I love how when someone compliments Ruth on something she made, she says "yeah it came out great!" and gushes about it. It's clearly not in a selfish way, more so with enthusiasm for the technique and respect for the history. Love this series!
@@willisfisher46 I’ve been watching this series since before I was old enough to even remember it. It was a tradition of my family to watching Victorian Farm Christmas on Xmas eve, and I always said I wanted to be like Ruth Goodman when I grew up. Well, now I’m in my second year of my undergrad in history, so it looks like I’m getting there!
@@katecalhoun1104 Oh congratulations! That's fantastic for you! When did these series originally get released for viewing? I came across them around Xmas 2020 while dealing with some medical issues. I have enjoyed them thoroughly and watched, I believe, at least most of the series.
Our blacksmith here in my little village in Germany was a farrier, too. He could do great ornamentic decorations for your home. But he was absolutely fantastic with horses. He never used pre-made horse shoes, he made them all from scratch. You went to him especially when your horse had problems with his hooves or had an illness/malposition. He took his time and helped the horse the best he could. Some horses only lived as long as they did because of him. Unfortunately he died several years ago, he was way in his 80s. I'm a bit sad, with the death of people like him a great knowledge also died, because there are too few who want to learn such crafts with all the secrets involved. Many things will be lost this way.
@@sylviatamieanan4088 In daily talk we often use the german word "Schmied" (blacksmith) for both meanings, people understand that. But technically they are not the same, we here in Germany have many regulations! If anybody want to work in this field they have to take an apprenticeship as a blacksmith for at least 3,5 years. After the successful conclusion they are professional metal workers. They mostly work in the different industries. Some of these workers want to specialize themselves, so they have to go to advanced trainings, as an ornamental blacksmith or a farrier. The training as farrier takes at least 2,5 years, so many decide against it. So you first need to be a blacksmith (or something similar) and then you can become a farrier. Most of the old blacksmiths (60 years and above), especially in rural areas, had the farrier part already in their blacksmith apprenticeship, because horses were more common and often used then.
You will be happy to know that my cousin who is 27 has been making his own shoes for every horse he does, he makes them on the day and makes them to fit, hot shoeing for the best fit! He did his blacksmith/farrier apprenticeship years ago and everyone he does loves him and say their horses no longer have problems
@@sylviatamieanan4088 probably because the blacksmiths first job was shoeing horses, the other stuff they did with metal came later, eg, the nails they made for horse shoes began to be used in other trades, the shoe maker and or woodworking where they previously used dowels
I just want to say I absolutely adore this series (along with the other farm life ones)! I'm not even British but I've always been fascinated by how folks lived back before the "modern" era. It's mind opening and entertaining! I also love Ruth, Alex, and Peter! Please never stop making these excellent videos! 🙏
"Dont pussyfoot, you won't hurt it" ... i really REALLY love this old timer!!! He in his old age is still in charge and in command of that forge. I love it. Wish this individual was in more episodes!
This has been a very wholesome and heartwarming series. Normally I’m the grinch when it come to Christmas but I have to say my heart grew three times by the episodes end.
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What a lovely Christmas gift that they posted these extra episodes so we could go back to the Victorian farm one more time. Out of all the Farm series, the Victorian is my favorite. Glad they still have Clumper too. Such a handsome boy.
Love this one. It's especially important to me because my granddad was born very near the Acton estate and I expect many of the traditions mentioned here would be a part of my family's life.
is there a better way to show history than living it? I love thses series. My fave one still is the making of a castle, but all of them are fabulous! thank you for the effort!
My great great grandfather was a woodworker, he made furniture's. He would make toys for the poor kids in the neighborhood, of scrap wood, and hand them out for Christmas.
How delightful !. I still have a dolly bed my grandfather made me when I was little. He made it like something from his boyhood. It has red painted trim like 1915. I love it. Thank you for sharing.
@@birdsflowers2289until about 5 years ago (when I sold my home of 21 years), I had a doll cradle made by my grandfather, for my mother, in the late 1930’s or early 40’s. She had Re-painted it to match my room in the 60’s-70’s, with the same flowered “Tole painting” style “headboard” she’d done on my wall (I had allergies, and she was avoiding anything that could build up dust). My daughter used it in the early 2000’s (with her American Girl dolls), and then I gave it away to a mother with several young girls, in the final days of my living in my house in CA (2017). I was happy to know it would be loved some more. :)
I really enjoyed this. I see many similarities to how my American family celebrated Christmas.Clear down to the act of feeding the wild birds. ❤️Thank you for warming my heart
Love this video!! So cool to see the history behind a lot of Christmas traditions!! I was a bit excited too because John Horsley (artist behind the Christmas card) is a direct ancestor of mine!!
Wonderful. Such a great series. After doing Renaissance Faires and finding out how to do things the way they did, these shows are great to see how things advance and yet... stay the same. Merry Christmas Everyone!!!
