Definitely. Love the bbc shows she is in: Victorian farm, Victorian pharmacy, Edwardian farm, war time farm, tudor monetary farm, secrets of the castle. She is just so easy to listen to.
when I saw that historyextra just uploaded a NEW clip with Ruth Goodman 11 minutes ago and I literally went "YESSSSSSS"! I love her, please upload more!!! Thank you!!
To the point that she keeps long dirty nails when preparing food in the old ways. I can't believe that anyone cooking back in the olden days would be able to maintain long nails, which is just as well given the amount of debris that quickly would collect under them.
I had some pretty good history teachers in SE Pennsylvania in the 1960s. One later became a battlefield guide for groups at Gettysburg. Most of our family vacations involved visits to US battlefields and Revolutionary War sites like Valley Forge and Ft. Ticonderoga. Another teacher taught us world cultures and I gained a basic understanding of the Russian Romanovs and the revolution. Today I have a fine arts in painting BFA and an M. Ed. in art, and am an amateur Russian history, art and culture buff. I have even been to St. Petersburg which was a dream come true. We could never return now -- the political situation is too dicey. I got to see the reconstructed Amber Room in the Catherine Palace which was one of my bucket list goals. It was drop dead gorgeous -- a room just shimmering and glowing with sparkling amber. Wow!
@@virginiasoskin9082 At school we had crusty old teachers and dusty old textbook's and half the time the teacher was droning on about the middle age or the tudors and i'd be more interest in what was going on out of the window. Fast forward to now and i have learnt more in the last few years than i ever did at school thanks to the internet. Watch a series like Tudors or the film Elizabeth and i'm glued to it and taking it all in while learning about our history. Pick ANY topic and you can teach yourself what ever you want to learn about. I love it.
Semmelweis was the doctor who observed that in the maternity hospital. However, he was discredited and eventually ended up in an insane asylum where he died from the very infection that he fought so hard to irradicate through hand washing. Fascinating guy!
75 years until doctors started to follow his recommendations, and washing hands as Dr. Ignaz Semmelweis discovered would help birthing women and patients survive.
My grandma has two bars of soap in her kitchen. Ivory for hand and dish washing, and carbolic soap for counters, floors, and anything that touched raw ingredients (knives, cutting boards, spatula, pots, pans). It's a very distinct smell.
I think a problem getting germ theory off the ground was that there was so much slight tangential evidence that the bad-smells theory was accurate, since removing foul-smelling things from patients (such as filthy dressings or oozing pus) actually could make them better - just not for the reasons people thought.
Had JUST finished the Victorian schools episode, and I saw that this was just released! Really appreciate how Ruth Goodman is very keen to put the credit where it is due: the everyday people.
She is such a wonderful speaker. Fantastic to watch. The setting is fantastic too. More of this, please! ❤ Edit: I still use carbolic soap at home. It’s the only thing that works for my dermatitis. The old household green soap is still available too (though less hard than it used to be) and it’s perfect for a whole number of cleaning jobs.
As a university professor, I watched this video while searching for another subject about Victorian times. The video, "How Clean Were the Victorians?" by Ruth Goodman, was suggested by an algorithm. Ruth's lecture is excellent! She is knowledgeable, easy to listen to, explains everything well, and is enjoyable to watch. I became very interested in her sharing and teaching style. I really loved listening to her explanations. She should have her own TV show, "History with Ruth Goodman." If she doesn't already, I highly suggest it.
Snow's story was told in the PBS show Victoria. No other doctor could figure it out. Victoria called him in and listened to him and he was the doctor that sloved the outbreak
Even as an American, I learned about Dr. John Snow in the mid 2000s in middle school (11-12 y/o-ish), and how he proved a cause and effect for those suffering from the 1854 Cholera outbreak.
@@BacktheBlue60 hi! You can see more from Ruth in our HistoryExtra Academy course, which these are extracts from. You can sign up to watch it all at HistoryExtra.com!
Fascinating, just love your clip Ruth. The bit about the life expectancy being extended was a big point, because families and children especially, would have benefited from having their parents to care for them for a further 10 years. The impact of that alone must have improved their lives. I realize life would still have been a struggle, but without an adult available to look after a child....it would have been a death sentence for the child too.
