not likely to be in the front lines.) I would've loved to have been a journalist then, so much history going on all around you.
That surviving auxiliary unit member that is only willing to talk only about his fellow service men that are deceased by now is apparently, what is my guess, still in readiness to get in action shall a need arise, even as of today, even though he's obviously in a very advanced age and so are his companions that are still alive and whom he shall not name. That is a level of dedication and loyalty I can't express enough respect and admiration for.
I bought a Fordson tractor here in the states about 20 years ago. It was a rusted piece of junk that I paid someone 2k USD. At the time I had no idea what I was getting my self into. It was a ~1956 Fordson Power Major. Every single time I need a part it had to come from the UK or I had to drive hundreds of miles to a tractor junkyard to find parts. I did about a 95% restoration on the beast and my younger brother blew out the engine trying to grade a rather large hill in the hill country near Pipe Creek, Texas. It was a labor of love and I spend WELL more that it was ever worth. To this day my wife chastises me for not doing my "homework" on a tractor restoration. That being said, bringing a old piece of machinery back to life was an exciting endeavor and something I would never trade for anything.
12:14 I hope that wasn’t scripted. Peters look was hilarious!
Who else thinks that the dog is one of the cutest things in theses series.
Alex, Ruth, and Peter. Yes!!!!!!! I just can't get enough of these guy. Love 💖 it
after they lived the castle life for a year, i remember thinking 'oh i wish they would do the everyday life of half a dozen average types from ww2, so I'm in heaven here as to I'm sure every experimental archeologist is just as happy to watch this and like me equally disappointed i cant be part of it
The BBC made a number of series about living through WWII that are now on TH-cam. One centers around an older woman and others who remembered how things were and re-created parts of it for a 6-part miniseries, iirc. Another is a w1st Century family living in the conditions of WWII for a month as a family experience/reality show. That one is rough, because none of them is as prepared for the situation as they expected to be. Rather like the pandemic in that regard.
@@mackenziedrake Do you have links for these? I can't seem to find them. TY.
@@indy_go_blue6048 I was thinking of Wartime Kitchen and Garden th-cam.com/video/rLBRK5Tf1I4/w-d-xo.html
and The 1940s House th-cam.com/video/PWZQKbHOuKk/w-d-xo.html
when I commented.
This is also interesting. Turn Back Time: The Family th-cam.com/video/kF3gCcByjm0/w-d-xo.html
You might also enjoy I Was There: WWII th-cam.com/video/rLBRK5Tf1I4/w-d-xo.html
Ruth is a treasure and a very fine teacher in many vids which I have enjoyed from afar.
God Bless the English!
I love these three guys. I am totally hooked. I'm binging both Edwardian and Victorian farming. Please don't stop!
They also have Victorian House and High Street marketing series (High Street aka Turn Back Time playlist -- a new period covered in each video.) They're GREAT!!
Man, this brings back memories of driving my father's Model A Farmall tractor. At least it has a starter!
I absolutely adore the reenactments I have always been a huge fan of the Victorian Era and was really bummed when I ran out of episode until I found these other ones.
I wish they would do this as like a summer camp where people could come and stay a week or a month so the could get the full experience.
I just love how they don't take any shortcuts they arrive in period style transportation, they start from scratch down to setting up the home.
Just wow
Isi can't even begin to say how much I enjoy this series and the crew that was picked to host it spot on ty do much truly appreciated
Here here!! I agree!
Ruth and the lads ARE TRULY AWESOME...History and a large part of my formative years as they really were. Great stuff. Really great.....
It still blows my mind people had to do this, regular citizens ..farmers helping the cause. They risked their lives basically. This is AMAZING! They all did an amazing job!! Wish they still made this show
Just imagine is Ruth was your history teacher in school 🤔🤔🤔
Yes that was be the best class ever❣❣❣ My daughter & I love you Ruth!!
So no love for the boys? Out side busting their guts to put food on the table!!
@@NathanChisholm041 No offense was meant, I'm sure. Tigerz might be female.
We admire the lad's work, and admire the lasses.
Females admire the lasses work, and admire the lads.
In the end, the lasses are still working just as hard as the lads, just in a different way!
Ruth is the queen of these series !
😍📚📚📚📚🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
I believe she does teach
This was fascinating. Thank you.
The kind of series that could be done here in America I would like to be part of would be living during the Colonial/American Revolution times. I love history. Sounds like Britain went through about the same here in America during WWII. I thank all soldiers on both sides of the ocean for their service.
The Townsends TH-cam channel has great videos on American history, if you wanted to check those out!