I used to have one of those pianos when I was young. They were so much fun during Christmas we would all sing and have it play a song and us little kids would jingle bells and cowbells.
I watched this on Christmas Day 2024 and it was surreal to realize that here I am watching Christmas traditions of a bygone era over 100 years ago on a piece of modern tech that would've been considered magic at that time. 😂
I love watching these three historians and t their trips back in time. So fascinating! My mother always gave each of us children an orange and a pound of real butter (something very special and usually expensive the rest of the year). I'm so happy I have these memories and passed it down to my own son. He also fondly looks forward to these shocking gifts. We almost l looked forward to our stockings more than the actual gifts, almost. My mother to this day in her 80's still makes sure that everyone has their traditional stockings. I absolutely love it and I'm in my 60's now.
My two sisters and I grew up getting nuts in shells, oranges and apples in large stockings our mother made when I was seven years old. I still hang mine every Christmas and I am 77 years old. My kids make sure it is filled every year. Great memories!
I would've been a blacksmith for sure if i lived in the past. I just feel a connection with it :) Thanks for this christmas present of a mini series ❤️
So late to this comment, but I know a blacksmith and he keeps quite busy. I only know specifically of his business within pagan and renfair circles, but I’m sure he has customers for all sorts. Worth looking more into if you’re interested!
Actually, my family here in Germany does put up smaller decorations around the house weeks before Christmas, but we always wait until Christmas Eve to put up the tree.
Curious, when do you usually take it down? In America, we typically put our up around 01 Dec. then take it down (dried up) about a week after new year. No fire hazard with LED lights. 😁
When I was a child the tree would only be taken down somewhen in January, but these days it‘s usually before new year. As a matter of fact, my father just took everything down, and it‘s only the 29th.
@ stargate,, WOW.. that is cool. If I put the tree up on Xmas Eve. I would be so behind. I have 40 boxes of Christmas to put up. It takes 3 days to put up... I love Christmas 🎄⛄.... I love old traditions too.
"Here's a toast to them as we love, and a toast to them that loves us.....AND here's to them who loves them who loves those who loves those who loves them that loves us...." 😂 🍻🤤🍻 (Hours later, he's still toasting....🤣)
32:35 "not from chemicals, but from nature" should actually be "not synthetically, but organically". It's still chemicals that do the dyeing - be it from a synthetic source or an organic one like a plant.
OH, how disgusting! I"ve never liked strawberry anything, especially things artificially flavored strawberry, like pudding, ice cream, margaritas, etc. I can barely eat whole, fresh berries, but not flavoring! When i make "strawberry shortcake" in the summer, I always substitute raspberries. They greatly improve the dish in my opinion. When I got a daughter-in-law who is alergic to strawberries, it was perfect! Now the raspberries aren't my "fault" anymore and I'm not "forcing" my tastes onto others!! Now I have another reason to avoid commercial strawberry flavoring--its all full of BUGS! V Very interesting. Thank you.
It still amazes me how people worked out some of the ways to make things. I mean, who would even KEEP stale urine, let alone think that it might be useful to colourise ribbons!
@@sheilaboston7051 I've often thought that people appear to be very clever in earlier times because they had to be in order to survive; conversely, many today appear the opposite because the dire challenges to survival have, for most people, been removed .
Queen Charlotte, wife of George III also brought the Christmas Tree tradition, only then it was only within the royal household. It was card showing the royal family around their tree that popularized it
39:40 Here in Germany many people look for their Christmas tree and decorate it on Christmas eve. It was considered modest before, nowadays is more of a family tradition thing. I myself like to put it on before (to be able to really enjoy it), but my father-in-law still believes it must be decorated only until December 24th. He's almost 70 years old. 51:00 Here in Germany children leave, on the night of December 5th, a polished shoe outside their door. During the night/early morning, the shoe gets stuffed with oranges, sweets, and maybe a little toy. It's called Nikolaustag (and it's celebrated on the morning of December 6th).
Some people here in the states celebrate a version of Nikolaustag (my family calls it St Nick's and we use big decorative stockings instead of shoes). Even though the emphasis is on the children, adults in the family often receive treats and small presents as well. My family would always wake up extra early before work or school that day to dig into our stockings together. It felt like a miniature Christmas day celebration, nothing that fancy, but always enough to get everyone excited and into the holiday spirit. Now as an adult, I still always make sure that my husband and I's stockings are hung by Dec 5th so that I can fill them with some chocolates for us to enjoy the morning of the 6th.
The Christmas card portion intrigued me! The first Christmas card was penned Merry Christmas. This makes me wonder when and how Brits started and continued the phrase as Happy Christmas and Americans continuation of Merry Christmas 😮
Those cows looked as if they could have happily dispensed with the Christmas singing. Like, “yeah, you sing to me today, but you’ll happily send me to the butcher tomorrow.”
