Oh my, I wish I could hear the narrative better. The music is so loud at times, it’s hard to hear what is being said. I really love watching “Absolute History”. I think I’ve seen 20 different episodes since I found your programs three days ago. I can’t seem to get enough of it! I’ve also introduced my sister to your shows. We are both in our 70’s and many nights have a hard time sleeping, we both binge watch in our separate homes till the wee hours of the morning. Thank you so much for all your wonderful work.
Hi - if you search for " Edwardian farm" on youtube, someone called Brad Collett has downloaded a really good video, with no issues. The same goes for Tales from the green valley, someone called permahome... etc. You can find all the farms these three people made with the BBC if you check out Ruth Goodman on the net.. I love these series! Good luck - stay safe.. greetings from Sweden!
i love how they never really break the general time theme, is in you never see a car to obvious in shot or a phone or something, it makes these docos way more interesting and kinda almost lets you suspend reality
BBC originally made these programs. They really know their stuff. Still happy they sold on the licenses for this so that the programs could be on TH-cam
Geez this year stint must have cost a pretty penny just setting up starter stock. That insta-herd of cattle was upwards of 20k alone. I yearn to return to this way of life. A tad different existence if I was to return this time period being Canadian but I feel much more attached to this then this plastic life we encounter today. I go out of my way to acquire new skills at any chance possible.
Ruth is one of those people who is super handy to have around. Not only is she knowledgeable and pragmatic, but she's a real grafter. She really reminds me of my mum in that respect
I don't know what a grafter is because I'm for California and extremely self centered, but that lady Ruth would be a great companion. She has a lucky husband/partner (you get what I'm saying)
Years ago, an Idaho woman named Karla Emory wrote a wonderful book about homesteading inamerica. If you are interested in this, I think you'd really be interested in this. Go-to a second hand book dealer andaask him to help you find one.
Hahaha. Totally agree. Though I’ve found the auto-generated captions to be exceptionally good on this one. Turns a big problem into a minor inconvenience.
Growing up in rural Britain this series has really made me feel connected to my village and ancestors. My great grandad was born in this time and I've just done my ancestry. We have lived in this village since time immemorial but we were very wealthy originally owning the best house in the valley but my great grandad squandered all the money and has lots of mistresses and wives and kids 😂
It really is great. It helps too that these guys doing a good job at sharing how much they enjoy making this and other historical recreation series. ☺️I accidentally fell asleep watching this episode and woke up to my kid sitting close to the TV absolutely entranced.
"No one is under an illusions that market gardening is easy."-Ruth Goodman As a modern day market gardener, I completely agree since we're doing all of the work by hand.
That "compromising position" for goat-milking is the way that my Grandmother taught me to milk them. It keeps them calm and makes things quicker-done, overall.
The goat standing in the milk bucket is a dominance display. You need to catch it's leg as it's raising it to step in the bucket, and keep raising it. It throws them totally off balance and they're too confused to try it again. Plus, it's hilarious.
Having to hand milk goats when I was a child of 10 I learned very quickly, probably from an old farmer who told me so, you tie up the one foot because they can't take 2 ft off the ground so by tying one foot up they will not step in the pan nor kick you while you are milking
My grandparents taught me how to milk cows and kill a chicken. You kill a chicken with a long knitting needle you push into their brain through the beak because then they don't contract the muscles and the feathers come off much easier.
I raised goats when I was young. The "tying up a foot" trick doesn't work. I had to learn to use my shoulder and quick hands to keep their feet out of the pan.
It's a trick to keep the copyright infringement Bots confused. All of these shows are actually produced by the BBC. Update since I originally posted this it has come to my attention that absolute history and timeline actually have rights to show this from the new owners since BBC sold the rights to these particular shows. BBC archives still contain all the old websites related to the show
Many many times our modern life can be taken for granted, experiencing past historical eras with these incredible knowledgeable geniuses, really opens up my heart to see the real value in life....
For those having trouble: I've noticed that the audio issue (loud music, quiet vocal track) seems to be a problem with a lot of BBC productions. It seems I can always solve the issue by wearing headphones - it seems to even things out.
Good Lord those horses are wonderful! Absolutely magnificent. I understand why tractors were introduced, but such a lot was lost when those magnificent horses were replaced!
working horses had very , very hard lives, [not to mention they were sent to war to pull wagons and guns]. and were sent to slaughter when their working days were over. thank God for tractors which spared the horses. There will always be draft horse enthusiasts who keep the horses as a hobby with comfortable lives for us to enjoy
@@faytheweber8578 well, these horses only work here and there. And are specifically bred to work, and NEED to work. Tractors introduce vast amounts of smoke and toxic chemicals into the environment, and the introduction enabled factory farming to bloom, which is a large cause of global warming due to tilling and lack of soil care. Coming from a farmer & homesteader.
This is my favorite thing to watch right now. I'm from America but my ancestors are from Scotland and England so I love seeing how they would have lived. Also this trio is fantastic together
I'm from Romania and so, I have absolutely NOTHING to do with how Brits have lived ages ago, but damn if this documentary is not entertaining as fuck! I have wasted 2 days worth of daily chores by not being able to stop watching the "Secrets of the Castle", "Victorian Farm" and now "Edwardian Farm" series. And I'm not even fond of history in general (not even my own country's history, much less England's history) but this re-enacting show is so good that I can't even....
I also have ancestry in the UK (England, Scotland, Ireland)! I also love watching historical documentaries! It gives me a greater respect for those that have come before.
