Britain's Underground Christmas During The Blitz | Wartime Farm: Christmas | Absolute History
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- 1944 saw the sixth Christmas during World War II, and shortages were biting deeper than ever. Added to this, Britain's cities were in the grip of the worst German attacks since the Blitz of 1940. Unmanned flying bombs - the dreaded V1 'Doodlebugs' and V2 rockets - rained down, stretching morale and services to breaking point.
Following recipes and guidelines issued by the government and the WVS, Ruth cooks an improvised Christmas meal, relying chiefly on rabbit and a glut of carrots from the farm. And the Salvation Army bring musical cheer to the occasion as the team reflect on the impact of what was to be the last Christmas of the Second World War.
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I still have the homemade stuffed Scottie dog I was given Christmas 1943, and have often wondered about the woman who must have sewed him from "found" materials. He's 78 now and has been patched many times over the years....truly my very oldest friend!
I have an old friend too. Can't explain this love, I just know I do.
I too have an old friend! He has been with me at least 70 years, he was made from lambs skin and wool, sadly his ears that were so soft made from a fur like mink are missing.The truth is as a small child I love to to smell them as I sucked my thumb. But he is fine, kept safely in the small carry case I brought with me when I immigrated to America.
I know this love, it is comfort. My oldest friend too.
So special 🥰😇
@@raphaelahons3479 I know you are, but what am I?
I didn’t expect to cry from your comment, but here I am…
As a German who's spent a good bit of their life studying the English language and culture, I feel deeply grateful for the cordial bonds I have forged with British people over the years. And the German POW's singing "Stille Nacht" in a British church immediately made me tear up. Lots of love to you readers, no matter your origin.
Bonjour de France. Don't you think we can see our ancestors in this ? I watched this serie from Tales of the Green Valley and see it as if I knew it...
I’m Russian, and I and my husband is 50/50 Russian/ German we live in Canada. I was fascinated when I have seen Germans in church, I wish to see it everywhere, that we respect each other. We are just human beings, we all want to live without hate.
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"You don't buy Christmas, you make it. Christmas is not about what you can buy in shops, Christmas is about the people you gather around you and what you do with your time."
Yes! I saw that one too. Thank you!
well, don't gather this year physically, or it might be the last christmas for some of you.
@@chaosgoettin will be gathering around the phone
@@chaosgoettin True. And although this year has in large parts been utter crap for everybody, I'm grateful for the technology that allows me to speak with my parents on Christmas without endangering them or anyone else. And looking at this wartime video, sitting in a warm flat, albeit alone, with a nice meal and some mulled wine on Christmas, talking to family and friends on the phone, doesn't seem like much of a hardship at all.
@@chaosgoettin we gathered at Christmas and Thanksgiving and we are all still alive! Imagine that. God has not given us a spirit of FEAR!
I love how that guy said that Christmas isn’t bought. My most memorable Christmas was the year my parents fell on financial hard times. Bills were do right around Christmas and I found out later on that my mom had around $36 to buy Christmas dinner AND me and my brothers presents. She made it...so special. We made salt dough ornaments to give out to our neighbors, with cookies. She had all these crafts for us to do. We spent the day watching Christmas movies and cooking. Then Christmas Eve we watched old Christmas cartoons and played games. On Christmas morning we had some presents to open. She’d bought a few things, and made us some stuff too. But we watched more Christmas cartoons and had a breakfast soufflé and cinnamon rolls. And then we went to visit family where me and my brother were more than spoiled with materialistic presents. Funny enough, our grandmother and aunt and uncle probably spent $500+ each on us. And yet the presents I remember are the ones my mom made, and the few very thoughtful gifts she got us. That night we went home with all those gifts....and within an hour of being home they were abandoned. We were back to just spending time together. That year my mom and dad had made me a beautiful board of the royal game or Ur and I loved it. Still, it’s my favorite game. And my mom taught us how to play Rummy. That was more amusing to me than those super expensive gifts. Because we could play them together as a family.
Christmas definitely isn’t bought. My parents spent so much money on us as kids that we’d have to take breaks while opening presents. Yet the most magical Christmas was that year, when they had very very little money and were only able to buy us 2 or 3 gifts each. They were “ cheap” gifts but very thought out and thoughtful. And I loved it.