Honestly, wassailing has nothing to do with the birth of Christ. Singing to beasts and plants, thanking them instead of thanking the CREATOR who made them, is a bit pagan. It was a pagan practice orginially. Not saying it doen't have a sentimental meaning or fun for those who did, and do it still.
Love this series. Shows all the hard work in a day. Very few of us could live like this now. We are used to all the convenaces of the time. I have lived a off grid lifestyle, hauled my own water and cooked on coal fires. Did my wash by hand. No electricity, except for a small generator for watching DVDs. My only modern convenience. I enjoyed it for awhile. It was a life experience. I am back in a house with all the bells and whistles. Both have there merits
I love this series so much, from whatever historical period it is. My major in university was history, specializing in European / British history, and then after I graduated from school, I got involved in the Society for Creative Anachronism, which recreates living history from about 500 AD to 1650 AD. with regular feasts and tournaments, with period weapons, clothing, food, and other period crafts, like, of course, blacksmithing. I collected medieval recipes in Latin and English, worked them up, and published a little book, and also wrote a book for society people on how to construct medieval clothing. A lot of the plants for food and color, and other methods of creating things, continued down through the Victorian period. Every so often, I will see something and go, "Oh, I remember doing that in the SCA!" I so wish I could have been involved in creating this series.
AND Ruth's planting a garden....In the winter?.... Not here in Minnesota! (Wouldn't even be able to turn the soil with it frozen hard as a rock through April....) 😂❄☃❄
West Gallery Music is such fun to play and it was a surprise and a pleasure to hear it at 52:00 and to have the historian explaining it to the congregants. Hooray and Enjoy!
It wasn't Queen Victoria that brought in such activities. It was Prince Albert of Germany, like the Germans in colonial America that changed up the holy days. Norse-German lights (candles) on pine trees since the days of Luther - not in England nor colonial American until the Hanovers came into England, and Germans into America. And Charles Dickens and his Christmas story also created a national movement.
Queen Charlotte of Mecklinburg-Strelitz (George III's wife) actually brought them over, but Prince Albert popularized them with public in general as part of their campaign to present themselves as family oriented. The prints of the royal tree surrounded by the Royal family and Leitzen were the popular prints of the day.
It wasn't Prince Albert that introduced the Christmas tree to England. It was actually Queen Charlotte, also from Germany, that brought the Christmas tree tradition to England.
Queen Charlotte, George the III's wife actually brought the Christmas tree to Britain. Prince Albert popularized it, but did not introduce it to Britain. The music as Alex lights the forge fire is used in "Great British Ghosts" season 1 & 2!
I think in the States extreme dehydrated wood would be the coke or dried out charcoal. My parents to this day send out Christmas cards and stamps in the USA nowadays are expensive, about 55 cents a piece. Loved the ferrier, he really knew his stuff and reminded me when i lived in a small town growing up and everyone had horses. I live in Texas and we have all kinds of horses out here and being a ferrier is a good job to have.
Sandi here- When I was learning blacksmithing (I made a hook with a curl and a twist), I learned one major difference between the hammerwork in carpentry vs. the hammerwork in blacksmithing - with carpentry, you hit the metal (nail) until it goes in all the way; With blacksmithing, you hit the metal until it is what you want it to be.
I love them all, even Edwardian Farm but Wartime Farm is my favorite. I was glad they cut a few characters after Tales from the Green Valley but Kept Mr Hutton on the history of festivities!
Finde die Sendung victorian oder edwarding farms einfach toll bitte mehr davon komme aus germany vielleicht geht es auch mit deutschen Untertitel das wäre toll man würde viel mehr verstehen ❤❤❤❤
❤Guardo estasiata la storia inglese le ricette meravigliose, epoca vittoriana con la sua eleganza, arti culinarie e storia, carretti, cavalli carrozze ....❤❤❤
One of the hard things about living in the southern hemisphere is that there is no celebration or anything midwinter. For us it's just drudging through the entire way and I can absolutely see the benefit of having something like Christmas to brighten and energise people. The Seasonal depression where I live is incredibly common. I think something to look forward to would help a lot with that.
These holidays are really important. I’ve often thought that people crave a celebration on the solstice, the equinox, and the halfway points between. Many people I know will pick a minor holiday, birthday or sporting event around those 8 days, and use it as a relief valve for some necessary merriment.
@@Author.Noelle.Alexandria I can’t believe the Victorians we’re responsible, no wait... IN FACT I CAN’T BELIEVE I DIDN’T REALIZE IT SOONER! OF COURSE THEY DID! 🤣
In my country "pudding" comes in vanilla / chocolate...lol. "Putting it on cloth is a much better thing than a sheep's stomach." AMEN. Your guy's cakes turned out to look yummy!
