I've learned so much in this series, from Ruth in particular. She's taught me I need to steam my oven to get my bread to rise, to make melomel from my parents overripe garden peaches instead of throwing them out, to put my starter under the same peach tree to supercharge my yeast, and so much more. I even roast my hotdogs and marshmallows in front of instead of over the fire now. My mom used to think I was nuts: now if I make a cooking or baking suggestion she asks if it's a medieval farm thing, and then just does it.
I hand it to all 4starting from the green valley-to the 4th person; all the farm series are good but Ruth does it so believably(Colin in this one&wartime is my fav know it best)
And so my crush on Ruth continues, what an incredible woman! As a historian myself her enthusiasm towards history and learning fills me with great hope for humanity.
Isn’t this an amazing series?? I was born in England but have lived in Australia since I was a child, so this series is helping me to see in immeasurable ways, the differing cultures as well as how my foremothers and fathers lived! By watching my contemporaries perform the tasks performed a few hundred years ago, I feel like I’m reconnecting with my ancestors! If only we could learn from history!! I agree wholeheartedly, Jahosephat!!!
I recently found these series a few months back and Ive been excited whenever i see one with Ruth . He energy radiates and the way she throws herself into what she does. Great person!
For me, it's Peter. He's knowledgeable about the old tech with a great, wry sense of humor, always willing to "get stuck in" as they say and seemingly a very sweet, gentle, kind man. He's usually the dirtiest one on the set because he doesn't seem to hold anything back just like a little boy at play. In other series, he's always the one to do the heavy lifting. His work on the "alarm" clock in a previous episode is amusing. He goofed something up and the spring unwound in a few seconds. Zing! Oops! The look on his face .... These series are a wonderful look into history. I love history and BBC documentaries are chock full of the best. These series are great because the have useful information in them like different edible weeds, herbs to chase off bugs, cooking tips and much more. I think I've seen all of these different series, but I keep my eyes open hoping for more!
@@raventoocute3006 she's cheerful and smily even when doing the nastiest of tasks - which reads STOIC on one level, and just a delightful human on another.
I wouldn’t call her stoic but shes def unflappable she seems like she can handle anything with a smile or find it lovely, it was fun to see her with the eel
She's so into everything she does, it's a real joy to watch. I doubt anyone could make me interested in the multiday process of doing laundry on a victorian farm, but then Ruth comes along...
It is sad to think that Tom, Peter and Ruth probably traveled between the various locations shown in these videos by getting on the motorway and being stuck in traffic. The directors have done a good job of making it seem as though the modern world didn't exist, and I daresay that couldn't have been very easy!
Finding a suitable blocking shot may be tricky, but once you have it you have it. The real problem with period productions is sound, because it can change constantly. Jet Overflights, nearby highways (horns) or, when they filmed Edwardian which was abutted by working farms, heavy machinery caused many a delay in scenes. I watched an interview where Ruth was talking about trying to film scenes during Edwardian and it was constantly delayed by a front-end loader on a neighboring farm being put into reverse and it would beep loudly and exclaim 'VEHICLE IN REVERSE!' and this would echo across the valley. Ruth said there were days where she was convinced the machine only drove in reverse.
yknow what my auntie who was a kid on a farm in the 1940s says when people whine about how things arent as good today? "sure, back when the farmhands slept in little rooms out in the barn with just a range to keep em warm in the winter" these shows are really great and i know they make it all seem super cute, but lets just be grateful for technological luxuries we have, for all their faults
I saw an M Night Shamalan movie like that one :D But yes, it always makes me think of those historical sites that employ period actors. You really do settle in very quickly, and when you leave, the contrast is harsh.
Exactly...my youngest brother is a history teacher and they are told what to teach and when they are allowed to teach the era in question. The book, The Lies My History Teacher Told/Taught Me is a huge eye opener. I was a teacher for grades k-8 for 22 years. Very little of science and history is taught because they are gearing students to pass the state standardized tests for math, English Language, reading comprehension.
When they are talking about the stained glass and the imperfections like the waves and bubbles, those bubbles are called seeds and they are beautiful. I try to explain this to people making faux stained glass with epoxy and tell them not to remove the bubbles to make it more authentic... no one cares. Imperfection is perfection.
I agree and back then there everything glass,paintings ex was soo beautifuly meid tis days every thing has too be done perfect and dont have anny inperfections wat so ever we have lost soo many skulle too time
These series are so fascinating. I’ve been yearning for something like this for a long time. The anthropology and history of civilizations and regular folk is so important. Too often we learn of the wars, famous figures and people in power and it doesn’t paint a relevant enough picture to be able to see the whys and hows of how things are today.