@@Stoogewriter must be odd not knowing the ins and outs of your ancestry, i mean - you could know a lot, but if you live here a lot of people are well aware of what their family's job was or what happened to their ancestors hundreds of years back. Quite fascinating really. I just love walking around and seeing 400 year old houses like it's nothing
@@Stoogewriter same! I love it ❤️❤️ I'm 40% British, 37% Scottish, 13% Irish and 10% Norwegian. My family finished coming to the US around 1775. I just love Britain and it's history 🥰🇺🇲🇬🇧
No joke supermarkt chicken is flavorless compared to home grown chicken raised chicken for eggs when they stop laying we fatten them up for the pot so yummy
That's because supermarket chickens are culled very young so they have no fat in them. The birds are just injected with hormone to put on a lot of meat but they have no fat on them to flavor anything. Turkey's are even worse, significantly more meat, roughly same amount of fat. We've just accepted that the flavor has to come from the oil (fried) or 'flavor injectors.' You want a good flavorful meat, you need an old bird, with a good amount of fat. It's the difference between taste/sustenance.
I was just having this conversation today. I stopped eating chicken for a while when I returned from provencal France. It was alarming how much better the chicken from the small markets were there vs. how they are here in the States 😕
The meat you get from a small, locally sourced butcher is way better than supermarket meat. I buy meat from the local butcher whenever I can afford it cuz it's just so much tastier. Also, it supports local farms and since the meat doesn't travel very far, is better for the environment.
thats cuz this is a pirate copy of a dvd that this crap youtube page uploaded thru a $2 mono headphone cord. Try buying the dvd's from the BBC if you want quality. You get what you pay for and you pay nothing for youtube, so...........
I was a docent at Sotterley Plantation in Southern Maryland, US. In the smokehouse they still have a ham trough to salt the meat in. The trough is almost a meter across and almost 2 meters long and was hollowed out from a solid piece of oak back in the 1700's.
I am surprised that Ruth Goodman is surprised (at 17:50) tasting pickled apples. Growing up in Ukraine, that was one of my favorite common-folks foods. You could buy them on any farmer market in winter time, when other fruits were not available. My grandma knew at least TWO DOZENS recipes of pickled apples, plus few recipes of apple cider and apple wine.
Haha. I'm American, of German and Ukrainian decent. My great grandma used to make pickles apples, always had them at Christmas. No one over here knew what the hell they were.
@@funsizedi88 mine too. Mom was from Pennsylvania and set the table with "7 sweets and 7 sours' little bowls of baby dill and bread and butter pickles, spicedpeaches 3 crabapple, Cole slaw vinegared w and sour cream, cottage cheese and apple butter, pickled beets beeteggs, corn relish.. The LouisianaCajunscallthese "LAGNIAPPE" ( thelittleextra).
Hi - if you search for " Edwardian farm" on youtube, someone called Brad Collett has downloaded a really good video, with no issues. The same goes for Tales from the green valley, someone called permahome... etc. You can find all the farms these three people made with the BBC if you check out Ruth Goodman on the net.. I love these series! Good luck - stay safe.. greetings from Sweden!
I am a huge fan of that Professor that comes in to party with all the Folklore. I can never hear his name, and Closed Captioning doesn’t pick it up. I LOVE his portion of the show. He would be my favorite person at any party!!!
This series in INCREDIBLE!!! I love the fact that the strawberry plants that were planted a hundred years ago were still growing and thriving on the platou, just waiting for someone to return and give them a chance again...
Ruth's daughter; "and the trotter" Ruth; "that's for tea" Ruth's daughter; *Absolutely disgusted. I suppose mum doesn't bring work home with her often ey?
@@michealpersicko9531 some people in England (and some other countries ie- Australia) use the word tea to mean dinner. It's often interchangeably used to refer to both. Tho I've not specifically heard it used as a reference specifically to a 4pm pick-me-up
Ah,scrumpy. Nectar of the Gods,that. 40 years ago I visited England and and a friend took me out to Devon. 3 pints of scrumpy and a pub lunch,we fell asleep on the train back,and woke up feeling wonderful. Found a place in Putney that sold the stuff bulk. Very different from beer. I can only hope that it is still available for those who like it.
Scrumpy will always be around: the process for making it is about as simple as "pulp apples, leave in sanitized container a few months so nature can take its course"
This is soooo good! Educational, reviving history, traditions, aiming for a more self sustainable life, closer to nature. And... amusing. The archeology/history team is a brilliant mix! I just wish they made more if this stuff!
Ruth is such a Beautiful Soul!!! I could watch her research daily. Alex and Peter are such a cool combination of hard work, open minds, and teaching. May God’s Blessings Always be theirs.
Three people who are so important to me, three friends that have gotten me through so much in my life and they’ll probably never even know about it. Thank you Ruth, Peter, and Alex. ❤
i absolutely love these series. The only thing this season that's bothering me is the imbalanced sound quality of the videos. The background music so far has been vastly too loud. then the mic sound from our people is either too loud, or muffled. the quality of this season so far has been subpar with editing quality
Hi - if you search for " Edwardian farm" on youtube, someone called Brad Collett has downloaded a really good video, with no issues. The same goes for Tales from the green valley, someone called permahome... etc. You can find all the farms these three people made with the BBC if you check out Ruth Goodman on the net.. I love these series! Good luck - stay safe.. greetings from Sweden!
blasphemy? i think someone confuses it with Lèse-majesté here en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A8se-majest%C3%A9 this isnt ancient rome for emperors to call themselves gods and Edward wasnt like ... head of church was he?