The Romans used to roast a Chicken, stuffed into a Duck, stuffed into a Goose, stuffed into a Pig, stuffed into a Cow. And then it roasted for like a week.
Well, the "India-hen" (aka turkey) was just becoming readily available to the every day Englander during the Victorian era.... Thanks to the burgeoning turkey industry, turkey became affordable to the average person. Before then, it was mostly a delicacy for the nobility. (Turkeys first arrived in England in 1526 through a sailor named William Strickland.) Aaaand, I'm done with my random turkey rant now.... 🤪
am I the only one who finds it hilarious that they always call these two grown men "THE BOYS"? Gives me a good chuckle every time. Is this a British thing? Either way, I'm absolutely loving it. Plus I'm finding it curious that many of the savory dishes are called pies or pudding lol.
@@lisalapoint7022 Very true, I think it's more of a British saying, but it's really cute and kinda fitting despite them also being very mature and respectable gentlemen it seems
I love how when someone compliments Ruth on something she made, she says "yeah it came out great!" and gushes about it. It's clearly not in a selfish way, more so with enthusiasm for the technique and respect for the history. Love this series!
I find Ruth lovely and would like to have tea with her.
@@willisfisher46 I’ve been watching this series since before I was old enough to even remember it. It was a tradition of my family to watching Victorian Farm Christmas on Xmas eve, and I always said I wanted to be like Ruth Goodman when I grew up. Well, now I’m in my second year of my undergrad in history, so it looks like I’m getting there!
@@katecalhoun1104 Oh congratulations! That's fantastic for you! When did these series originally get released for viewing? I came across them around Xmas 2020 while dealing with some medical issues. I have enjoyed them thoroughly and watched, I believe, at least most of the series.
Agreed!!
Shes clearly putting all the blame on how well the previous generations baked th3se dishes
Our blacksmith here in my little village in Germany was a farrier, too. He could do great ornamentic decorations for your home. But he was absolutely fantastic with horses. He never used pre-made horse shoes, he made them all from scratch. You went to him especially when your horse had problems with his hooves or had an illness/malposition. He took his time and helped the horse the best he could. Some horses only lived as long as they did because of him. Unfortunately he died several years ago, he was way in his 80s. I'm a bit sad, with the death of people like him a great knowledge also died, because there are too few who want to learn such crafts with all the secrets involved. Many things will be lost this way.
That difference he talks about strikes me, because in Portuguese "blacksmith" and "farrier" are the same word.
@@sylviatamieanan4088 In daily talk we often use the german word "Schmied" (blacksmith) for both meanings, people understand that. But technically they are not the same, we here in Germany have many regulations!
If anybody want to work in this field they have to take an apprenticeship as a blacksmith for at least 3,5 years. After the successful conclusion they are professional metal workers. They mostly work in the different industries. Some of these workers want to specialize themselves, so they have to go to advanced trainings, as an ornamental blacksmith or a farrier. The training as farrier takes at least 2,5 years, so many decide against it. So you first need to be a blacksmith (or something similar) and then you can become a farrier.
Most of the old blacksmiths (60 years and above), especially in rural areas, had the farrier part already in their blacksmith apprenticeship, because horses were more common and often used then.
Bless you
You will be happy to know that my cousin who is 27 has been making his own shoes for every horse he does, he makes them on the day and makes them to fit, hot shoeing for the best fit! He did his blacksmith/farrier apprenticeship years ago and everyone he does loves him and say their horses no longer have problems
@@sylviatamieanan4088 probably because the blacksmiths first job was shoeing horses, the other stuff they did with metal came later, eg, the nails they made for horse shoes began to be used in other trades, the shoe maker and or woodworking where they previously used dowels
Puddings in “standy-uppy shapes”. Ruth is so lovely and down-to-earth. I think she’s the bee’s knees.
Ruth can only survive on the island she’s on.
Standy-uppy shapes needs to be added to Webster’s/Oxford’s English’s Dictionary!
I just want to say I absolutely adore this series (along with the other farm life ones)! I'm not even British but I've always been fascinated by how folks lived back before the "modern" era. It's mind opening and entertaining! I also love Ruth, Alex, and Peter! Please never stop making these excellent videos! 🙏
My sentiments exactly, well said!
I love this series too ! They work so hard to make it as authentic as possible.
Yeah I'm the same. I can't get enough.
These videos are so enriching with history and knowledge. Love them!
Just can't get enough!
The cow looking at them singing "Really!". 😆
God bless the Acton family for keeping these traditions alive. That is a precious gift to the future.
"Dont pussyfoot, you won't hurt it" ... i really REALLY love this old timer!!! He in his old age is still in charge and in command of that forge. I love it. Wish this individual was in more episodes!
Oh Clumper is just the loveliest thing! What a sweet boy!