@@tinalouisestagg probably it's been a non venomous snake. Otherwise, no sum of money would be able to make you pick up a cobra for example. And eels are not deadly to humans as far as I know. They will shock you, yes, but they can't kill you so there is less risk in picking them up than touching venomous snakes
Robin Hood makes a lot more sense now. The idea that the world around you belongs to someone else and they were born with that right. The concept of public land didn't exist, they owned all the fish in the river, all the trees in the forest, and all the animals in the woods.
And more importantly you have no real means to buy the land. The church land couldn't be sold and the nobleman's land was almost as bad. A society where a frugal, industrious and intelligent person maybe couldn't even get 10 acres to themselves is such a crazy foreign world.
I'm really loving this series, but is anyone else really concerned about all the lead? They were all handling it bare-handed , digging it up, breathing the gasses from smelting, etc?? I'm just really surprised. Like yeah, people didn't know that lead was toxic in the Tudor era, but I would think that since it's a modern production, they'd be required to take precautions??? Also surprised they didn't discuss it's toxicity at all?
They are getting lead oxide on their hands in the painting scene. The UK must be super ok with this stuff, if you burned coal in an open pit like they did in the edwardian series in California you would probably go to prison.
As with anything that is considered like super toxic these days (such as Asbestos or smoking), it really takes years and years of exposure before it would kill you. Turns out our body is pretty good at cleaning itself if exposed to toxins every once and a while.
I have watched all of these farm history videos many times over and this is my favorite episode. I've watched Ruth be pretty badass - plucking and disemboweling poultry, cooking pig brains (and even eyeballs), but to watch her freak out over an eel in the boat is just.....iconic. "My toes are all curled." 😂
I would so love to be one of them!! I was actually telling my husband last episode that I would've loved to have been a part of one of these. Me & my mom love the Victorian Era. We actually attempt to do most of our basic healthcare herbally.
The whole historical farm series has been such an eye opener I am rewatching wartime farm right now. I mean the cast is great Ruth Peter and Alex sometimes Tom and the supporting characters are cool
You have to hand to our forebears, so many different skills had to come together to make a stained glass window. And all without electricity. I'm so I pressed by Ruth, Peter and Tom
It always fascinates me to see how the ordinary people lived throughout history. I mean, they were the majority of the population after all... I'd really love to spend a year or so with one of those projects.
@@sgrannie9938 I'm sure it would, I know how my hands look after gardening for a couple of hours, and that's nothing compared to the everyday life of most people in history...
HI The camera obscura portrait painting lady was REALLY good! Wow what a great portrait she did.! And I think it must have been used by portrait artists at that time and later, by artists like Vermeer, whose paintings look like photographs!
Thank you for telling me this, I've been wondering what he looked like and somehow even tho I've watched this series multiple times I always missed that his last name was goodman.
This series is so entertaining! Something about seeing knowledgeable people placed into a pretty historically accurate setting and seeing them just live is so cool. I could watch this for hours
The tudor times and the early industrial revolution seem to mark turning points in history. Each one was a significant step away from medieval period and into the modern world. Fascinating.
So informative these videos! The use of the camera obscura for portraiture is very interesting and unknown to many of us. Every secondary school in U.S. and Europe should have a course in this!
Such inspiring videos to see when suburban life is challenged by covid. Life was certainly hard, but there is some kind of essence about a simpler way of living that we lost long ago.
I love Colin brick and mine historian he’s really smart and confident in what he’s doing in most of the documentaries especially with Peter I know he learns and appreciate Colin too
also very egocentric and self-absorbed, I would say like most women but she's even bigger self-absorbed than most women still xD ... She does know a lot of stuff, though, so I'll give her that, and she's also very attractive in her own way. But I'd assume it's very hard living with her cause it's always about her, and her being right all the time. Bleah!
Interestingly, Ruth's dish of eel with beer and herbs is still quite common in Eastern Germany, where eel is still a big delicacy- Aal grün mit Spreewaldsauce. It's possible it was introduced by the Hugenots, since it also exists in Belgium, where it's called called Paling in 't groen.
I love these reenactments, these are so cool. While it seems like life would have been extremely difficult, everyone seems so happy to be past the first attack of the plague. I cant even imagine.
Anyone else get massive goosebumps when she was cutting the glass? Ugh..I was cringing the whole time, wishing it was over. I enjoyed watching, but the sounds were KILLING me!