Brianna Gordy ... thank you for sharing your heartwarming story. I grew up with just the necessities mostly. But a few Christmases would have a bigger gift. Dad sold Volkswagon Beetles back in the mid-late 60's and commission on a new Bug was about 20.00, and if you could talk the buyer into a radio...you got $5.00 commission! When we would go to Dairy Queen for a treat, we would get the cheapest thing they had...a small cone for .10 cents. For entertainment, we would go to the airport and watch planes take off and land, or go for a Sunday drive after church. We would take advantage of dollar days sales twice a year at the department stores and check out the bargain basement floor before shopping the rest of the store. Mom learned how to stretch a dollar pretty far! I didn't mind not having a lot growing up, I saw how the rich kids at school were usually snobbish. I also knew the biblical principle of being satisfied with what you had.
Wonderful story and great memories ❤️
Great story. That's so true in life. My grandparents are all gone now, but I don't recall materialistic stuff they got me...maybe a couple of things, but what I remember most is just the love and fellowship.
Wonderful story...just wonderful! Thank you for sharing!!!!
What a lovely story. Thank you for sharing it 😊
I always find the day to day lives of ordinary people in history to be more interesting than the major events.
Same!!!!!
Yes. They distract us for awhile. Lesson is: We will persevere and this too will pass and on to better things.🙏🤞👍🌞
As a historian, I agree!
I agree i dont need too know when a Princess pot get crown on i want too know how it was four workers and alike
@@SoCalCaitlin14 I wish that I had realized my love of History when I was still in school. I would have enjoyed going into something that has to do with history. If you don't mind me asking what do you do? If you don't want to answer I promise I will not be in any way bothered by that
Watching this should humble us all. I'm 61 years old this December and I've never done without anything I needed in my whole life. We weren't rich but we always had enough and were safe. As I watch 2020 come to an end, I don't think we could do what our grandparents did. We just don't know how and we don't love each other enough.
Thinking I should toss this video out at the whiners
J Bos We could definitely do it. Hard times being people together. I’ve seen it first hand. And we see it in the world every day. I do believe that if forced to, with no other option, we could pull through just about everything.
That is so true
You know our grandparents invented all the shit that replaced hard labor because they didn't like it. They weren't tougher, they had no other choice. Of course we could do the same if we had to.
@@judyjohnson9610 Someone else's hardships don't invalidate your own.
My father died after he got back to the US from the war in 1949 and the adults around me and my sister comforted themselves by telling each other that "it was a good thing that children didn't understand what was happening," although they never asked us what we understood.
I knew perfectly well that my father was dead and that meant that he was never coming back.
They really fell down on helping us with our grief. I'm still angry about that. And I'm 77.
It's a lovely series this, watching historians living the lifes of people of the past is a whole lot more interesting than learning it in classes.
The British went through over five years of war on a scale we can't really imagine anymore and yet they endured and still found the strength to celebrate Christmas. Today people can't even endure a few weeks in quarantine without going insane. Imagine being stuck in a bunker for weeks, bombs raining down every day, never knowing who and what was left...
Plopplop, stuck in a house with Netflix, smartphones and no bombs. 🙄
Like us in Ukraine.
As a Filipino-American, I really wish they made something similar to this show but about the Philippines. I would like to see how life was for my mother and father as children in WW2. My father is no longer around, and my mom's memory isn't so sharp to tell me, but I've heard bits and pieces of running from the Japanese, or being liberated by the Americans. I wish I had asked them when I could have ...
My dad gave me something really special from WW2, In the Netherlands where my parents are from for Christmas one of the presents that was given was a spoon made from a 1g coin (1 dollar) and a 10c coin. He gave me 2 of them and they are really special to me.
Thank you for this. "You make Christmas not buy it" is the best quote of the show.
I'm from Michigan USA. My Grandfather was born in England, and became a US citizen in 1941. He had 3 sons in the service. We did not have to go through the horrors of the bombs and the terrible deaths. But I was very proud of my British family that lived in Surrey.
My mother was a teen who lived through the Blitz, the bombing, she didn’t like to talk about what it was like to live through the bombings. But she told me about some of it,
The whole family always slept in one room, they often went to the nearby tube( subway ) to take shelter from the bombings. These videos show us how our parents had to survive and then carry on with their lives during WWII.