That's a gorgeous horse
“This is the actual very first Christmas card in existence.”
*sips a cup of tea over it*
Spills a hot cup of tea on it.... **Card disintegrates 😂😂
@@ottoandnibbles "This 'was' the actual very first Christmas card in existence." 😅😅😂😂
"Oh bugger" (2 seconds after the spill)
This has been a very wholesome and heartwarming series. Normally I’m the grinch when it come to Christmas but I have to say my heart grew three times by the episodes end.
So much more fulfilling than today's commercial Christmas. I'm so glad I grew up in the 50's and can remember simpler times.
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What a lovely Christmas gift that they posted these extra episodes so we could go back to the Victorian farm one more time. Out of all the Farm series, the Victorian is my favorite.
Glad they still have Clumper too. Such a handsome boy.
Love this one. It's especially important to me because my granddad was born very near the Acton estate and I expect many of the traditions mentioned here would be a part of my family's life.
"For this recipe, you will need...." -Mrs. Crocombe
Mrs. Crocombe does use Eliza Acton's recipes....
Yes
Another favorite series
Yes!!!
😂😂🤣🤣
I love how the cows gave the farmers a side eye when they sang to the livestock on Christmas day!!!
is there a better way to show history than living it? I love thses series. My fave one still is the making of a castle, but all of them are fabulous! thank you for the effort!
My great great grandfather was a woodworker, he made furniture's. He would make toys for the poor kids in the neighborhood, of scrap wood, and hand them out for Christmas.
How delightful !. I still have a dolly bed my grandfather made me when I was little. He made it like something from his boyhood. It has red painted trim like 1915. I love it. Thank you for sharing.
@@birdsflowers2289until about 5 years ago (when I sold my home of 21 years), I had a doll cradle made by my grandfather, for my mother, in the late 1930’s or early 40’s. She had Re-painted it to match my room in the 60’s-70’s, with the same flowered “Tole painting” style “headboard” she’d done on my wall (I had allergies, and she was avoiding anything that could build up dust). My daughter used it in the early 2000’s (with her American Girl dolls), and then I gave it away to a mother with several young girls, in the final days of my living in my house in CA (2017). I was happy to know it would be loved some more. :)
May Allah bless him
46:29 The look this cow is giving to the singers made me burst out laughing! Love this series!
What is the title of the song?
I loved seeing Mr. Ivan Day, it reminds me of the Days of Upstairs Downstairs with Rosemary and Tim! I miss them.
I could watch that man shoe a horse all day. Such a craftsman.
I really enjoyed this. I see many similarities to how my American family celebrated Christmas.Clear down to the act of feeding the wild birds. ❤️Thank you for warming my heart
"Never mind the filling up, pump it, Peter!" My favorite part lol
You could see his frustration intensify
Yup he didn't mess around!
I really enjoy this series. The people are adventurous folk who are prepared to do what needs to be done to re-live this historic period.
Love this video!! So cool to see the history behind a lot of Christmas traditions!! I was a bit excited too because John Horsley (artist behind the Christmas card) is a direct ancestor of mine!!
Woooow that's kinda cool :)
@@zachhorsley9221 That's fascinating! So you and the commentor above are related then.
I seldom see my childhood name, sarahbeth, on these posts...it is very Victorian too. All the best.
I absolutely love these series. These guys are awesome together.
FOR THE INCREDIBLE AMOUNT OF WORK VICTORIAN FARMERS DID, I'M SURPRISED THEY DON'T TAKE TWO DAYS OFF!!
How I love the beauty of this time period . hard working people enjoying the fruits of their Labor thank you for this beautiful tutorial.🙏🎄
I absolutely ADORED watching this video. Thank you everyone involved.
As a kid in the early 1960s we always got an orange in the toe of our hand made felt and beaded Christmas stockings
that sounds lovely
I do Christmas stockings for a few older neighbor ladies. With oranges and whole nuts and candies and toys for their pets!
As a kid in the 80s, we got oranges or tangerines in the toe of our stockings too
Clumper is a star :-)
Wonderful. Such a great series. After doing Renaissance Faires and finding out how to do things the way they did, these shows are great to see how things advance and yet... stay the same. Merry Christmas Everyone!!!
I used to have one of those pianos when I was young. They were so much fun during Christmas we would all sing and have it play a song and us little kids would jingle bells and cowbells.
I watched this on Christmas Day 2024 and it was surreal to realize that here I am watching Christmas traditions of a bygone era over 100 years ago on a piece of modern tech that would've been considered magic at that time. 😂
I love watching these three historians and t their trips back in time. So fascinating! My mother always gave each of us children an orange and a pound of real butter (something very special and usually expensive the rest of the year). I'm so happy I have these memories and passed it down to my own son. He also fondly looks forward to these shocking gifts.