These guys are all great sports and obviously love what they do..but Ruth has got to be my favorite. Shes so smart about many things that might have been lost to time
Although it seems that way, I think it's more that she knows they're filming to time constraints, and is just trying to get to the point for the sake of the viewers. This is just my view, but may be so?
MY GOODNESS!! The amount of timber needed to make fire for DAILY cooking, melting lead-ore, boiling ale, baking bread, Blacksmith work, fence-making, house-building, castle-building, etc, England must've been a vast wasteland of deforestation at that time
Populations were a lot smaller than they are today, so there were actually more trees and forests. Also, people in this era had a huge interest in maintaining the forests. Meanwhile, now most people don't consider them vital for life
As far as I know, we can't tell if they had "a huge interest", but we can tell they took some measures to maintain them, if nothing else, because people would rather not walk a mile to reach the nearest tree.
I do know that the amount of ships built in the 17th century (sea battles, exploration, colonization etc) contributed to deforestation in central Spain, and probably also elsewhere. But the population was still so small after the black death.
Like quite a few others, I would be somewhat apprehensive about going into that lead mine through that narrow entrance. That's what claustrophobia does to you!
agree, although my biggest scare was that at some point the mine could have collapsed and cut their way out. That's more terrifying than the narrow space they've gone through
I had to smile when Tom entered the mine thinking what it would be like if he came face to face with a couple of badger's or foxes who could have moved in.
Seeing those lads down the mine gave me a renewed respect for our ancestors and appreciation for how hard their lives were--and a renewed hatred for those foreigners and their domestic catamites who slander and sully their legacy.
Add this to the list of reasons why we have it so good today. We as a modern society have no idea what it means to survive or to realize that this could be your last meal. Mad respect for the men and women who came before us.
The Mona Lisa used an unusual magnifying glass, a mirror and an appertaining structure, for size. Leonardo da Vinci like the image so much, he asked and got permission from the owner, Mona Lisa’s Father, to travel from town to town, showing the skill used in the apparatus and the final image being like that of the person sitting for the portrait. He was away for two years, and I believe Leonardo didn’t return the painting before he died.
I'm told the painter in this one is actually Ruth's husband, and with the book-binder being their daughter, I think that's so cool, a whole family of history-lovers,
Lol! One of my favorite words. I used it the other day, and my dad was like a WHAT? I said "a homunculus-you know. Like a mannikin ... a little humanoid ..." Apparently it's no longer in common use.
@@mcaskey358 That never crossed my mind, or my dad's. He's accustomed to my using highfalutin' or archaic words. Do you think that's why the original commentator said "WTH?" I figured he knew what it meant, but just thought it was funny that Peter pulled 16th Century terminology out of his fine ass. Oh-it's from the 17th Century. Perhaps that was the issue.🤔
This series is so fantastic! Also, an aside - is it just me or did the stained glass fellow have a lowkey crush on Ruth? In any case, I love how sweet he was with her efforts 🙂
well i think it understandable people at that time would call it that because England is cold and wet almost every day in the year even during summer so bone dry wood was something rare xD...its basically a smoked wood.
19:50 Ruth was hilarious when the eel escaped the basket, and she wouldn't get it because it was too snake like.😱Even more funny than it would be with other women, as she is pretty much superwoman with great energy and can do anything, even what us guys do. But snake like? No way! lol.🤣🤣🤣
I was thinking that, like I'm well aware that in tudor times they didn't know the dangers of lead....but surely you should have some more precautions in modern times even while trying to recreate this experience
@@GBfanatic15 I'm horrified that they're even entering these mines! They say they haven't been used in 130 years, it could easily be unstable and collapse on them.
Yes there is, it's perfectly safe to handle lead ingots. The vapours from melting it is not safe though. Lead is dangerous when it enters your bloodstream, not when it touches your skin.
Really interesting series. I love this season plus Wartime Farm, which I think could be a really good video game haha. I'm hopeful that if modern tech fails us, we can revert back to this level of technology and lifestyle
I've learned so much in this series, from Ruth in particular. She's taught me I need to steam my oven to get my bread to rise, to make melomel from my parents overripe garden peaches instead of throwing them out, to put my starter under the same peach tree to supercharge my yeast, and so much more. I even roast my hotdogs and marshmallows in front of instead of over the fire now. My mom used to think I was nuts: now if I make a cooking or baking suggestion she asks if it's a medieval farm thing, and then just does it.
I love the comment. I love Ruth's passion so much.
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Ruth making the glass mosaic is a fine example of how a person can do almost anything as long as they're able to follow instructions.