@@MoonLitChild He really is very informative and quite the lovable eccentric. Some people think he's weird (yes, but in a good way) and that I'm weird for enjoying his appearances (sod them-Lol). I'm not sure I've seen him on "Time Team"-I've seen Ruth once and Alex a few times, but never Hutton ... I'll have to look up which episodes he's in. Thanks!
"This is the season when the wild geese come over, and their voices and voice of the wind, wailing about the moor. You hear... the gabriel hounds, the witch hounds, the hounds of Hell, dark with fiery eyes and tongues... coming for you in the night! And as you pass the abandon mine shaft the more you hear the air trapped, sobbing withing...! You hear the voices, the souls in Hell, rising... in torment... And that's how you know Christmas was on it's way!"
Thats a relief! Christmas is on its way . The day our saviour was born so that if we believe in Him we don't have to join the writhing and wailing of the souls in hell.
Imagine a country lad walking up and watching Peter's goat milking technique! LoL we hobble the nannies when you milk no muss no fuss! We also strain the apple cider and feed the mush to the hogs along with the acorns and forage makes for some very nice pork !
Caelestis Nox I’ve heard at some point it was something about putting the video on TH-cam that messes with it, But that doesn’t make much sense to me so I’m not sure.
@@dannydethanos6994 they licenced this show from the bbc. Some people claim that on original broadcast it was fine. But every official upload on streaming services I have tried watching it on sounds like this
Hi - if you search for " Edwardian farm" on youtube, someone called Brad Collett has downloaded a really good video, with no issues. The same goes for Tales from the green valley, someone called permahome... etc. You can find all the farms these three people made with the BBC if you check out Ruth Goodman on the net.. I love these series! Good luck - stay safe.. greetings from Sweden!
Shout out to Ruth for being a complete legend and straight up bare handing that chicken to clean out the innards. It had to be done, but she didn't even blink twice.
Have you watched the Tudor Monastery Farm series? It features an adult Eve. She has followed in her historian mother's footsteps and learned the art of Tudor-style bookbinding. She does a whole segment on her own, explaining and showing how books were made in the 1500s.
I finished the Victorian Farm series on Christmas Eve and now on to the Edwardian series. I can't stop! Prof Hutton is the best Halloween party guest ever!
I adore these series, I have no illusions about how hard this life is but the idea of being able to grow and eat as much of my own food as possible is my end goal for my life
Love the Edwardian era, my mothers, mother grew up in a tiny village in the south of England. The family decided to move to New Zealand, two sons were to go first with their sister (about 18yr old) to cook and clean for them. WW1 broke out and the rest of the family couldn’t travel to join them. It was 10years later that they were reunited. My Nana had married in NZ and had my mother. The family left in England had another son the same age as my mother when they finally arrived in NZ. As a child I couldn’t understand how Mum had an uncle the same age as her.
My village in south west England, was the birth place of Francis Trask.(1840 - 6 April 1910) He was a 20th-century Member of the New Zealand Legislative Council and Mayor of Nelson. You can look up the 1911 Census on the internet, maybe learn a little more about where your family was from.
i want the board of agriculture and fisheries leaflets. Wish covid 19 I think we need to go back to the days that is in this series. Found it on Google books for free. fascinating read.
A great many standard varieties of apple tree bear fruit only every second year. The off year may see a small crop -- maybe 10% of the bearing year's, a handful of apples, or simply no fruit at all.
There's a small forest near my home in which an apple tree is growing wild and it's pretty old. I can't recall the name of the apples but it's Norwegian or Danish. Anyway it produces apples every two years; they're pretty small and not very sweet but they make very good juice and sauce.
Whoever was in charge of wardrobe did Peter so dirty during this series! He looks uncomfortable doing all that work in clothes that are too tight for him. Poor guy.
Aww I'd love it if we still celebrated the traditional un-Americanised Halloween here in the UK! I feel like we've lost touch with all that tradition, as much as I enjoy how we do it these days
the un-Anglicized Saxon Halloween tradition was a pilgrimage where family carried the bones and ashes of their relatives who died that year to a communal burial site for a 3-4 days long festival.
American Halloween traditions came from England originally then re-enforced later by Irish immigrants.We had mischief night and door to door trick or treat fancy dress traditions etc that died out here but carried on in America and now are coming back!
This reminds me of growing up on the farm and pickling & canning in the fall with my mother from our truck garden for the winter. 🥰 her pantry looks like the pantry for the pickled, dried, smoked & home canned foods i grew up with. As well as the dry grain ready to mill to make breads. We had friends that we traded for eggs and milk as well because we were well known for our good breads and rolls and canned goods.
Great stuff! Decent quality video not the usual crappy uploads of old videotapes. Still tired of TH-cam's saturation bombings of the same commercials again and again.
Hi - if you search for " Edwardian farm" on youtube, someone called Brad Collett has downloaded a really good video, with no issues. The same goes for Tales from the green valley, someone called permahome... etc. You can find all the farms these three people made with the BBC if you check out Ruth Goodman on the net.. I love these series! Good luck - stay safe.. greetings from Sweden!
I've watched this multiple times but this is the first time I actually saw a glimpse of the camera crew, well their shadows when the horses were first on the field
The Absolute History episodes are terrific. If I had one request it would be to please turn down the music. It contributes a lot to the tale telling, but often drowns out what the narrator is saying, which is a shame.