We almost l looked forward to our stockings more than the actual gifts, almost. My mother to this day in her 80's still makes sure that everyone has their traditional stockings. I absolutely love it and I'm in my 60's now.
My two sisters and I grew up getting nuts in shells, oranges and apples in large stockings our mother made when I was seven years old. I still hang mine every Christmas and I am 77 years old. My kids make sure it is filled every year. Great memories!
My mother gave me a whole Gouda cheese in red wax because it was my favorite.
I would've been a blacksmith for sure if i lived in the past. I just feel a connection with it :) Thanks for this christmas present of a mini series ❤️
psst you can still be a blacksmith now
So late to this comment, but I know a blacksmith and he keeps quite busy. I only know specifically of his business within pagan and renfair circles, but I’m sure he has customers for all sorts. Worth looking more into if you’re interested!
I absolutely loved this series. I am A Christmas Carol fanatic. Seeing all there efforts. This makes me appreciate my ancestors much much more.
Actually, my family here in Germany does put up smaller decorations around the house weeks before Christmas, but we always wait until Christmas Eve to put up the tree.
Curious, when do you usually take it down? In America, we typically put our up around 01 Dec. then take it down (dried up) about a week after new year. No fire hazard with LED lights. 😁
When I was a child the tree would only be taken down somewhen in January, but these days it‘s usually before new year.
As a matter of fact, my father just took everything down, and it‘s only the 29th.
Same in Hungary! And we take it down on the 6th of January
@@klaudiamagyar1088 yep. Though that varies quite a bit. Ours usually stay up from 24dec to the end of January. (Also from Hungary)
@ stargate,, WOW.. that is cool. If I put the tree up on Xmas Eve. I would be so behind. I have 40 boxes of Christmas to put up. It takes 3 days to put up... I love Christmas 🎄⛄.... I love old traditions too.
I love this group of people so much, re-watching them is just as good as the first time.
"Here's a toast to them as we love, and a toast to them that loves us.....AND here's to them who loves them who loves those who loves those who loves them that loves us...." 😂 🍻🤤🍻 (Hours later, he's still toasting....🤣)
32:35 "not from chemicals, but from nature" should actually be "not synthetically, but organically". It's still chemicals that do the dyeing - be it from a synthetic source or an organic one like a plant.
Indeed, many industrial dyes today are still derived from organic sources.
@@annehaight9963 Yes, all "strawberry flavored" candies in market today use conchonillas for the colour.
OH, how disgusting! I"ve never liked strawberry anything, especially things artificially flavored strawberry, like pudding, ice cream, margaritas, etc. I can barely eat whole, fresh berries, but not flavoring!
When i make "strawberry shortcake" in the summer, I always substitute raspberries. They greatly improve the dish in my opinion. When I got a daughter-in-law who is alergic to strawberries, it was perfect! Now the raspberries aren't my "fault" anymore and I'm not "forcing" my tastes onto others!!
Now I have another reason to avoid commercial strawberry flavoring--its all full of BUGS! V
Very interesting. Thank you.
I love the horse and his new shoes. Just figuring out horses needed them and they have to be custom made, would have been a feat in itself!
Ahaha I see what you did there
It still amazes me how people worked out some of the ways to make things. I mean, who would even KEEP stale urine, let alone think that it might be useful to colourise ribbons!
@@sheilaboston7051
I've often thought that people appear to be very clever in earlier times because they had to be in order to survive; conversely, many today appear the opposite because the dire challenges to survival have, for most people, been removed .
I have learned so much by watching these series.
Queen Charlotte, wife of George III also brought the Christmas Tree tradition, only then it was only within the royal household. It was card showing the royal family around their tree that popularized it
I absolutely loved watching again the Christmas season. Thank you so much❤
39:40 Here in Germany many people look for their Christmas tree and decorate it on Christmas eve. It was considered modest before, nowadays is more of a family tradition thing. I myself like to put it on before (to be able to really enjoy it), but my father-in-law still believes it must be decorated only until December 24th. He's almost 70 years old.
51:00 Here in Germany children leave, on the night of December 5th, a polished shoe outside their door. During the night/early morning, the shoe gets stuffed with oranges, sweets, and maybe a little toy. It's called Nikolaustag (and it's celebrated on the morning of December 6th).
Some people here in the states celebrate a version of Nikolaustag (my family calls it St Nick's and we use big decorative stockings instead of shoes). Even though the emphasis is on the children, adults in the family often receive treats and small presents as well. My family would always wake up extra early before work or school that day to dig into our stockings together. It felt like a miniature Christmas day celebration, nothing that fancy, but always enough to get everyone excited and into the holiday spirit. Now as an adult, I still always make sure that my husband and I's stockings are hung by Dec 5th so that I can fill them with some chocolates for us to enjoy the morning of the 6th.
The beetlecoats are coming! The beetlecoats are coming! I mean the redcoats! 34:50 Er, the Beatles are coming? -the-crowds-scream-
Good one!