Unfortunately people with a low enough IQ simply can't
The sound of her cutting the glass was killing me. It was like nails on a chalkboard!
I think she would have made a decent living as a medieval stained glass maker. I was impressed with her work
I hand it to all 4starting from the green valley-to the 4th person; all the farm series are good but Ruth does it so believably(Colin in this one&wartime is my fav know it best)
@@ritageorge8748 Colin is also in BBC's Full Steam Ahead, which has Ruth, Tom, and Alex in it
And so my crush on Ruth continues, what an incredible woman! As a historian myself her enthusiasm towards history and learning fills me with great hope for humanity.
i feel like shes a amazing friend to have
Isn’t this an amazing series?? I was born in England but have lived in Australia since I was a child, so this series is helping me to see in immeasurable ways, the differing cultures as well as how my foremothers and fathers lived! By watching my contemporaries perform the tasks performed a few hundred years ago, I feel like I’m reconnecting with my ancestors! If only we could learn from history!! I agree wholeheartedly, Jahosephat!!!
I recently found these series a few months back and Ive been excited whenever i see one with Ruth . He energy radiates and the way she throws herself into what she does. Great person!
Jahosephat Davy - A potent antidote for all the ‘Kardashian/Jenner’, ‘Housewives’ franchise, ‘reality’ show types that usually litter the airwaves...
For me, it's Peter. He's knowledgeable about the old tech with a great, wry sense of humor, always willing to "get stuck in" as they say and seemingly a very sweet, gentle, kind man. He's usually the dirtiest one on the set because he doesn't seem to hold anything back just like a little boy at play. In other series, he's always the one to do the heavy lifting.
His work on the "alarm" clock in a previous episode is amusing. He goofed something up and the spring unwound in a few seconds. Zing! Oops! The look on his face ....
These series are a wonderful look into history. I love history and BBC documentaries are chock full of the best. These series are great because the have useful information in them like different edible weeds, herbs to chase off bugs, cooking tips and much more. I think I've seen all of these different series, but I keep my eyes open hoping for more!
Ruth is generally so stoic and unflappable, it was fun to see her get frightened of the eel.
I'm definitely with her on the eels.
I am whit her eals are not the nicest fish gives me the creeps.
I've always thought that she was very cheerful and smiley all the time. I didn't really get stoic from her but that's just my observation.
@@raventoocute3006 she's cheerful and smily even when doing the nastiest of tasks - which reads STOIC on one level, and just a delightful human on another.
I wouldn’t call her stoic but shes def unflappable she seems like she can handle anything with a smile or find it lovely, it was fun to see her with the eel
I love Ruth she has such a positive, cheerful personality.
Honestly these videos wouldn't be half as interesting without these three, and especially Ruth
she's literally living her dream
She's so into everything she does, it's a real joy to watch.
I doubt anyone could make me interested in the multiday process of doing laundry on a victorian farm, but then Ruth comes along...
It is sad to think that Tom, Peter and Ruth probably traveled between the various locations shown in these videos by getting on the motorway and being stuck in traffic. The directors have done a good job of making it seem as though the modern world didn't exist, and I daresay that couldn't have been very easy!
Finding a suitable blocking shot may be tricky, but once you have it you have it. The real problem with period productions is sound, because it can change constantly. Jet Overflights, nearby highways (horns) or, when they filmed Edwardian which was abutted by working farms, heavy machinery caused many a delay in scenes. I watched an interview where Ruth was talking about trying to film scenes during Edwardian and it was constantly delayed by a front-end loader on a neighboring farm being put into reverse and it would beep loudly and exclaim 'VEHICLE IN REVERSE!' and this would echo across the valley. Ruth said there were days where she was convinced the machine only drove in reverse.
maxdecphoenix was the interview on here?
@@elizabetha2601 i'm sure it was. where though i have no idea. Been years and years since i watched that
yknow what my auntie who was a kid on a farm in the 1940s says when people whine about how things arent as good today?
"sure, back when the farmhands slept in little rooms out in the barn with just a range to keep em warm in the winter"
these shows are really great and i know they make it all seem super cute, but lets just be grateful for technological luxuries we have, for all their faults
I saw an M Night Shamalan movie like that one :D
But yes, it always makes me think of those historical sites that employ period actors. You really do settle in very quickly, and when you leave, the contrast is harsh.
I'm still giggling over "4 stars... I can see them through the roof" at 38:35 🤣🤣
Yeah. Wish I was that quick-witted.
“Shut up over there!”