My mom grew up on a farm in Saskatchewan Canada, during the war. My grandfather was an immigrant who left Germany in 1900 and came here to leave European wars behind. In 1940, my uncle joined up and fought at Dieppe, then Sicily, Italy and the liberation of the Netherlands. My mom left the farm for teachers college, but left to go to work in a factory. My grandparents were left to work the farm alone, but like all the farms in the area, they pooled their resources; human and mechanical to feed the country, the Armed Forces and the world. "Greatest Generation", is thrown about often, but it's true.
We owe them a debt we can never repay!
🌺🍁🌺 Never Forget
Did your grandfather went to germany or delfzijl because if he went north i live in one of the viliges he liberated
My mother came from Yellow Grass Saskatchewan in the late 1920's. They settled in Southwest Michigan, Benton Harbor. I just turned 65 years old.
grew up hearing stories of england during ww2. my mom lived it and was a war bride. for her 21st birthday the whole family shared ration coupons to make her a birthday cake. aunt and uncle were presented with 4 london kids to raise because they had a big enough house. a different world than today. very strong people.
I had an elephant made out of a worn out grey army blanket. He was beautiful.
My mom endured both blitzes in London. She was deaf in her right ear and maybe 60 percent of her hearing and the left ear alien craft. This was from a direct hit on a bomb shelter she was in and ultimately was trapped in. She also was in another shelter that took a direct hit and she was trapped in it. We used to make some of these decorations when I was a kid and we had so much fun sitting at the table making them. We would also make paper chains out of crepe paper, and snow flakes from paper. This was in the early sixties.
This was both heartbreaking and heartwarming, now I want a potato beer.
Not too hard to make, get some yeast , potatoes and hops. If you can't find hops, pick some mugwort, it grows all over the place.
Careful. It makes you fart 💨😂
@@lindatisue733 Mugwort is fun anyway because you can smoke it.
I'd salute and stand in awe of anyone who experienced and lived through this. Nothing, nothing we have going on now can even begin to compare to what the people of England suffered during WWII.
Me and dad walked the railway line,buckets in hand to collect any coal that had fallen as thy shoveled the the coal.
I just love Henry. Border Collies are the best doggos.
Absolutely they are! Border collies and Australian Shepherd’s. Such loyal dogs.
I'm curious what they would have fed him during this time-both because meat was so heavily rationed; plus commercial pet foods were more recent inventions back then. 🐕🥫
@@ThatClassic70sGirl They actually talk about that in the early episodes of Wartime Farm. The Ministry of Agriculture ordered a cull of farm animals so that more land could be turned over to crops. Ruth, Peter and Alex discussed what people would've done with their dogs. Ruth commented that some people would've seen it as a mercy to put their dog down so he wouldn't have to starve. When they culled their older chickens, Alex said to Henry, "I'm sure there will something here for you." Killing rats and wood pigeons was also important to protecting food stocks, so I'm sure farm dogs during the war would've eaten a lot of rat and pigeon meat. Ultimately, they would've been feed whatever food the farmers thought they could spare.
@@ThatClassic70sGirlBecause dogs are omnivorous like us and not obligate carnivores like cats, dogs largely ate what we ate (likely leftovers & scraps). Raw veg scraps more likely went to chickens/pigs or making stock in the kitchen.
In 50 years historians will be laughing at cats showing up in ZOOM meetings while discussing how the populace handled lockdowns in 2020.
I've been thinking about this, too. What will future people say about our digital meetings throughout 2020? What will they say about the toilet paper hoarding, the sudden need to make bread at home, the boredom baking, crazy things we watched, and so on? Should be fun to read the history books when we're elderly.
And fighting one another over toilet roll. We're pathetic in comparison with our great grandparents / grandparents
Or the people showing up as cats in Zoom meetings.
@fred McMurray It's being talked about by computer historians, just like the 8" and 3"and the punch cards and reels. Don't worry, the data is converted as we progress. You do realize that you can still play computer games from the 5" floppies because they've been converted and software that used to come on tapes is actually within other programs. 30 years ago, the software I used to work on came on tapes. It's now actually inside word processing programs and web browsers and nobody even realizes they're using it even though it's used billions of times a day.
@fred McMurray you don’t need to worry about digital deterioration. We’ve been working on that for over a couple of decades now. We’re constantly moving digital files onto new ones, even w/out compressing and distorting the image. People have already thought about this. However, it is still nice to have physical copies of things so I try to keep original photos.
Thank you for posting this, I fell in love with these farm history shows.