Peter, Ruth, and Alex are Awesome! Love you all, XOXO!
This guy is such a salt of the earth gentleman farmer. He’s always so kind and knowledgeable.
Omg they got a dog! Yay, Henry!
My great-grandfather enlisted in french-canada at 16 in 1917 and he did his service in the marine escorting Cargo boat to england and back to canada....He reenlisted at the start of ww2 and there's still story in the family of how he used to see boat in his convoy sinking or just to never be seen again. Thousands lost to feed and rearm the allied in GB. The battles were everywhere not just in the farms nor just the trench.
Here after finishing the Edwardian farm series, looking forward to seeing how many things have changed a whole lot!
Holy shit, Ruth's pop made me start laughing immediately, especially with his tip about how to game the system to get more dosh for picking in bad weather!
In my grandparents place they still use paraffin/kerosene stove because it's hard to transport heavy and cumbersome propane tanks to rural area. It's not as hot as propane stove and cooking took considerable time. That's why it's only used to cook quick and simple food like seared fish, fried vegetables and omelettes while for stuff like cooking rice or even boiling water, they still use wood stove
Strange, A Primus kerosene stove burns extremely hot and cooks quickly!
This series does seem a lot more emotionally charged. It's one thing to look at a distant memory of a farm in the 1500's, so far removed from our memory that most people have no idea what it was like, and many details were lost and forgotten. It's a whole other thing to do this with something that exists in our collective - and sometimes personal - memory in details and colours, and is so recent that we can see ourselves in it now.
Love the slapstick comedy at 9:45 Very good!
Remember this is the only one of these series with four hosts: Ruth, Alex, Peter and Henry.
Forgot the narrator
@@drinxs505 ... and all the "background" people. The man enlisting the two men for the auxiliary unit, for example.
31:44 Wow.. never thought of that.. That'd be heartbraking!
Oh my gosh! After binging the castle and the other (Edwardian) farm , I was sad, thought I was done. Then I clicked on this, when it said "for the next year" I was so happy! So entranced by these! I always held a fascination with WWll, looking forward to watching the rest of this season!
love this and the other farm series, i was looking for it on another channel but found this. liked and subbed, hello from Cobourg Ontario Canada
You can tell when theyve *really* planned out the shot not just because of the way it looks but the little gags Peter and Alex seem to throw in. Like Alex ducking *just* in time to not get hit by the tools Peters carrying, or Alex not opening the gate for Peter after hopping over it. Its almost slapstick in a way lol
28:21 oooh, i feel that in my bones! Our tractor isn't as old as that one (iirc something like fifty years old) and has an electric starter, but the sound when changing gears/doing stuff with the clutch is the same! You feel the vibration in your bones before the gears get in position.
Being from america it is quite shocking to feel what was going on. i wasnt even borned close to that time and i guess pretty spoiled. I hear my grandma and grandpa talking about it in their times when i was so young. it was quite hard in its own right. ty for showing how it was in war so close to where you are. still so hard as in victorian times and edwardian times but there are easier things and gadgets.. ty for bringing it all as it was. ty and Hi Peter
I remember when the current war broke out I thought we’d have the types of rationing as they had back then
Of course I was only 6 and had just learned about WWII
This is now one of my alltime favorit channals!
Found it just recently and I absolutly love it!
Cheers guys, thanks for this content!
@Celto Loco Yes, ofc! Cheers
52:28 She better not use margarine while frying bacon, bacon is best fried on a "dry" pan.
BTW. Bananabacon is delicious.
I like to bake bacon, less mess and an even doneness.
@@cravinbob
Microwave! Fast and even less messy.
Cast iron all the way.
This is like a film, a produt that show what happeend a long of history. I'm not britain, but I think this is so much good! Much better that tv's shows without reallity and consistence. Thank you so very much! Congratulations for this kind of show!
I love Ruth, she’s such a beautiful soul!
The annoyance on Peter's face at 12:16 is the biggest mood.
''in this field, they are to grow wheat, used to grow *disgusted: BREAD*'' that killed me for some reason. YES!
What? are you allergic to wheat gluten?
@@ThatClassic70sGirl That's what was said in the Video
I don’t know if it’s just me, but hearing that radio broadcast about declaring war, and knowing what was to come....it made me so upset.
Yes. InterNazionsl - InterNazi Britain and France declared war on Nazional - Nazi Germany and started WW2 in Europe. Former Britain deserved her fate. Now former Britain lost almost all industry and is poor Islamic country.