"Peter, get your knee out of my back." A funny response would have been, "Tom, that's not knee." But I suppose this is a family show. ;-)
I wanna be between them😍
@@infledermaus I actually was kind of surprised they got tipsy for that shot (And i really think they did)
You all have an ear for what the customer wants. I love these period farm videos, and wish they would make more. Thanks for the uploads!
If I had this in school I would have loved history classes
@@AngelWJedi ... me also, my history classes were very lacking
Exactly...my youngest brother is a history teacher and they are told what to teach and when they are allowed to teach the era in question.
The book, The Lies My History Teacher Told/Taught Me is a huge eye opener. I was a teacher for grades k-8 for 22 years. Very little of science and history is taught because they are gearing students to pass the state standardized tests for math, English Language, reading comprehension.
Oh there’s tons of these! Tudor, Georgian, Victorian, etc.
If you enjoy this channel, I highly suggest you try Time Team! You won’t regret it I betcha!
Ruth's husband is Mark Goodman, the tapestry artist @43:30.
Isn't he also playing some sort of bagpipe in the outdoor market in a previous episode?
Uh oh, you hear that @JahosephatDavy, you have some competition for ruth's ❤️ lol 😆
Oh, that's wonderful! Thank you!
When they are talking about the stained glass and the imperfections like the waves and bubbles, those bubbles are called seeds and they are beautiful. I try to explain this to people making faux stained glass with epoxy and tell them not to remove the bubbles to make it more authentic... no one cares. Imperfection is perfection.
I agree and back then there everything glass,paintings ex was soo beautifuly meid tis days every thing has too be done perfect and dont have anny inperfections wat so ever we have lost soo many skulle too time
I didn’t know that, that’s so cool!
I would love to learn how to make stained glass!
These series are so fascinating. I’ve been yearning for something like this for a long time. The anthropology and history of civilizations and regular folk is so important. Too often we learn of the wars, famous figures and people in power and it doesn’t paint a relevant enough picture to be able to see the whys and hows of how things are today.
You know, I SO want to open an amusement park like this.
@@BeckBeckGo most people wouldn't find it very amusing after the initial novelty wore off
I love Ruth her enthusiasm and the way she seems to be sharing secrets
Ruth being spooked by the eel was funny. Haven't seen that reaction from her with on any of the series with anything, lol. We all have our phobias.
definitely
I handled a snake once no problems. Couldn’t even attempt to pick up an eel unless a large amount of money was involved.
@@tinalouisestagg probably it's been a non venomous snake. Otherwise, no sum of money would be able to make you pick up a cobra for example. And eels are not deadly to humans as far as I know. They will shock you, yes, but they can't kill you so there is less risk in picking them up than touching venomous snakes
@@blabla-rg7ky it was a deadly Tasmanian tiger snake.
@@tinalouisestagg you're out of your mind then...
I would die of anxiety if I had to crawl into that cave.
I agree! Watching Tom slither in, not knowing what could be in there and if it’s all stable, just a giant NOPE from me!
Ms Maddie - One of the fundamentals of Archaeology 101: one gets used to it - especially if something interesting is awaiting.
That crawling in made me SO anxious
Agreed. I don't think I could do that crawling in there. Too clausterphobic! Would much rather go fishing with Ruth.
Or pick up the eel.
Robin Hood makes a lot more sense now. The idea that the world around you belongs to someone else and they were born with that right. The concept of public land didn't exist, they owned all the fish in the river, all the trees in the forest, and all the animals in the woods.
And more importantly you have no real means to buy the land.
The church land couldn't be sold and the nobleman's land was almost as bad.
A society where a frugal, industrious and intelligent person maybe couldn't even get 10 acres to themselves is such a crazy foreign world.
Tfw when you win at monopoly
God you should've seen the victorian era
@@cazek445 How so?
I mean at least you could potentially escape to the new world at that point in history.
@@kkknotcool good point
I volunteer to learn this stuff hands on. It would be so much fun. A TudorLife Summer Camp for adults!
I would love to do this as a child also, it would be so educational!
They should make this as some educational vacation destination
See we can start a class now😁😉
I'd strongly suggest to avoid the lead mining and smelting lessons. :)
I would definitely pay to go to that.
Ruth is so charming and looks like she jumped off a medieval tapastrie
Would love to spend a day with ruth, learning from her personally. Such passion is contagious
I'm really loving this series, but is anyone else really concerned about all the lead? They were all handling it bare-handed , digging it up, breathing the gasses from smelting, etc?? I'm just really surprised. Like yeah, people didn't know that lead was toxic in the Tudor era, but I would think that since it's a modern production, they'd be required to take precautions??? Also surprised they didn't discuss it's toxicity at all?