You are falling victim to a common misconception about life expectancy. It wasn't that you were considered 'old' at 37 or 46 or anything like that. Obesity epidemic aside, you wouldn't likely be in as good of health as a modern middle aged person, but you wouldn't have one foot the the grave either. You would have been considered old at between 60 and 70 for most of human history regardless of what average life expectancy was at the time. Life expectancy was low because a huge percentage of deaths were kids. For a lot of human history, surviving to your first birthday was pretty much a coin flip, then you got to flip it again to see if you died before your 10th birthday. This is why hygiene was so critical to getting that number up. A lot of bigtime kid killers like diarrhea due to bacteria stop happening when you start using disinfectants. Then we figured out vaccinations and antibiotics for all the major killers like smallpox, measals, polio, diphtheria, tuberculosis and all those other killers and that basically brought us to the life expectancy we have today.
Excellent video. When we visited the Bronte parsonage in Haworth, England, we saw that the house overlooked the ancient graveyard and church where Patrick Bronte was minister. I believe that the Bronte girls died of tainted water due to the wooden caskets in the cemetery placed in the ground without extra encasing, which allowed body fluids to leach into the water supply and flow downhill (the parsonage is at the top of the village). Now, interestingly, when I went into the modern day loo for tourists at the parsonage, a sign over the sink said, "This water is safe for washing hands but DO NOT DRINK IT!" I thought, my word, they are still having trouble with tainted water supplies from that cemetery or elsewhere. No wonder they all died so young except for Patrick who, I think, outlived most of his children. I also know that one of Abraham Lincoln's sons died in the White House of typhoid, I think. Back in the 1860s, Washington was a very small city, with unpaved dirty/muddy streets, and laid out on a swamp next to the Potomac River into which human waste made its way. Mosquitoes in the swamp would give people malaria. The river was probably the drinking water supply for all, including the White House, and no wonder people died like flies from drinking germ-laden water. It was so dangerous. Finally once city water in American towns and cities was secured in pipes and treated, these diseases died off. Sometimes it would seem fun to go back in time and live for awhile in the 1860s or 1880s; I think many of us could do it except for the lack of time and labor saving appliances and the lack of modern day medical care. I know how to cook on a big woodstove, sew by hand, make clothes and quilts, braid rugs, dry vegetables for later use, etc. But I would not be prepared for the constant scrubbing of floors, clothes, heating water to bathe or wash clothes, and so forth. The series 1900 House gave an excellent idea of what Victorian life was like in England. I remember the inhabitants taking apart the iron bedsteads for spring housecleaning to get into every nook and cranny with carbolic soap or whatever they used. It was a huge job, very labor intensive. I remember as a little girl in the 1950s, we had feather bed pillows. In spring my mom would open up all the pillows and WASH THE FEATHERS. Then she took our large window screens we used on the windows in summertime, and placed the feathers between those screens to air dry in the sunshine. Then she would restuff the pillows and sew them shut. Polio and other diseases like whooping cough were still scourges, and a boy next door got polio, so perhaps this was mother's effort to deep clean everything in the house that she could. She was a Pennsylvania German housewife so she was a pretty meticulous housekeeper and taught most of her skills to me.
@@cecilefox9136 I suppose that was my mother's rationale. But we kids got every cold and cough that came down the pike in our early school years, so I think she was also trying to rid the feathers of germs at least once a year perhaps in April or May after all the illnesses of winter.
I just spent over 2 hours boiling enough water to have a decent bath. (Our on-demand hot water heater went out on NYD). That was a chore that I am glad I won't have to do for long. 😊
I love Ruth. I could just listen to her go on and on about history for hours. She always finds something interesting to talk about. And things that are not interesting, she makes them interesting.
It is interesting to imagine cleanliness in pre-Victorian times. I've had to do this as a fantasy writer, and it makes you think hard about how much we take germ theory for granted these days.
Miasma theory of disease was an important step towards understanding how disease spreads. It genuinely helped reduce disease transmission even if it wasn’t exactly scientifically accurate. Reducing the source of bad smells coincidentally also worked to reduce the germs available to infect people.