Its 2022 and I been watching these shows sinse 2007 I love them
The Christmas card portion intrigued me! The first Christmas card was penned Merry Christmas. This makes me wonder when and how Brits started and continued the phrase as Happy Christmas and Americans continuation of Merry Christmas 😮
I remember watching the farrier coming to our house and being very fascinated with what he was doing.
Have loved every minute and the authenticity of it all.thankyou.❤❤❤
Those cows looked as if they could have happily dispensed with the Christmas singing. Like, “yeah, you sing to me today, but you’ll happily send me to the butcher tomorrow.”
Honestly, wassailing has nothing to do with the birth of Christ. Singing to beasts and plants, thanking them instead of thanking the CREATOR who made them, is a bit pagan. It was a pagan practice orginially. Not saying it doen't have a sentimental meaning or fun for those who did, and do it still.
Clumper's hooves are huge :o
Love this series. Shows all the hard work in a day. Very few of us could live like this now. We are used to all the convenaces of the time. I have lived a off grid lifestyle, hauled my own water and cooked on coal fires. Did my wash by hand. No electricity, except for a small generator for watching DVDs. My only modern convenience. I enjoyed it for awhile. It was a life experience. I am back in a house with all the bells and whistles. Both have there merits
I love this series so much, from whatever historical period it is. My major in university was history, specializing in European / British history, and then after I graduated from school, I got involved in the Society for Creative Anachronism, which recreates living history from about 500 AD to 1650 AD. with regular feasts and tournaments, with period weapons, clothing, food, and other period crafts, like, of course, blacksmithing. I collected medieval recipes in Latin and English, worked them up, and published a little book, and also wrote a book for society people on how to construct medieval clothing. A lot of the plants for food and color, and other methods of creating things, continued down through the Victorian period. Every so often, I will see something and go, "Oh, I remember doing that in the SCA!" I so wish I could have been involved in creating this series.
They did a Tudor Farm series first, I believe, then Edwardian, then Victorian!
I love Acton Sr! He has a kind of dry sense of humor but I would love to hear some of the stories he could tell!
This is my Christmas tradition since it came out…waiting it every year to get me in the mood❤😊
What a fantastic series.
Thank you, this is amazing! Merry Christmas to all, peace,and love.❤️
The cow gave them a VERY WARY side eye....
I love at Christmas it is all still green there! In the USA where I live we would have 2 feet of snow ( .61 meters ) and everything is frozen.
AND Ruth's planting a garden....In the winter?.... Not here in Minnesota! (Wouldn't even be able to turn the soil with it frozen hard as a rock through April....) 😂❄☃❄
I don’t think it was actually filmed in December. It is too green.
¡Precioso! 💖
Looked for this to watch again this year. So many wonderful lessons. And you can tell you truly had fun.
West Gallery Music is such fun to play and it was a surprise and a pleasure to hear it at 52:00 and to have the historian explaining it to the congregants. Hooray and Enjoy!
Awesome presentation. I learned a lot.
I love these little british guys like yea buddy!! you really are a little victorian! were all so proud of you
Great Documentary! 🎄
It wasn't Queen Victoria that brought in such activities. It was Prince Albert of Germany, like the Germans in colonial America that changed up the holy days. Norse-German lights (candles) on pine trees since the days of Luther - not in England nor colonial American until the Hanovers came into England, and Germans into America. And Charles Dickens and his Christmas story also created a national movement.
They mentioned it in the tree part, how Coburg trees were the inspiration. Victoria got most of the inspiration from Albert to create The Victorian Family © flair.
Queen Charlotte of Mecklinburg-Strelitz (George III's wife) actually brought them over, but Prince Albert popularized them with public in general as part of their campaign to present themselves as family oriented. The prints of the royal tree surrounded by the Royal family and Leitzen were the popular prints of the day.
Muy buen trabajo!🌲🇪🇸🇬🇧
It wasn't Prince Albert that introduced the Christmas tree to England. It was actually Queen Charlotte, also from Germany, that brought the Christmas tree tradition to England.
🎄MERRY CHRISTMAS🎄
Queen Charlotte, George the III's wife actually brought the Christmas tree to Britain. Prince Albert popularized it, but did not introduce it to Britain. The music as Alex lights the forge fire is used in "Great British Ghosts" season 1 & 2!
I think in the States extreme dehydrated wood would be the coke or dried out charcoal. My parents to this day send out Christmas cards and stamps in the USA nowadays are expensive, about 55 cents a piece. Loved the ferrier, he really knew his stuff and reminded me when i lived in a small town growing up and everyone had horses. I live in Texas and we have all kinds of horses out here and being a ferrier is a good job to have.
Mom made the best fruitcake..pudding..more of a cake. Cooked, wrapped up and to set. Really good.