Me too. Such a great escape during Covid...
From "Tales of Green Valley" ? I saw them all, from 1600 till that. Amazing to see the évolution... I'm French but can see my ancestors in this serie.
As an American I'm proud to say my English roots run deep. Sir Winston is Mayflower passenger John Howland's 8x great grandnephew. JH is my 8x great grandfather. I grew up on farm in rural Floirda. Electrcity came when I was eight. Rabbit was a staple food. We even ate squirrel and dumplings.
Using the truck to crush the potatoes for beer was genius. MacGyver would be proud.
However, I was a little disappointed to see the milking machine used on the cow. Unless it was a dairy farm, I doubt that would be used at all. My Dad never used such a thing because it made it difficult to tell if the cow had any infection or other issue in its udder. We kept cows for household milk well into the 21st century without ever using a machine on one.
Driving over the spuds..morons! When there was a perfectly good feed grinder available for the cattle? And that would definitely mess up the sacks that would have lots of uses
I’m surprised they went back to the farm, but I’m saddened that Alex is no longer with them. Peter has a lot ahead of him. They should’ve brought Tom
We're so 'country' when my 6yr old granddaughter was offered a bunny for Easter, she said 'yumyum! We love rabbit!" 😄
😂😂😂😂😂
To Ruth and Peter and the rest of the team who make these episodes thank you so very very much.
Perfect to watch while completing my stitching.
@Siebenstern A thimble, aye?
What are you sewing? I'd love to know.
@@jbos5107 A wound.
@@jbos5107 I made a hood, pockets and longer sleeves out of an old Leggins for my winter coat and with the scraps and some old jewelry, I'm making little flowers to decorate the coat with as well.
I find this very fascinating (especially as an American). As we come upon Christmas 2020, it makes me really appreciate the things we have and often take for granted.
As a British person living in the USA since 1978 I’m still amazed at the difference in the cultures. I hear so much whining nowadays it sickens me. They don’t even want to wear a mask to protect themselves from Covid! It’s sickening!!
@29:40 I think this oversimplifies why so many people turned away from formal religion. Note that I said "formal religion" and not just "religion". My grandfather was a Christian Humanist. This means that he was a Christian who believed that his duty to all of humanity outranked his duty to Christianity. When the Concentration Camps were liberated and the full extent of crimes against humanity perpetrated there were revealed, most formal Christian churches were oddly silent. Anti-semitism was so common at the time, that most churches didn't even bother to publicly condemn the genocide. My grandfather was so disgusted that he never set foot in a church again. He was still a devout Christian who read to his children from the bible and believed in God, but he turned his back on the institution of the church. His Humanist principles would not allow him to support an institution that had shamelessly refused to condemn an heinous crime against humanity.
Fascinating episode. I’m so glad the audio issues have been resolved - I can hear the narrator over the music now!
My grandfather was in the battle of the bulge and back in the states, my grandmother, mom, aunt and uncle were so poor they didn't have a Christmas 😢
each generation goes through some type of strengthening either by man or design .
We pray for strength, & hope for the next generation.
Yes, but if we don't do something now, climate change may not end for the next generations.
I love English history series. It's nice to go back to another time, even if it's full of hardships. It feels like most people worked and pulled together to get through things, unlike during today's pandemic. You can put up with so much more if it feels like people care about each other.
American TV doesn’t do these kinds of fantastic shows anymore. It’s all about Trumps and Kardashians all day long. Disgusting.
@@thomasgriffin5340 I love Trump! I would watch him and his family any day of the week. But of course I am AMERICAN INDIAN! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🗽🗽🗽🗽
How true that is!
We have so much impulsive, senseless violence in so many forms today because of this, because everyone feels so alone, forsaken, and betrayed. People use friendship like a drug, for transitory fun and to boost their own status in the eyes of others, and not the way we should view true friendship.
Most people are so snarky and superficial.
We are only harming ourselves in the end. 😔💔🇺🇸
Rural Pie Scheme?! SoOoo, delightfully English .. 🎉HATS OFF, to all those at the time, who supplied the pies - WVS .. & all those who ate them! ❤ 🙏🏽 🇨🇦
Here in Maine we had many German POWs and there are traces of their camps in the woods. My mother often talked about how they would wave at her as the buses went by.