Me too. We barely learned about the last 200 years of American history. I have been spellbound and totally immersed in European history. Studying French for a couple years. Ugh it's so hard to learn a different language. But I just like to learn . Keep my mind busy. Not exactly into crushing pretend candy, lol. But more power to those who enjoy that stuff. Each to their own, I say.
@ginalisenby9668 did you watch the Victorian and Edwardian farm series? I think you’d really enjoy it if you haven’t seen it already. Like you, I just love learning things- except mathematics. I don’t think I’ll ever develop a love for that.
@Sissa0xO no but I definitely will Need something on these long winter days. Watching the crown on Netflix, again. But I'll check out some videos later. Thank you so much and happy new year 🎉
See how much folk luv u Ruth and how highly ur thought of !!! Ur a wonderful lady…so well educated and informative..Please keep doing ur programmes.Thanku.All the best for 2025.xcx🩷🏴🙏🌸
Ruth Goodman in a robe, looking as though she might be getting ready to go to bed… kept me absolutely spellbound through the entire video. She is a mastermind in entrancing her listeners/viewers in her teachings all the while illustrating with her inflection and enthralling words a tapestry perfectly depicting her talking points. I could listen to her speak for hours, filling my mind with knowledge and history I otherwise would never have. God bless her. We adore you Ruth!!
Always learn something new from Mrs. Goodman. I knew about Florence how she cleaned that rat infested hospital in Istanbul, but didn't know she hadn't learned about germs yet. I knew about Snow his maps, and how he located which water pumps as the sources, but didn't know about the brewers.
How many people could stand centre stage and hold everyone spellbound for as long as Ruth Goodman? A brilliant historian.
42.
I love Ruth Goodman! 🎉
Definitely. Love the bbc shows she is in: Victorian farm, Victorian pharmacy, Edwardian farm, war time farm, tudor monetary farm, secrets of the castle. She is just so easy to listen to.
Ruth Goodman and Lucy Worsley docs are my faves
@@SusanPearce_Hhahahahaha!!!
I see Ruth Goodman, I click like! Love her!
@@authormichellefranklin Same, I wish she had her own channel! The way I would binge watch...
@@CrashBoomBang78 well said
She really does have a gift.
S A M E. She’s a vibe!!! ❤❤❤
Ruth Goodman needs her own channel!
💯!!
Absolutely!
wish i could hit the like button multiple times
Omg yes! I agree!
I wonder if Ruth realizes just how many ardent fans she has. :) WE LOVE YOU RUTH.
I could listen to Ruth Goodman ALL DAY.
She has a podcast!! It’s called “the curious history of your home”. I binge listened to it all and I will happily start over again ❤
One to add to the list for anyone who doesn’t know about it!
Same
@@TinkavdHazel OMG! You've made my year! Thanks for this!
@@TinkavdHazel
Thank you I’ll watch that.
Let me just say, I’m so grateful for my washer and dryer, my dishwasher, and running water!! Life was so tough in old times.
And don’t forget flush toilets!
@ Right! Oops! I’m grateful for flush toilets!!
Same so grateful for flushing toilet / shower and washing machine ! Don’t own dishwasher or dryer as can’t fit it 😅😂
@@sarahmc8309 I wish for you to own someday. My son doesn’t either. He is renting.
@@Pkeats817more than one in a house. How did we manage with one outside loo per family, which is what we had until I was about 10.
when I saw that historyextra just uploaded a NEW clip with Ruth Goodman 11 minutes ago and I literally went "YESSSSSSS"! I love her, please upload more!!! Thank you!!
Me too! It fleeted across my mind that we should somehow kidnap her and have her make videos about every day of history! (joking) I love her so much 😂
@gonnabeayogi1445 🤣😁✨
me too!
Ikr
She's tenacious and brilliant!
I have been watching videos with Ruth Goodman for 15 years, and over time, she has become sort of an idol to me.
You're not alone in that opinion. We've always got time for Ruth!
I fell into a rabbit hole of Ruth Goodman videos and I can't get enough!
Me too!