I was as soon as they said lead ..😉🙃
It takes years and years of exposure to have any adverse effects.
@Non,Player, Adeptus not quite, lead metal is still pretty toxic to handle, it comes off on you like chalk.
They are getting lead oxide on their hands in the painting scene. The UK must be super ok with this stuff, if you burned coal in an open pit like they did in the edwardian series in California you would probably go to prison.
As with anything that is considered like super toxic these days (such as Asbestos or smoking), it really takes years and years of exposure before it would kill you. Turns out our body is pretty good at cleaning itself if exposed to toxins every once and a while.
I have watched all of these farm history videos many times over and this is my favorite episode. I've watched Ruth be pretty badass - plucking and disemboweling poultry, cooking pig brains (and even eyeballs), but to watch her freak out over an eel in the boat is just.....iconic. "My toes are all curled." 😂
nothing like a bunch of educated historian drunkenly hobbling up the stairs.
I would so love to be one of them!! I was actually telling my husband last episode that I would've loved to have been a part of one of these. Me & my mom love the Victorian Era. We actually attempt to do most of our basic healthcare herbally.
They genuinely did seem a bit sloshed too heh
Oh they drink during the series sometimes oh well it's real there's living there for a year
Or handling lead with their bare hands and breathing in the dust
The whole historical farm series has been such an eye opener I am rewatching wartime farm right now. I mean the cast is great Ruth Peter and Alex sometimes Tom and the supporting characters are cool
43:32 - Mark Goodman, Tudor re-enactor and artist - Ruth’s husband.
heck this bastard who stands between me and my chance to woo ruth xD
@@marycanary86 HAH
You have to hand to our forebears, so many different skills had to come together to make a stained glass window. And all without electricity. I'm so I pressed by Ruth, Peter and Tom
It always fascinates me to see how the ordinary people lived throughout history. I mean, they were the majority of the population after all... I'd really love to spend a year or so with one of those projects.
At least they had comfy places to go sleep and bath once the cameras stopped rolling.
Look at Ruth’s hands. 24/7 for a full year would destroy them.
@@sgrannie9938 I'm sure it would, I know how my hands look after gardening for a couple of hours, and that's nothing compared to the everyday life of most people in history...
@@sgrannie9938 Yeah... I mean, a medieval king would probably marvel at the luxury a modern-day worker has in the western world...
HI
The camera obscura portrait painting lady was REALLY good! Wow what a great portrait she did.! And I think it must have been used by portrait artists at that time and later, by artists like Vermeer, whose paintings look like photographs!
this series is so damn good , can`t get enough of it
I love how he talks about how crude the glass-cutting is. They basically still do it that way in the frame shop 500 years later.
Yeah but the diamond or metal tools are far more effective and the glass just snaps off.
@@MattPSU02not always. Grozing irons are still used.
It's funny to think that the artist Mark Goodman is in fact Ruth Goodman's husband. A family that does history together stays together.
You could say, they have a history.
You could say, a boy loved a girl and the rest is history.
Their daughter, Eve, is also an expert in historical textiles!
Thank you for telling me this, I've been wondering what he looked like and somehow even tho I've watched this series multiple times I always missed that his last name was goodman.
Fascinating, I am going to Google him FS
This series is so entertaining! Something about seeing knowledgeable people placed into a pretty historically accurate setting and seeing them just live is so cool. I could watch this for hours
29:48 Peter is very proud of himself, he mined, smelted, and refined lead directly from the ore.
37:20 Had to laugh at the modern interjection of 'epic fail'. XD
The tudor times and the early industrial revolution seem to mark turning points in history. Each one was a significant step away from medieval period and into the modern world. Fascinating.
So informative these videos!
The use of the camera obscura for portraiture is very interesting and unknown to many of us. Every secondary school in U.S. and Europe should have a course in this!
Oh wow! Ruth finally has a weakness! Snakes and eels!
Such inspiring videos to see when suburban life is challenged by covid. Life was certainly hard, but there is some kind of essence about a simpler way of living that we lost long ago.
yeah back then when the piss in your chamber pot would be frozen when you woke in the morning......
@@marycanary86 Just thaw it by the fire and then sell it 😅
I love Colin brick and mine historian he’s really smart and confident in what he’s doing in most of the documentaries especially with Peter I know he learns and appreciate Colin too
Besides being a seemingly nice person, Ruth is a master of many trades; she does it all.
also very egocentric and self-absorbed, I would say like most women but she's even bigger self-absorbed than most women still xD ... She does know a lot of stuff, though, so I'll give her that, and she's also very attractive in her own way. But I'd assume it's very hard living with her cause it's always about her, and her being right all the time. Bleah!