The potter making the flagon was absolutely incredible 👏🏾. And potato beer very interesting
I have always wondered where my Gram acquired some of her “unique” recipes. Now, I know.
did she make carrot fudge....? ._.
Really makes me appreciate my nana who grew up during the bombing ❤️
I love this show, because I’m not used people talking science wearing galoshes and wielding rakes.
"Ginger Grant" ... That reminds me: Isn't she (Tina Louise?) the last surviving cast member remaining from _Gilligan's Island_ ? (since Dawn Wells passed away from COVID recently)... How's she been doing lately?
I'm very impressed with the level of dedication they took to recreate some of the larger scenes of the era with the train, bunker, and church especially! Very well done guys!
I really like the dog actor.
hes apparently the dog of one of the sound editors!!
I have enjoyed watching this program it brought back things my grandmother told us as children luckily I personally never had to do without anything my intire life even today I’m blessed with a abundance of love and family after watching these shows I’m even more thankful than ever being born well after the war but being born on the queens Cora nation time I’ve only lived knowing what I’m told or I learn I’ve learned so much from the advsntages of having internet to watch these historical program I want to thank all those who made it possible to peek into the past
I have been learning so much about the Victorian, edwardian, gorgian and tudor eras these past 2 weeks and LOVE these recordings!
I enjoy watching these shows, following the adventures of the trio and how life was like in the past, but this hit hard for me. My family (and myself) are US citizens, and my grandparents went through the full effects of WW1 and WW2, as children and as adults running a farm through that timeframe. Things weren't as hard here, but I can see and understand more of what our own went through, reading the papers and hearing the radio broadcasts of what was happening in England and Europe, and the fears that gripped everyone the world over during that time. And it's heartbreaking, knowing what so many suffered through and yet uplifting, the sheer POWER of the British will to not only bounce back after that but to thrive during and after.
You Brits may not hear this too often from us Yankees, but BRAVO!
I remember Mom’s rabbit stew. It was so good. I was born in 1946 and moved yo Canada in 1952 but still remember we were rationed for a period of time after the war was over. Remember having free milk at school even in 1952. We had the freedom of playing in the street or in the back alleys. So many good memories of Christmas morning opening Dad’s sock with tangerine orange, shelled nuts, tiny rosebud cookies wrapped in paper and a Kaleidoscope. And one gift under the tree.
The heartbreak of war. I spend hours now thinking of Ukraine. I don't want to leave this world with little hope for humanity in my heart....I hope I can hold on.
How the people of the UK lived through those times. Such strong people. I hope it times get bad I can be like them and get past it....
Happy Christmas to all.... be safe and well.....
Thank you so much for uploading this. It’s so fascinating and inspiring. Puts things in perspective too, especially during a Christmas like this.
It really does! It also gives me hope. The amount of resilience shows the power of the human spirit.
47:41 I have raised/kept rabbit for meat production. It is an excellent meat and extremely digestible and very high in protein and from birth to slaughter age the turnaround for a litter of rabbits is very fast. I am surprise that rabbit meat isn’t more widely eaten today because it is absolutely delicious.
When I lived in Bucks County, PA. We had wild Chinese lanterns growing, I use to pick then & dry them for decorations. Very bright orange & stronger than they looked.
Yes. Sometimes you need to look to the past to truly appreciate the present. And hopefully to make a more meaningful future. This simplicity is what real happiness is, we don't need the store fantasy, we have it already in us to give and share. That is true beauty, and its real.
Dare I say it? I love the trio of Ruth, Alex and Peter, but!- Peter seems freer without Alex talking slightly down to him!
This show is so well done. Dr Ruth Goodman must never stop making history shows.
I’ll watch anything with Peter or Ruth!
Love this series. I like learning some of the old ways of doing things to be more self sufficient.
I was 3 and still remember the booms.
I love Ruth. She is such fun. Thanks guys and Absolute History for a magnificent series.
amazing to watch this during a pandemic christmas
@Iamin Yourmom i don't think anyone comparing them. Read the original post before you post. It helps.
I just retired this summer as a nurse and I took care of a lady I just adored and she was from England and told me about part of the family home had been bombed she said it was an incendiary bomb she explained it wasn’t like a bomb that blew up it was just fire!! She said they all had gas masks even the little ones she said ❤ she was awesome bless her heart
What kind of pies were they cuz they sure look good probably even better back then when they were made fresh unlike the frozen meat pies we get today
3:11 - Henry is helping, too! 🐶🥰
Do you think 50 years from now, they’ll be making videos from 2020, to show people how we survived the pandemic?