I adore Ruth and this series. I could listen to her talk all night long. So deeply knowledgeable and passionate. Thank you for making these.
99% of the comments are about how amazing is the narrator. I hope she sees it ! As a non native English speaker I find her very easy to understand 🥰
And the comments aren't fake at all! (side eye)
I love how she is so unaffected by the trends of style, make-up and cosmetics, so refreshing!
To the point that she keeps long dirty nails when preparing food in the old ways. I can't believe that anyone cooking back in the olden days would be able to maintain long nails, which is just as well given the amount of debris that quickly would collect under them.
@@Thepourdeuxchansonwhat are you talking about hahaha
Ruth, you are such an incredible teacher. Bringing history alive, with passion and humor, keeps me coming back.
But why is she wearing a bed quilt?
@@MsMesemWhy would what she is wearing matter. We are here for the historical knowledge she is sharing.
Why doesn't Ruth have her very own TH-cam channel? She's my favorite historian. I would happily listen to any lecture she chooses to give!
Why were my teachers at school never as interesting as our Ruth. I'd have paid a lot more attention.
My history teacher was amazing.
I had some pretty good history teachers in SE Pennsylvania in the 1960s. One later became a battlefield guide for groups at Gettysburg. Most of our family vacations involved visits to US battlefields and Revolutionary War sites like Valley Forge and Ft. Ticonderoga. Another teacher taught us world cultures and I gained a basic understanding of the Russian Romanovs and the revolution. Today I have a fine arts in painting BFA and an M. Ed. in art, and am an amateur Russian history, art and culture buff. I have even been to St. Petersburg which was a dream come true. We could never return now -- the political situation is too dicey. I got to see the reconstructed Amber Room in the Catherine Palace which was one of my bucket list goals. It was drop dead gorgeous -- a room just shimmering and glowing with sparkling amber. Wow!
A sense of drama and good oration skills definitely go a long way.
@@virginiasoskin9082 At school we had crusty old teachers and dusty old textbook's and half the time the teacher was droning on about the middle age or the tudors and i'd be more interest in what was going on out of the window. Fast forward to now and i have learnt more in the last few years than i ever did at school thanks to the internet. Watch a series like Tudors or the film Elizabeth and i'm glued to it and taking it all in while learning about our history. Pick ANY topic and you can teach yourself what ever you want to learn about. I love it.
They aren't paid enough.
The more I watch of Ruth the more I’m convinced she needs another full length show. Just love her
Semmelweis was the doctor who observed that in the maternity hospital. However, he was discredited and eventually ended up in an insane asylum where he died from the very infection that he fought so hard to irradicate through hand washing. Fascinating guy!
75 years until doctors started to follow his recommendations, and washing hands as
Dr. Ignaz Semmelweis discovered would help birthing women and patients survive.
I LOVE Ruth Goodman. Everything that I come across with her in it I thoroughly enjoy. MORE RUTH GOODMAN PLEASE!!!!!
My grandma has two bars of soap in her kitchen. Ivory for hand and dish washing, and carbolic soap for counters, floors, and anything that touched raw ingredients (knives, cutting boards, spatula, pots, pans). It's a very distinct smell.
My grandma was from Ireland and she 2 had two sopes in the bath.
I could listen to Ruth talk about any history. Not many people bring her level of passion and storytelling to the table. ❤
Ruth Goodman is THE REASON I subscribed to this channel! I hope she continues to make more videos on Victorian life! 💖
I like anything with Ruth Goodman.
I think a problem getting germ theory off the ground was that there was so much slight tangential evidence that the bad-smells theory was accurate, since removing foul-smelling things from patients (such as filthy dressings or oozing pus) actually could make them better - just not for the reasons people thought.
Ruth is amazing. She keeps things real and is a genuine a person you would ever wish to meet
Had JUST finished the Victorian schools episode, and I saw that this was just released! Really appreciate how Ruth Goodman is very keen to put the credit where it is due: the everyday people.
What are these episodes you mention? Are they hosted by Ruth? Where can we find them?
Cleanliness and keeping away from bad smells is just a human nature thing, so glad we got into germ theory!! Really helped us out!