Sandi here- When I was learning blacksmithing (I made a hook with a curl and a twist), I learned one major difference between the hammerwork in carpentry vs. the hammerwork in blacksmithing - with carpentry, you hit the metal (nail) until it goes in all the way; With blacksmithing, you hit the metal until it is what you want it to be.
Very well made and informative!
Really enjoyed this video! a friend of my hubby send us this first Christmascard :)
I’ve binged each episode after watching the first one, multiple times.
I love them all, even Edwardian Farm but Wartime Farm is my favorite. I was glad they cut a few characters after Tales from the Green Valley but Kept Mr Hutton on the history of festivities!
I love watching this video around Christmas! It always gets me in the holiday spirit. :)
Finde die Sendung victorian oder edwarding farms einfach toll bitte mehr davon komme aus germany vielleicht geht es auch mit deutschen Untertitel das wäre toll man würde viel mehr verstehen ❤❤❤❤
"I'm looking for some coke."
Me: 👁️👄👁️
Haha
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Love, love, love this series! The perfect duo however, are Ruth and Peter! Actually, I think is a hunk. 😋 A real man's man❣
Let's hear it for Alex, Clumper's buddy! 🥳🥳
Great episode, fantastic series !
I'm not sure the cow appreciated the wassel singing. LOL
❤Guardo estasiata la storia inglese le ricette meravigliose, epoca vittoriana con la sua eleganza, arti culinarie e storia, carretti, cavalli carrozze ....❤❤❤
12:40 dear old Clumper
One of the hard things about living in the southern hemisphere is that there is no celebration or anything midwinter. For us it's just drudging through the entire way and I can absolutely see the benefit of having something like Christmas to brighten and energise people. The Seasonal depression where I live is incredibly common. I think something to look forward to would help a lot with that.
Same.
These holidays are really important. I’ve often thought that people crave a celebration on the solstice, the equinox, and the halfway points between.
Many people I know will pick a minor holiday, birthday or sporting event around those 8 days, and use it as a relief valve for some necessary merriment.
Perfect end to my Christmas Eve of 2022.
Who would have thought the turducken goes back to the victorian times
Actually, there are similar recipes from the middle ages, less the turkey.
Seems like something they would do
This channel made me stop romanticising old eras 😁
16:26 *breaths deeply
@@shitbag. Turducken.
@@Author.Noelle.Alexandria I can’t believe the Victorians we’re responsible, no wait... IN FACT I CAN’T BELIEVE I DIDN’T REALIZE IT SOONER! OF COURSE THEY DID! 🤣
This channel _made_ me romanticise them lol
This channel made me romanticize them even more lol
"Posh, great mate, merry Christmas!"
"And now we'll learn to make brilliant colours with chemicals, not nature... well it's all chemistry, so..."
I love the farm videos, every series.
The Christmas puddings “Don’t they look great”….no, no they really don’t 😂
In my country "pudding" comes in vanilla / chocolate...lol.
"Putting it on cloth is a much better thing than a sheep's stomach."
AMEN.
Your guy's cakes turned out to look yummy!
The ancient tur-du-ken. Goose, duck, partridge, and pigeon. No chicken or pheasants from India and the British Empire as yet.
The Romans used to roast a Chicken, stuffed into a Duck, stuffed into a Goose, stuffed into a Pig, stuffed into a Cow. And then it roasted for like a week.
Well, the "India-hen" (aka turkey) was just becoming readily available to the every day Englander during the Victorian era.... Thanks to the burgeoning turkey industry, turkey became affordable to the average person. Before then, it was mostly a delicacy for the nobility. (Turkeys first arrived in England in 1526 through a sailor named William Strickland.) Aaaand, I'm done with my random turkey rant now.... 🤪
One of my favorite ones !
12:08 Indigofera. No one should need prompting for that one...
The farm animals look at them with great suspicion when they all gathered in their barn to sing!
am I the only one who finds it hilarious that they always call these two grown men "THE BOYS"? Gives me a good chuckle every time. Is this a British thing? Either way, I'm absolutely loving it.
Plus I'm finding it curious that many of the savory dishes are called pies or pudding lol.
Yes, they are the boys! But is no disrespect meant. They are truly men in the best sense of the word!
@@lisalapoint7022 Very true, I think it's more of a British saying, but it's really cute and kinda fitting despite them also being very mature and respectable gentlemen it seems
Have you noticed that women are still OFTEN referred to as “the girls”? I wish more people saw this as funny as well.
Near the ends one said “ my orange is covered in wee ribbon”😆 they are still definitive the BOYS😆😆
For a moment i forgot that i live in 2021, watching this like i live in it. Can feel the vibe like it's happen before.
I love how angry farriers get when horses don’t stand still lol
It's like with photographers and children.... GET BACK HERE! HOLD STILL!😂