It’s interesting how people were what used to be called “jacks of all trades”-able to do a bit of anything, as shown by the guys doing the surveying and draining etc. Of course Ruth is always ready to give anything a go. Then there’s machinery repair, blacksmithing of a common sort. You had a go at things yourself, maybe asked a neighbouring farmer or an older person for advice, and you had to be really stumped to call in paid experts.
Of course in war time, most professionals were called up and there skills used by the Forces. I imagine surveyors and mechanics were in great demand.
However there’s always been a tradition for rural people, specially, to go it alone. Working class people in the suburbs might try mechanical repairs or house improvements, but it was more of a hobby. I’m Australian and so it’s even more intrinsic to our country way of life. If a vital piece of machinery broke, you couldn’t get a new part delivered in two hours by drone, or even overnight. It took days, and then you had to go to town or the railway station to collect it. That meant days lost, maybe harvests or shearing spoiled. So, no $$$ If you’re half a days ride from your nearest neighbour or town, and days away from city services, you have to be inventive and determined!
I love watching these shows.
I’ve seen a few of these & am just now realizing that these are the same people & that this is a series.
I want the box set.
Ruth has an infectious JOY in all she does. I want to be her neighbor, best friend, and sneaky caffeine provider when she's living in a bygone era.
As a Ukrainian in 2022, I find this series extremely relevant.
If only it could become relevant for the Russians too
Though at this point I think it’s time to negotiate peace
@@jonathanwilliams1065 then go to russia. And stay there, you seem to love their dictator and their way of war.
@@jonathanwilliams1065
*It's about high time for Russia to back off into their own country and stay there.
There, corrected your stupid drivel.
@@RuSosan maybe if Ukraine had the balls to strike in the northeast instead of abandoning the Russian defector units
@@jonathanwilliams1065
Maybe _you_ ought to remain quiet about what Ukraine "should and shouldn't do" when Russia is the only party at fault.
The Brits were absolutely amazing for what they did while being bombed by the Germans. My hat is off to every single one of them. Truly mind blowing!
I love the adventures of these three. Victorian Britain and Edwardian Britain, and I'm curious about this series as well, but I'm finding it challenging to watch because my Opa (grandpa) fought in this war. For Germany. He was captured and held in a Jewish concentration camp. The whole situation makes me want to cry. 😬😥
Fought for Germany and was in a Jewish concentration camp? As a prisoner? Then he did something that totally pissed off the Nazi powers-that-be so be proud of him (if I understand you correctly.)
I’m sorry it’s so difficult for you but I agree with the other commenter. Your Opa must really, really, have offended the Nazi powers. So be proud. I’m Australian, with German ancestors a few generations back. I’ve found a past relative was a Panzer captain. Not an ancestor, but it’s not a big family chain so maybe a second or third cousin twice removed- or something. I’ve yet to research it.
But I’m weirdly proud of him. He was famous, there were comic books and news reel movies about him. He only joined the Nazi Party after the war started, so I’m assuming it was a condition of his captaincy. He was so respected, England and Canada still argue over which one of them managed to destroy his tank, in 1945. He did some very brave things, and got into trouble for them because they “weren’t authorised” although it’s possible he was gunning at my grandfather’s unit sometimes in France.
I try just to acknowledge that any war is a tragedy for everyone, and many many brave and pitiful people had their lives destroyed or ruined. My grandfather did, as he returned with injuries that disabled him until his death. His children never again had a healthy father. My other grandfather, the one who was the connecting relative, meanwhile was in a reserved occupation here, working for the war effort!
I want to cry when I see them listening to the announcement on the radio, knowing what’s ahead. It has that effect on me every time. Imagine being a woman like Ruth then. You’d lost brothers, boyfriends, maybe husbands and fathers in the First World War, and now they knew they had to send their sons to fight.
The best respect and reverence we can give is to never have it happen again. Which in March, 2022 seems a lost hope.
@@indy_go_blue6048 he may have joined the army to blend it
Better to risk a Russian bullet than board a boxcar to the gas chamber
26:00: Yes increased production depends on increased mechanical power as opposed to animal power because machines don't need to rest --- but on the other hand, horses don't need hard-to-find repair parts to fix them when they break down --- ever think of that?
They wouldn't have been hard to find repair parts. They would have been produced en mass as these were the tractors everyone was using at the time 🙃
i absolutely love henry, nothing bad better ever happen to him
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I’m not gonna lie; Peter excites me to new heights ☺️🥴
Did you see him in the season with the pigs and aiding the north of lambs? Peter and and the pigs is adorable.
9:46 nice old school gag there, boys.
Ruth is a trooper.brilliant series
34:55 So Ruth just brought her entire family on, three generations.
I love how the snouts on the pigs look