And yet, swaths of people did not accept Germ /viral theory in 2020, and others paid for their willful ignorance.
Please do an explanation of women as household managers, and the economy of the household.
She has a very comforting voice.
Such knowledge this woman has. I love Ruth Goodman I could listen to her for hours
Ruth Goodman is a treasure!!!❤❤
Ruth Goodman could read the phone book and I would still click the clicky thing as soon as I get the alert
She is such a wonderful speaker. Fantastic to watch. The setting is fantastic too. More of this, please! ❤
Edit: I still use carbolic soap at home. It’s the only thing that works for my dermatitis. The old household green soap is still available too (though less hard than it used to be) and it’s perfect for a whole number of cleaning jobs.
As a university professor, I watched this video while searching for another subject about Victorian times. The video, "How Clean Were the Victorians?" by Ruth Goodman, was suggested by an algorithm. Ruth's lecture is excellent! She is knowledgeable, easy to listen to, explains everything well, and is enjoyable to watch. I became very interested in her sharing and teaching style. I really loved listening to her explanations. She should have her own TV show, "History with Ruth Goodman." If she doesn't already, I highly suggest it.
She has several TV shows so not sure if you are joking or not??
@@LisaEichler-Johnsondoes she? I don’t think they are in my country. Can you tell me more?
Okay I’ll admit it I love Ruth Goodman, she goes into history with a passion 😊
Snow's story was told in the PBS show Victoria. No other doctor could figure it out. Victoria called him in and listened to him and he was the doctor that sloved the outbreak
Welcom to the stage!!! Ruuuuuuth Gooooooodman!!!!! Bad ass historian & Educator to all!!!!! ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Ruth's farm series remains some of the best historical content, I've yet to find better as regards to social history
Glad you're enjoying it, Ian! We aim to please.
I love Ruth Goodman and her presentation style!
Even as an American, I learned about Dr. John Snow in the mid 2000s in middle school (11-12 y/o-ish), and how he proved a cause and effect for those suffering from the 1854 Cholera outbreak.
I just burst out laughing when I heard that name. You know... a lot, Jon snow XD
This series is FASCINATING and it is all owed to Ruth Goodman. She is so interesting to listen to and watch!
I wish these videos were 3 times longer. I absolutely adore Ruth Goodman ❤
@@BacktheBlue60 hi! You can see more from Ruth in our HistoryExtra Academy course, which these are extracts from. You can sign up to watch it all at HistoryExtra.com!
Ruth is so good at her job.
Fascinating, just love your clip Ruth. The bit about the life expectancy being extended was a big point, because families and children especially, would have benefited from having their parents to care for them for a further 10 years. The impact of that alone must have improved their lives. I realize life would still have been a struggle, but without an adult available to look after a child....it would have been a death sentence for the child too.
You are falling victim to a common misconception about life expectancy. It wasn't that you were considered 'old' at 37 or 46 or anything like that. Obesity epidemic aside, you wouldn't likely be in as good of health as a modern middle aged person, but you wouldn't have one foot the the grave either. You would have been considered old at between 60 and 70 for most of human history regardless of what average life expectancy was at the time.
Life expectancy was low because a huge percentage of deaths were kids. For a lot of human history, surviving to your first birthday was pretty much a coin flip, then you got to flip it again to see if you died before your 10th birthday. This is why hygiene was so critical to getting that number up. A lot of bigtime kid killers like diarrhea due to bacteria stop happening when you start using disinfectants. Then we figured out vaccinations and antibiotics for all the major killers like smallpox, measals, polio, diphtheria, tuberculosis and all those other killers and that basically brought us to the life expectancy we have today.
Ruth Goodman! AAAAAALRIGHT! This evening just got good!