Oh my, I wish I could hear the narrative better. The music is so loud at times, it’s hard to hear what is being said. I really love watching “Absolute History”. I think I’ve seen 20 different episodes since I found your programs three days ago. I can’t seem to get enough of it! I’ve also introduced my sister to your shows. We are both in our 70’s and many nights have a hard time sleeping, we both binge watch in our separate homes till the wee hours of the morning. Thank you so much for all your wonderful work.
Hi - if you search for " Edwardian farm" on youtube, someone called Brad Collett has downloaded a really good video, with no issues. The same goes for Tales from the green valley, someone called permahome... etc. You can find all the farms these three people made with the BBC if you check out Ruth Goodman on the net.. I love these series! Good luck - stay safe.. greetings from Sweden!
This is a common complaint that I keep on seeing on here
I was wondering if I was the only one!! No idea why they uploaded it like this
While far from ideal, turning subtitles on allows you to lower the volume
Am I the only one who finds this adorable?! I wish me and my sister had such wholesome shared interests ♥️♥️♥️
i love how they never really break the general time theme, is in you never see a car to obvious in shot or a phone or something, it makes these docos way more interesting and kinda almost lets you suspend reality
Good old BBC! Who actually made these ...
Agreed. The modern pen in the limestone scene earlier almost spoiled things for me a moment.
BBC originally made these programs. They really know their stuff. Still happy they sold on the licenses for this so that the programs could be on TH-cam
And how they use old books for information rather than googling it!!
@@christinafidance340 yes! just like that, makes it really interesting and just different!
Ruth should do a cookbook i bet lots of people would buy it
You might check Amazon.
i would.
She should tell her daughter to trim her nails
@@spookayitsme Amen!
Definitely.
Honestly, the best part of this series is seeing all the artisans showing their craft
The English are great craftsmen. I learned my trade from one and he was truly a master.
I often wonder how many of them are doing it as a hobby and who is making a living off it.
Geez this year stint must have cost a pretty penny just setting up starter stock. That insta-herd of cattle was upwards of 20k alone. I yearn to return to this way of life. A tad different existence if I was to return this time period being Canadian but I feel much more attached to this then this plastic life we encounter today. I go out of my way to acquire new skills at any chance possible.
I think it was that man trying to milk that goat from behind 🤣
5:45 🤭 dignity
Ruth is one of those people who is super handy to have around. Not only is she knowledgeable and pragmatic, but she's a real grafter. She really reminds me of my mum in that respect
I could see myself doing this kind of farming, who needs TV or cell phone or electricity
She’s someone you definitely want on your Zombie Apocalypse Team!
I told my mom about her.
She's amazing
She never fails.
I don't know what a grafter is because I'm for California and extremely self centered, but that lady Ruth would be a great companion. She has a lucky husband/partner (you get what I'm saying)
Livestock expert: "The Ruby Red is a really quiet breed of - "
Cow: "MRRRRRRRROOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!"
This is not only re - making history but also learning survival skills.
Years ago, an Idaho woman named Karla Emory wrote a wonderful book about homesteading inamerica. If you are interested in this, I think you'd really be interested in this. Go-to a second hand book dealer andaask him to help you find one.
Correction.... interested in this kind of information and skills, you'd like Karla book on homesteading.
Could you turn the music up a bit, I nearly heard the narrator.
:)
All of them are like this 😫
Well said. I was going to be less polite but refrained because everything else was good.
Oh go on; theres no way you almost heard the narrator. That'd be like hearing the Enola Gay after the bomb went off...
Hahaha. Totally agree. Though I’ve found the auto-generated captions to be exceptionally good on this one. Turns a big problem into a minor inconvenience.
" and they're very quiet" *MOOOOOOOOOOO!!!*
Real-life interrupting cow joke.
You KNOW they had that planned to ham out on tv 😂
Lmao
😂😂😂🐮🐂🐂
Lol I haven't even started the documentary but i bet they are protesting something!!!
This series is absolutely priceless. I'm in love with it.
Luis Aldamiz ....me too!
Growing up in rural Britain this series has really made me feel connected to my village and ancestors. My great grandad was born in this time and I've just done my ancestry. We have lived in this village since time immemorial but we were very wealthy originally owning the best house in the valley but my great grandad squandered all the money and has lots of mistresses and wives and kids 😂
It really is great. It helps too that these guys doing a good job at sharing how much they enjoy making this and other historical recreation series.
☺️I accidentally fell asleep watching this episode and woke up to my kid sitting close to the TV absolutely entranced.
Make sure you dont miss Wartime Farm, Victorian Farm, Tudor Monastery Farm, Green Valley Farm, Victorian Farm Christmas, and Victorian Pharmacy
I agree. My favorite is the Tudor series.
"No one is under an illusions that market gardening is easy."-Ruth Goodman
As a modern day market gardener, I completely agree since we're doing all of the work by hand.
I wish these shows were still being made. I enjoy all of Alex's, Peter's and Ruth's trials and triumphs through the ages.
I agree completely
I think the most recent one is called "Full Steam Ahead"
Edit: It is, having been filmed in 2016
That "compromising position" for goat-milking is the way that my Grandmother taught me to milk them. It keeps them calm and makes things quicker-done, overall.
I can see that. You might even have more control of their back legs from that position
The goat standing in the milk bucket is a dominance display. You need to catch it's leg as it's raising it to step in the bucket, and keep raising it. It throws them totally off balance and they're too confused to try it again. Plus, it's hilarious.