Interestingly, Ruth's dish of eel with beer and herbs is still quite common in Eastern Germany, where eel is still a big delicacy- Aal grün mit Spreewaldsauce. It's possible it was introduced by the Hugenots, since it also exists in Belgium, where it's called called Paling in 't groen.
I love these reenactments, these are so cool. While it seems like life would have been extremely difficult, everyone seems so happy to be past the first attack of the plague. I cant even imagine.
14:52 You guys looked like little Gnomes when Peter was pushing Tom in the back and running. So funny made me LOL
Watching this series during the pandemic , attentively making notes.
ruth being sacred of the eels is hilarious 😂😂 I would probably be the same
This is my favorite series in the entirety of TH-cam.
Ruth has a vulnerability! Never thought I'd see the day.
This is my favorite episode so far. The old ways of making metal are just so amazing. I wish I could have done this during Tudor times.
Ruth has a nice laugh. She does it a lot.
“Well, I reckon we could get a body in now” me with my morbid mind- what?
Anyone else get massive goosebumps when she was cutting the glass? Ugh..I was cringing the whole time, wishing it was over. I enjoyed watching, but the sounds were KILLING me!
Nails on a chalkboard!!!
They did a lot of work this episode! Nothing was easy to come by, all strenuous
Sus videos sobre como era la vida en la edad media y sus artes en la arquitectura y agricultura como en otras mas es muy genial de ver
Ruth is just a british national treasure.
Protect her at all costs!
These guys are all great sports and obviously love what they do..but Ruth has got to be my favorite. Shes so smart about many things that might have been lost to time
Ruth lectures experts and completes their sentences for them.
Although it seems that way, I think it's more that she knows they're filming to time constraints, and is just trying to get to the point for the sake of the viewers. This is just my view, but may be so?
Of course Ruth also knows how to solder what a legend
Collin seems to be very knowledgeable, he's been in most of these series about completely different crafts
MY GOODNESS!! The amount of timber needed to make fire for DAILY cooking, melting lead-ore, boiling ale, baking bread, Blacksmith work, fence-making, house-building, castle-building, etc, England must've been a vast wasteland of deforestation at that time
nunyabiznes nunyabiznes Look at google map for England - there are very few trees left anywhere.
Populations were a lot smaller than they are today, so there were actually more trees and forests. Also, people in this era had a huge interest in maintaining the forests. Meanwhile, now most people don't consider them vital for life
As far as I know, we can't tell if they had "a huge interest", but we can tell they took some measures to maintain them, if nothing else, because people would rather not walk a mile to reach the nearest tree.
I do know that the amount of ships built in the 17th century (sea battles, exploration, colonization etc) contributed to deforestation in central Spain, and probably also elsewhere. But the population was still so small after the black death.
@christopher snedeker Yeah but that didn't stop Europe from depleting its forests.
Being a plumber soldering is one of my worst fears and Ruth is making it look easy
Everytjing under 2.5" is a joke. You got it just remember heat the fitting not the pipe
Like quite a few others, I would be somewhat apprehensive about going into that lead mine through that narrow entrance. That's what claustrophobia does to you!
agree, although my biggest scare was that at some point the mine could have collapsed and cut their way out. That's more terrifying than the narrow space they've gone through
Excellent video, the sound is perfect as well 😁👍
Woohoo! Bang on with the audio balancing in this one! Thankyou for listening to us!
I had to smile when Tom entered the mine thinking what it would be like if he came face to face with a couple of badger's or foxes who could have moved in.
Glass cutter "I'm impressed"... does he not know that Ruth is so talented and can do just about anything she tries
She's tremendously careful and attentive to detail. Except when you ask her to pick up an eel, apparently.
"OK, we're going to be interacting with bees, be sure to put on your protective gear."
"OK, we're going to be mining for lead now..."
nope my butt is not going in that small dark hole my hats off to these two men
No way you'd get me crawling in an unsupported abandoned mine, not even for telly...
Nice! I bet that fishing technique goes back even further. I love these shows!
Seeing those lads down the mine gave me a renewed respect for our ancestors and appreciation for how hard their lives were--and a renewed hatred for those foreigners and their domestic catamites who slander and sully their legacy.
Add this to the list of reasons why we have it so good today. We as a modern society have no idea what it means to survive or to realize that this could be your last meal. Mad respect for the men and women who came before us.