Excellent video. When we visited the Bronte parsonage in Haworth, England, we saw that the house overlooked the ancient graveyard and church where Patrick Bronte was minister. I believe that the Bronte girls died of tainted water due to the wooden caskets in the cemetery placed in the ground without extra encasing, which allowed body fluids to leach into the water supply and flow downhill (the parsonage is at the top of the village). Now, interestingly, when I went into the modern day loo for tourists at the parsonage, a sign over the sink said, "This water is safe for washing hands but DO NOT DRINK IT!" I thought, my word, they are still having trouble with tainted water supplies from that cemetery or elsewhere. No wonder they all died so young except for Patrick who, I think, outlived most of his children. I also know that one of Abraham Lincoln's sons died in the White House of typhoid, I think. Back in the 1860s, Washington was a very small city, with unpaved dirty/muddy streets, and laid out on a swamp next to the Potomac River into which human waste made its way. Mosquitoes in the swamp would give people malaria. The river was probably the drinking water supply for all, including the White House, and no wonder people died like flies from drinking germ-laden water. It was so dangerous. Finally once city water in American towns and cities was secured in pipes and treated, these diseases died off. Sometimes it would seem fun to go back in time and live for awhile in the 1860s or 1880s; I think many of us could do it except for the lack of time and labor saving appliances and the lack of modern day medical care. I know how to cook on a big woodstove, sew by hand, make clothes and quilts, braid rugs, dry vegetables for later use, etc. But I would not be prepared for the constant scrubbing of floors, clothes, heating water to bathe or wash clothes, and so forth. The series 1900 House gave an excellent idea of what Victorian life was like in England. I remember the inhabitants taking apart the iron bedsteads for spring housecleaning to get into every nook and cranny with carbolic soap or whatever they used. It was a huge job, very labor intensive. I remember as a little girl in the 1950s, we had feather bed pillows. In spring my mom would open up all the pillows and WASH THE FEATHERS. Then she took our large window screens we used on the windows in summertime, and placed the feathers between those screens to air dry in the sunshine. Then she would restuff the pillows and sew them shut. Polio and other diseases like whooping cough were still scourges, and a boy next door got polio, so perhaps this was mother's effort to deep clean everything in the house that she could. She was a Pennsylvania German housewife so she was a pretty meticulous housekeeper and taught most of her skills to me.
Important to get rid of the unpleasant smell un- washed feather pillows have!
@@cecilefox9136 I suppose that was my mother's rationale. But we kids got every cold and cough that came down the pike in our early school years, so I think she was also trying to rid the feathers of germs at least once a year perhaps in April or May after all the illnesses of winter.
how passionate is she? love to see people who are in love with their jobs
We need more Ruth! Some of the best TV has her in it.
I just spent over 2 hours boiling enough water to have a decent bath. (Our on-demand hot water heater went out on NYD). That was a chore that I am glad I won't have to do for long. 😊
More Ruth Goodman pls! ❤❤❤
Ruth really takes you back to the Victorian era. ❤
"hi, im ruth goodman, and im the queen of everything"
is what she should be saying. cos she is.
I think she’s too humble to think or say such a thing 🙂
Thank you Ruth Goodman 🙏
Ruth, you are just the best😊💕
I do like Ruth. I got all the Farm series on DVD, I got Full Steam Ahead and Victorian Pharmacy on DVD too!
Wait!….What!…..you can get Ruth on dvds?
Excellent production Ruth❣️🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
I love Ruth. I could just listen to her go on and on about history for hours. She always finds something interesting to talk about. And things that are not interesting, she makes them interesting.
It’s a very special skill she has! A true expert.
It is interesting to imagine cleanliness in pre-Victorian times. I've had to do this as a fantasy writer, and it makes you think hard about how much we take germ theory for granted these days.
Miasma theory of disease was an important step towards understanding how disease spreads. It genuinely helped reduce disease transmission even if it wasn’t exactly scientifically accurate. Reducing the source of bad smells coincidentally also worked to reduce the germs available to infect people.
Yay! Ruth is such an incredibly talented teacher and presenter!!!! More Ruth, please!!!
We all love and have missed you soooooo much Ruth!!! We want and need more of her in our lives!!! She is such a treasure!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️
I could listen to her all day! Ruth's voice is just soothing.
2:41 Ruth Goodman is a time traveler. Being a historian is the perfect cover story. It all makes sense now, Ruth 😂
Brilliant! I wouldn’t be the least bit surprised. 😉
I love that TH-cam is finally serving me any video that has Ruth Goodman in it. Wherever Ruth goes, I will follow.