The entire Farm Series is a triumph. I re-watch them over and over. Television at its very best.
Ruth and her daughter are just hilarious and so alike!!
Those clothes really suit Peter. He looks so handsome. I can actually imagine him in something by the Bronte sisters.
I could imagine him being in...well...:)
@@seantodd8875 You are not alone in this... ;P
I think that he is a doll. He has such a charming smile and attitude.
He's absolutely gorgeous 😍
Peter 🤩🥰 look grec or est europeen. He is not english 100 %
Having to hand milk goats when I was a child of 10 I learned very quickly, probably from an old farmer who told me so, you tie up the one foot because they can't take 2 ft off the ground so by tying one foot up they will not step in the pan nor kick you while you are milking
Goats hate this man because of this one weird trick!
valuable info. thanks for sharing.
@@ColonelSandersLite ha ha
My grandparents taught me how to milk cows and kill a chicken.
You kill a chicken with a long knitting needle you push into their brain through the beak because then they don't contract the muscles and the feathers come off much easier.
I raised goats when I was young. The "tying up a foot" trick doesn't work. I had to learn to use my shoulder and quick hands to keep their feet out of the pan.
Wish the music wasn't louder than the person talking . They're already talking soft enough when the music is going.
The captions don't help either because they keep turning off after two minutes or so.
Use headphones
Stop crying 😢
It's a trick to keep the copyright infringement Bots confused. All of these shows are actually produced by the BBC.
Update since I originally posted this it has come to my attention that absolute history and timeline actually have rights to show this from the new owners since BBC sold the rights to these particular shows. BBC archives still contain all the old websites related to the show
@@angelwhispers2060 That makes a lot of sense! I don't remember the audio being so unbalanced when I watched them in the original
Many many times our modern life can be taken for granted, experiencing past historical eras with these incredible knowledgeable geniuses, really opens up my heart to see the real value in life....
For those having trouble: I've noticed that the audio issue (loud music, quiet vocal track) seems to be a problem with a lot of BBC productions. It seems I can always solve the issue by wearing headphones - it seems to even things out.
Noticed it while wearing headphones, ... so nope :P
I mirror screen to my television and I only notice occasionally.
Having seen these air on TV originally I also noticed that the audio is weird on here, I do wonder if its to do with being made for television.
Peter does what it takes to get results. All of them actually.
Good Lord those horses are wonderful! Absolutely magnificent. I understand why tractors were introduced, but such a lot was lost when those magnificent horses were replaced!
working horses had very , very hard lives, [not to mention they were sent to war to pull wagons and guns]. and were sent to slaughter when their working days were over. thank God for tractors which spared the horses. There will always be draft horse enthusiasts who keep the horses as a hobby with comfortable lives for us to enjoy
Horses are magnificent animals.
Check out "Heavy Horses" by Jethro Tull. A lament to the loss of these working horses
@@faytheweber8578 well, these horses only work here and there. And are specifically bred to work, and NEED to work. Tractors introduce vast amounts of smoke and toxic chemicals into the environment, and the introduction enabled factory farming to bloom, which is a large cause of global warming due to tilling and lack of soil care.
Coming from a farmer & homesteader.
So sad after their usefulness & replaced by cars they were sent to the knacker
This is my favorite thing to watch right now. I'm from America but my ancestors are from Scotland and England so I love seeing how they would have lived. Also this trio is fantastic together
I'm from Romania and so, I have absolutely NOTHING to do with how Brits have lived ages ago, but damn if this documentary is not entertaining as fuck! I have wasted 2 days worth of daily chores by not being able to stop watching the "Secrets of the Castle", "Victorian Farm" and now "Edwardian Farm" series. And I'm not even fond of history in general (not even my own country's history, much less England's history) but this re-enacting show is so good that I can't even....
I also have ancestry in the UK (England, Scotland, Ireland)! I also love watching historical documentaries! It gives me a greater respect for those that have come before.
@@Stoogewriter must be odd not knowing the ins and outs of your ancestry, i mean - you could know a lot, but if you live here a lot of people are well aware of what their family's job was or what happened to their ancestors hundreds of years back. Quite fascinating really. I just love walking around and seeing 400 year old houses like it's nothing
@@Stoogewriter same! I love it ❤️❤️ I'm 40% British, 37% Scottish, 13% Irish and 10% Norwegian. My family finished coming to the US around 1775. I just love Britain and it's history 🥰🇺🇲🇬🇧
Me too!!! Oh how I long to visit the lands of my ancestors 🥺
27:40 I now understand what "I'm in a pickle" means - that you are in a situation that is hard to get out of, "preserving" your state
My kind of analogy.....the over analyzed kind 😂
I liked the "all out of sorts" saying from the tudor times
Prince and Tom are truly magnificent animals. Well cared for, healthy, happy, and blessed with that Shire quality of humble majesty. Good boys.
The flavor of chicken, I can relate to. My 103 year old Aunt and 80 year old Mother talks about the no flavor chicken we have today.
No shop bought chook will ever taste like a home reared one. utterly different animal!
No joke supermarkt chicken is flavorless compared to home grown chicken raised chicken for eggs when they stop laying we fatten them up for the pot so yummy
That's because supermarket chickens are culled very young so they have no fat in them. The birds are just injected with hormone to put on a lot of meat but they have no fat on them to flavor anything. Turkey's are even worse, significantly more meat, roughly same amount of fat. We've just accepted that the flavor has to come from the oil (fried) or 'flavor injectors.' You want a good flavorful meat, you need an old bird, with a good amount of fat. It's the difference between taste/sustenance.