The Mona Lisa used an unusual magnifying glass, a mirror and an appertaining structure, for size. Leonardo da Vinci like the image so much, he asked and got permission from the owner, Mona Lisa’s Father, to travel from town to town, showing the skill used in the apparatus and the final image being like that of the person sitting for the portrait. He was away for two years, and I believe Leonardo didn’t return the painting before he died.
obsessed with this series! Ruth is just amazing
Such quality documentaries this lot make! Love it, and Ruth is just a lovely! More of this, please!
Love the period farming experiments, would be interesting to go live on one for a while hahaha
Going on a modern farm is pretty interesting too. If more people knew what goes into growing food, I think there would be less food waste.
All these things, and then there's me 'episode on make the straw hats' .
I've always wondered how those glasses are made, but never bothered to search for information. It was more interesting as I thought.
Where is the next episode of this subject? I wanted to know what they did to clean and all that.
I'm told the painter in this one is actually Ruth's husband, and with the book-binder being their daughter, I think that's so cool, a whole family of history-lovers,
I really love this series! Brilliant!!!
6:03 Did Peter just call Tom “a little homunculus”? WTH?
My husband and I had a good laugh about that! 😂🤣
Peter's hilarious. I love that he calls Tom "Tommo."
Lol! One of my favorite words. I used it the other day, and my dad was like a WHAT? I said "a homunculus-you know. Like a mannikin ... a little humanoid ..." Apparently it's no longer in common use.
@@annika_panicka It's not a commonly used word and I think when people hear "homu" they hear "homo" and think it's a gay slander.
@@mcaskey358 That never crossed my mind, or my dad's. He's accustomed to my using highfalutin' or archaic words. Do you think that's why the original commentator said "WTH?" I figured he knew what it meant, but just thought it was funny that Peter pulled 16th Century terminology out of his fine ass. Oh-it's from the 17th Century. Perhaps that was the issue.🤔
This series is so fantastic!
Also, an aside - is it just me or did the stained glass fellow have a lowkey crush on Ruth? In any case, I love how sweet he was with her efforts 🙂
I thought it was just toms shirt being stuffed, but gosh why is he so buff?? 😭😭
How many stars are we lookin at? 4 I can see them through the roof. I just died laughing
"Peter get your knee out of my back" - 38:48 xD
is it just me but I find this so relaxing to watch
This makes me want to read Ken Follett again.
I love this series ! You guys do such thorough work and myself and countless others enjoy it soooo much!
When I saw Camera Obscura in the title I immediately thought of that awesome PS2 game Fatal Frame
I loved that game!
poor piggies! I know, I know. It's survival for the farmers. Still sad for the piggies. Love this series!
How heartbreaking it must have been to the glassmakers when the lead was ripped out of the windows.... :(
When a juicy eel slumps out the trap and he's looking keen😲
the world- Dry Wood
British historians- WHITE COAL
well i think it understandable people at that time would call it that because England is cold and wet almost every day in the year even during summer so bone dry wood was something rare xD...its basically a smoked wood.
Tom and Peter sliding down that hole, and I'm like, "Nope! You boys have fun with that."
Ha! We've finally discovered Ruth's kryptonite. Eels! Hilarious.
19:50 Ruth was hilarious when the eel escaped the basket, and she wouldn't get it because it was too snake like.😱Even more funny than it would be with other women, as she is pretty much superwoman with great energy and can do anything, even what us guys do. But snake like? No way! lol.🤣🤣🤣
Renaming these shows with these silly titles are kind of aggravating to me but at least you have them, so for that I thank you.
That said, Great series!! LOVE all of them!
Just seeing them handling those lead ingots makes my skin crawl. There's no safe amount of exposure to lead.
Shanna Wheeler why are they not at least wearing gloves?!
@@rarespiritwendy I know, right???
I was thinking that, like I'm well aware that in tudor times they didn't know the dangers of lead....but surely you should have some more precautions in modern times even while trying to recreate this experience
@@GBfanatic15 I'm horrified that they're even entering these mines! They say they haven't been used in 130 years, it could easily be unstable and collapse on them.
Yes there is, it's perfectly safe to handle lead ingots. The vapours from melting it is not safe though. Lead is dangerous when it enters your bloodstream, not when it touches your skin.
Really interesting series. I love this season plus Wartime Farm, which I think could be a really good video game haha. I'm hopeful that if modern tech fails us, we can revert back to this level of technology and lifestyle
I WANT MORE OF THIS!! AND RUTH AND THE GANG!
This could very well be a TV series. The production and commentary is absolutely amazing!