Love you, you`re so good at making history exciting , Thank you ❤
I would have excelled in school had Ruth Goodman been my teacher. I love listening to her.
Me too. We barely learned about the last 200 years of American history. I have been spellbound and totally immersed in European history. Studying French for a couple years. Ugh it's so hard to learn a different language. But I just like to learn . Keep my mind busy. Not exactly into crushing pretend candy, lol. But more power to those who enjoy that stuff. Each to their own, I say.
@ginalisenby9668 did you watch the Victorian and Edwardian farm series? I think you’d really enjoy it if you haven’t seen it already. Like you, I just love learning things- except mathematics. I don’t think I’ll ever develop a love for that.
@Sissa0xO no but I definitely will
Need something on these long winter days. Watching the crown on Netflix, again. But I'll check out some videos later. Thank you so much and happy new year 🎉
@@ginalisenby9668 happy new year to you too 🎉
Carbolic soap was always on the sinks in the school toilets in primary school!
I want Ruth Goodman to explain the world to me. how amazing can a person be? not surprise to see in the comments that she has a fan base...
Merry Xmas Ruth and have a happy new year .🎉
And the very same to you, Elaine! 🎄 🎁
Christmas, not xmas
Wow looking to that. Happy Christmas 🌲 Ruth
Ruth Goodman is amazing, I am in love with this woman's knowledge, more Ruth!
Ruth Goodman, I could listen to you all day
Love every video Ruth puts out. Her delivery and content are always superb!
See how much folk luv u Ruth and how highly ur thought of !!!
Ur a wonderful lady…so well educated and informative..Please keep doing ur programmes.Thanku.All the best for 2025.xcx🩷🏴🙏🌸
I wish so much she might read your comment, I agree with you!
Ruth is my favorite historian!
So pleased to hear it! We can certainly see why.
This was filmed at my local museum, I'm pleased to say
So happy to see another Ruth episode! Please keep them coming! The Victorian era is fascinating. 😊
Yes, It's Ruth! Love her so much! We need more videos with her.
Been a fan since "Tales from the green valley." I'm in for anything Ruth does. Great job Ruth!
I enjoy her exposition. I can hear her all day .I love history.
Instant click whenever I see a new Ruth Goodman video!
A great practice to live by!
Another fascinating video in the series and engagingly presented by Ruth Goodman - thanks!!
Ruth Goodman in a robe, looking as though she might be getting ready to go to bed… kept me absolutely spellbound through the entire video. She is a mastermind in entrancing her listeners/viewers in her teachings all the while illustrating with her inflection and enthralling words a tapestry perfectly depicting her talking points. I could listen to her speak for hours, filling my mind with knowledge and history I otherwise would never have. God bless her. We adore you Ruth!!
I love Ruth Goodman. More of this please!😊
This woman needs her own youtube channel asap
Love Ruth she tells the story without droning on! Also love what she is wearing
Thank you Ruth, your delivery of historical information is always so interesting.
Love Ruth, so good at explaining! Next please!
Hi Ruth, always loved your delivery style.
I would not survive this world without Ruth Goodman.
I thought , you're gonna say that you cant live without running water and electricity 😅
Always learn something new from Mrs. Goodman. I knew about Florence how she cleaned that rat infested hospital in Istanbul, but didn't know she hadn't learned about germs yet. I knew about Snow his maps, and how he located which water pumps as the sources, but didn't know about the brewers.
Hope you had a merry Christmas ruth and hope you have a very happy new year. Love your shows ❤
Ruth Goodman is my favourite and my best.
Luv Ruth.Such a clever lady 🌸
This lady is delightful to learn from!
I don't even have to watch a video to know that Ruth Goodman will give the best historical facts in an engaging way. I love love love Ruth Goodman.
Thank you! That was interesting!
I love you, Ruth! ❤
Ruth Goodman is really spellbinding to listen too.
Keep it up Ruth ❤
Ruth Goodman continues to do her job. i do really like her presentation skills and expertise as a female presenter of history
I'm late I had to grocery shop! Hi Ruth! You are the best