I was just having this conversation today. I stopped eating chicken for a while when I returned from provencal France. It was alarming how much better the chicken from the small markets were there vs. how they are here in the States 😕
The meat you get from a small, locally sourced butcher is way better than supermarket meat. I buy meat from the local butcher whenever I can afford it cuz it's just so much tastier. Also, it supports local farms and since the meat doesn't travel very far, is better for the environment.
I love these series. The only criticism I have is the volume of the music drowns out the narration often.
thats cuz this is a pirate copy of a dvd that this crap youtube page uploaded thru a $2 mono headphone cord. Try buying the dvd's from the BBC if you want quality. You get what you pay for and you pay nothing for youtube, so...........
Did quite at the end there :/
I was a docent at Sotterley Plantation in Southern Maryland, US. In the smokehouse they still have a ham trough to salt the meat in. The trough is almost a meter across and almost 2 meters long and was hollowed out from a solid piece of oak back in the 1700's.
Wow.
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@@darkfireeyes7 That's what she said
I am surprised that Ruth Goodman is surprised (at 17:50) tasting pickled apples. Growing up in Ukraine, that was one of my favorite common-folks foods. You could buy them on any farmer market in winter time, when other fruits were not available. My grandma knew at least TWO DOZENS recipes of pickled apples, plus few recipes of apple cider and apple wine.
Wow but are they good-well mind they must have been-like a relish-just rolling over in my mind-best be off after 5am here🤭
Haha. I'm American, of German and Ukrainian decent. My great grandma used to make pickles apples, always had them at Christmas. No one over here knew what the hell they were.
@@funsizedi88 mine too. Mom was from Pennsylvania and set the table with "7 sweets and 7 sours' little bowls of baby dill and bread and butter pickles, spicedpeaches 3 crabapple, Cole slaw vinegared w and sour cream, cottage cheese and apple butter, pickled beets beeteggs, corn relish.. The LouisianaCajunscallthese "LAGNIAPPE" ( thelittleextra).
:) I've a Ukrainian heritage and I've never heard of them, but I'm so very fond of pickles, so I'm looking forward to trying them.
I cant stop binging these three, it really is 10/10 entertainment
The sound mixing needs to balance out the music with the voice over. Really hard to hear the narration over the music.
Hi - if you search for " Edwardian farm" on youtube, someone called Brad Collett has downloaded a really good video, with no issues. The same goes for Tales from the green valley, someone called permahome... etc. You can find all the farms these three people made with the BBC if you check out Ruth Goodman on the net.. I love these series! Good luck - stay safe.. greetings from Sweden!
that halloween dinner was such a vibe. i wish i was invited.
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I am a huge fan of that Professor that comes in to party with all the Folklore. I can never hear his name, and Closed Captioning doesn’t pick it up. I LOVE his portion of the show. He would be my favorite person at any party!!!
Professor Ronald Hutton, maybe?
@@stanlygirl5951 that's correct, it's Prof Hutton. He has several books out including Stations of the Sun.
Prof Hutton has a series of lectures on TH-cam through Gresham College. Really liked the Dragon one.
What a gem this channel is, so glad came across this.
This series in INCREDIBLE!!!
I love the fact that the strawberry plants that were planted a hundred years ago were still growing and thriving on the platou, just waiting for someone to return and give them a chance again...
I love all the "farms" y'all have done. Ruth rocks she's cool as hell. Peter is a brute what a stud muffin.
You sound like a Southern girl from the U. S. Are you?
@@duaneputnam9923 from the U.S. yes, but I am an army brat. I lived in the south briefly. I spent most of my younger years in Germany.
'yall' didnt do anything. These are old BBC shows mate......you didnt actually think this bullshit youtube page made these?
@@celtoloco788 no we know they are old BBC shows. We just watch them on you tube. I still enjoy them.
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Ruth's daughter; "and the trotter"
Ruth; "that's for tea"
Ruth's daughter; *Absolutely disgusted.
I suppose mum doesn't bring work home with her often ey?
@Silicon Nomad Tea is a synonym for dinner in some places. I use it interchangeably.
@@jackdurston8073 oooh!!! In Texas, it means literal tea. Usually iced tea. 😂 probably not the most appealing combination.
@Silicon Nomad tea = dinner in England
@@spookayitsme I thought tea was an afternoon around 4 pick me up thing before supper?
@@michealpersicko9531 some people in England (and some other countries ie- Australia) use the word tea to mean dinner. It's often interchangeably used to refer to both. Tho I've not specifically heard it used as a reference specifically to a 4pm pick-me-up
Professor Hutton always adds a little extra to the end.
RUTH is a frakin' legend
Ah,scrumpy. Nectar of the Gods,that. 40 years ago I visited England and and a friend took me out to Devon. 3 pints of scrumpy and a pub lunch,we fell asleep on the train back,and woke up feeling wonderful. Found a place in Putney that sold the stuff bulk. Very different from beer. I can only hope that it is still available for those who like it.
paul manson I live near the scrumpy farms. It is sold in the supermarkets near me, I’ve also seen it in Swansea, don’t know if its sold anywhere else.
Scrumpy will always be around: the process for making it is about as simple as "pulp apples, leave in sanitized container a few months so nature can take its course"
Sounds like what I see labeled hard cider.
I live in Bristol (South West England), scrumpy is alive and well here! As is mead.
@@OpalWilde I am absolutely delighted to hear it.
This is soooo good! Educational, reviving history, traditions, aiming for a more self sustainable life, closer to nature. And... amusing. The archeology/history team is a brilliant mix! I just wish they made more if this stuff!
Ruth is such a Beautiful Soul!!! I could watch her research daily. Alex and Peter are such a cool combination of hard work, open minds, and teaching.
May God’s Blessings Always be theirs.
Ruth is awesome. Always full of cheer
Three people who are so important to me, three friends that have gotten me through so much in my life and they’ll probably never even know about it. Thank you Ruth, Peter, and Alex. ❤
i absolutely love these series. The only thing this season that's bothering me is the imbalanced sound quality of the videos. The background music so far has been vastly too loud. then the mic sound from our people is either too loud, or muffled. the quality of this season so far has been subpar with editing quality
Hi - if you search for " Edwardian farm" on youtube, someone called Brad Collett has downloaded a really good video, with no issues. The same goes for Tales from the green valley, someone called permahome... etc. You can find all the farms these three people made with the BBC if you check out Ruth Goodman on the net.. I love these series! Good luck - stay safe.. greetings from Sweden!
Were you allowed to call a farm animal “king Edward” or “prince” without being arrested for blasphemy?
“One word, Peter: dignity” 🤣🤣🤣
blasphemy? i think someone confuses it with Lèse-majesté here en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A8se-majest%C3%A9 this isnt ancient rome for emperors to call themselves gods and Edward wasnt like ... head of church was he?
Galad Ballcrusher Actually yes. King Edward was the head of the Church of England, just as Queen Elizabeth is today.
@@theheartoftexas head of church and actual GOD are two different things tho
Those shire horses are truly magnificent!
55:30-56:15 An ascotted Professor Hutton at his dramatic best! He even gets atmospheric music this time, not that he needs it.🎃
I love Professor Hutton in everything he shows up in-- this, Time Team, he's such a gem!
@@MoonLitChild He really is very informative and quite the lovable eccentric. Some people think he's weird (yes, but in a good way) and that I'm weird for enjoying his appearances (sod them-Lol). I'm not sure I've seen him on "Time Team"-I've seen Ruth once and Alex a few times, but never Hutton ... I'll have to look up which episodes he's in. Thanks!
"He has got aristocratic lines."
King David II: _taking a massive piss_
I have noticed this in most english documantaries, the music is so loud it covers the voices of the people
It's great to see Alex finally being MORE part of the heavy work instead of putting it all on Peter!
Professor Ronald Hutton is an absolute treasure. I LOVE him!
"This is the season when the wild geese come over, and their voices and voice of the wind, wailing about the moor. You hear... the gabriel hounds, the witch hounds, the hounds of Hell, dark with fiery eyes and tongues... coming for you in the night! And as you pass the abandon mine shaft the more you hear the air trapped, sobbing withing...! You hear the voices, the souls in Hell, rising... in torment...
And that's how you know Christmas was on it's way!"
KanaidBlack “...they call the wind, Maria...}
Autumn?
Thats a relief! Christmas is on its way . The day our saviour was born so that if we believe in Him we don't have to join the writhing and wailing of the souls in hell.
Personally I prefer all saints to Halloween which is celebrated on Ist November. It's generally more cheerful.
Peter looked scared. 👻
Imagine a country lad walking up and watching Peter's goat milking technique! LoL we hobble the nannies when you milk no muss no fuss! We also strain the apple cider and feed the mush to the hogs along with the acorns and forage makes for some very nice pork !
Where are the real Edwardian now who lived there years back?
Hobbling sounds like a very good idea. I'll have to remember that if I ever have goats.
Can't hear the narration over the booming music forcing them to the background
Caelestis Nox I’ve heard at some point it was something about putting the video on TH-cam that messes with it, But that doesn’t make much sense to me so I’m not sure.
@@dannydethanos6994 they licenced this show from the bbc. Some people claim that on original broadcast it was fine. But every official upload on streaming services I have tried watching it on sounds like this
th-cam.com/video/hrSB6RZbIhY/w-d-xo.html this with good sound
@@nmosfet5797 thank you
Hi - if you search for " Edwardian farm" on youtube, someone called Brad Collett has downloaded a really good video, with no issues. The same goes for Tales from the green valley, someone called permahome... etc. You can find all the farms these three people made with the BBC if you check out Ruth Goodman on the net.. I love these series! Good luck - stay safe.. greetings from Sweden!
Shout out to Ruth for being a complete legend and straight up bare handing that chicken to clean out the innards. It had to be done, but she didn't even blink twice.
the banjo as the bulls big red arse was fucking off in the completely wrong direction had me creased xD
These are my favorite videos to fall asleep sleep to.
I love 💕 watching this program. How they did things back then and how people actually lived. I love RUTH AND PETER. I love seeing the Edwardian Era.
The sailor singing Santy Anno was a gem.
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How did Ruth learn all this? She’s amazing! I wanted to tell her daughter, “Listen, listen, remember!”
Have you watched the Tudor Monastery Farm series? It features an adult Eve. She has followed in her historian mother's footsteps and learned the art of Tudor-style bookbinding. She does a whole segment on her own, explaining and showing how books were made in the 1500s.
I finished the Victorian Farm series on Christmas Eve and now on to the Edwardian series. I can't stop!
Prof Hutton is the best Halloween party guest ever!
These were the days when operation Market Garden was still a great idea.
99% of those over 25 have no idea what you're talking about.
To all the people asking/complaining about the sound--this channel didn't make the series (the BBC did, 10 years ago).
I love Ruth, Alex and Peter!
I adore these series, I have no illusions about how hard this life is but the idea of being able to grow and eat as much of my own food as possible is my end goal for my life
That's a profit between 4,953.48 and £7,430.22 per acre in 2019. Also, I'm ADDCITED to these series' and have been binging every one.
man ive got to say as a history nut seeing this farm, it really brings this era of farming and people to life.
I am really glad I found this channel! Absolutely fascinating!!
Love the Edwardian era, my mothers, mother grew up in a tiny village in the south of England. The family decided to move to New Zealand, two sons were to go first with their sister (about 18yr old) to cook and clean for them. WW1 broke out and the rest of the family couldn’t travel to join them. It was 10years later that they were reunited. My Nana had married in NZ and had my mother. The family left in England had another son the same age as my mother when they finally arrived in NZ. As a child I couldn’t understand how Mum had an uncle the same age as her.
My village in south west England, was the birth place of Francis Trask.(1840 - 6 April 1910) He was a 20th-century Member of the New Zealand Legislative Council and Mayor of Nelson.
You can look up the 1911 Census on the internet, maybe learn a little more about where your family was from.
Watching Eve do all these things when she was younger knowing she eventually became an apprentice bookbinder is awesome!
Remember watching this back in like, 2013. So good to see it on here now.
i want the board of agriculture and fisheries leaflets. Wish covid 19 I think we need to go back to the days that is in this series. Found it on Google books for free. fascinating read.
@Silicon Nomad I think they just mean a more traditional way of life lol!
Thank you soooooooo much for posting this! I just adore these types of programs! Super excited to watch 🤓
A great many standard varieties of apple tree bear fruit only every second year. The off year may see a small crop -- maybe 10% of the bearing year's, a handful of apples, or simply no fruit at all.
There's a small forest near my home in which an apple tree is growing wild and it's pretty old. I can't recall the name of the apples but it's Norwegian or Danish. Anyway it produces apples every two years; they're pretty small and not very sweet but they make very good juice and sauce.
Love the channel but seriously a commercial or two every frickin few minutes is obnoxious.
Just counted 18 commercials! TH-cam is bonkers.
So it's like that everywhere?
If you fast forward to the end then hit replay the commercials aren't there anymore
Just download either uBlock Origin or fucking AdBlock Plus and join us in the 21st century.
I have premium which takes out the ads but still supports channels
I love Ruth. Such a Gem!
Edwardian sound mixing at its finest
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i am learning a lot from this show. how cute they eat from his hand. Aww.
I love this program & love this trio even more!!
5:47 I've never been more jealous of a goat before in my life, and I've been jealous of several goats ...
@Straight Razor Daddy Lol-It has nothing to do with cider, but the milk is potable.
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@@darklymoonlit 😉
@@wynterwren1155 Lol! 🐐🐐
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I love this trio. I just recently fell into their entire catalog of videos and I'm in love
I'm always so impressed when I see Eve's nails. :o
Whoever was in charge of wardrobe did Peter so dirty during this series! He looks uncomfortable doing all that work in clothes that are too tight for him. Poor guy.
I am loving this series, and Peter is my new man-crush.
Aww I'd love it if we still celebrated the traditional un-Americanised Halloween here in the UK! I feel like we've lost touch with all that tradition, as much as I enjoy how we do it these days
the un-Anglicized Saxon Halloween tradition was a pilgrimage where family carried the bones and ashes of their relatives who died that year to a communal burial site for a 3-4 days long festival.
@@maxdecphoenix yeah I think I’d prefer the American version then.
At one point in America the American Halloween was known as "Irish Halloween".
American Halloween traditions came from England originally then re-enforced later by Irish immigrants.We had mischief night and door to door trick or treat fancy dress traditions etc that died out here but carried on in America and now are coming back!
This reminds me of growing up on the farm and pickling & canning in the fall with my mother from our truck garden for the winter. 🥰 her pantry looks like the pantry for the pickled, dried, smoked & home canned foods i grew up with. As well as the dry grain ready to mill to make breads. We had friends that we traded for eggs and milk as well because we were well known for our good breads and rolls and canned goods.
I want to be just like Ruth when I grow up.
Wish you guys would do this experiment for a lot more old eras.
I would so love to be taught by all three of them!
Great stuff! Decent quality video not the usual crappy uploads of old videotapes. Still tired of TH-cam's saturation bombings of the same commercials again and again.
Hi - if you search for " Edwardian farm" on youtube, someone called Brad Collett has downloaded a really good video, with no issues. The same goes for Tales from the green valley, someone called permahome... etc. You can find all the farms these three people made with the BBC if you check out Ruth Goodman on the net.. I love these series! Good luck - stay safe.. greetings from Sweden!
My grandma use to pickle apples for us kids in the summer. Truly delicious
I can tell this is one of Eve's more favorite appearances in the show :)
I love these shows!
The way they use the term "concern" is new to me.
I've watched this multiple times but this is the first time I actually saw a glimpse of the camera crew, well their shadows when the horses were first on the field
I have no idea why I love this stuff, it's soon hard to explain to others
The Absolute History episodes are terrific. If I had one request it would be to please turn down the music. It contributes a lot to the tale telling, but often drowns out what the narrator is saying, which is a shame.
I want a pair of giant horses. I’m also low key in love with the lass who owned the magnificent beast.