No. 50 years from now we'll be stumbling face first into another pandemic because WE DIDN'T FREAKING LEARN.
No one really talks about the Measles Pandemic, Or Polio, or Rubella, Or Typhoid, Or Cholera, Or Flu...
Yes! I think we will all have stories to share. I have kept journals. My descendants will know all about pajamas and banana bread . They will also know about vaccines and lockdowns. We can teach them to make due.
I have a doll my paternal grandma made for me out of a wooden spool: just the empty spool with a rectangle of cloth…. she made it look like it had a “bodice” too. She ran an “in & out” stitch to tie it to the spool. She made it to show me some of the toys she had as a child. It doesn’t have a head & no arms or legs. She was born in 1899…never told me what years she had a doll like that. She also had a doll made out of a corn cob.
My maternal grandma told me that she had made a star topper for their Christmas tree out of the foil that was in cigarette packages. I assume they used cardboard & attached the foil to it. I wish they had kept it, I’d like to have it today.
Thanks for this. It really helps to understand how going through these experiences shaped my family, especially my mum. I can't imagine that being my childhood. How lucky my generation has been. Mum taught us how to make those exact paper decorations when we were kids!
Ruth Is A Good Historian Along With The Crew
35:30 blew my mind! 🤯 I was not expecting the pine oil to look like that.
35:20 blew my mind! I was not expecting a dog that cute.
I suspect that’s where the saying ‘pitch black’ comes from
In the U.S. it's called pine tar. It can be found at farm supply stores. To use on tool wood handles it is cut 50% with turpentine. The turpentine allows it to be soaked up by the dry fibers in the wood. Lay the tool or handle out in the summer sun to warm up. Then apply liberally to the wood and let it sit overnight. Wipe off any excess with an old rag and let dry. Dry rot won't happen and it is protected from the elements and insects. Rats and mice won't bother it either. It's been used for centuries. 500 year old homes in the Scandinavian countries have some original parts that were treated with pine tar over the years that are perfectly good. It's especially useful for wood that will contact the ground.
Well- what they say about not buying christmas, but making it is as true today as it was back then. My wife's family - wich by now is as much mine then hers- do this since a few years ago mainly. We do bake gifts, my wife's mother and aunt does knit some and her sister does draw a lot. And I help where I can. It's so much nicer now.
Obviously we can't compare it to wartime and hopefully we never will have too, but how safe peace is, we see in Ukraine. 😞 my thoughts won't help, but I try to help as much as I can. Not only for christmas.
I wish you all a merry christmas. As merry as can be.
My grandmother was part of the wvs , Jones was her maiden name Ivy first name.. I love this stuff!!!!!
This series is really worth watching. It just goes to show how hard people had life in those days and how much people whinge and whine and expect and want these days. People were so much more social and nicer in those days.
My goodness people were so strong and resilient back then. They're hardcore.
Thank you for making history live
I feel for these people back then.I been watching these histery shows alot. With all the fighting in Ukrane and other
places over there it scares me of whats going to happen next. Can you emagin liveing like that? I pray we never will.
But what amazed me most, not once did i hear the names -Hans,Fritz,Kraut,Nazi- spoken in Anger.
And in one episode where there was a talk about the - dambusters - i was amazed that the attitude of the - normal - people was not always pro government.
Very well tought documentary/series... There is no better way to teach history!
This is so much more relevant now
Those women working with the doll's house furniture were giggling like little girls, enjoying themselves.
The American version of Airgrams was V-Mail. To make the originals easier to photograph onto microfilm, people were encouraged to use black ink. Parker and Sheaffer made V-Mail inks, which were just their standard black inks with different labels.
I wish there was more content with those 3 (or 2 in this case)
Go to the absolute history RUclips channel and you will find loads of content with Ruth, Peter, and Alex.
They’ve done a Tudor series and an Edwardian series plus several more.
Cheers
@@prepperjonpnw6482 I know I know, but I've watched them already when they came out. I would like to see new content!
Wonderful. Thanks! what a great piece of human history!
No reason not to make your own decorations anyways. You can use recycling and nature around you. No need to spend money if you really don't have to. Especially with Coronavirus19 and so many on lockdown and not working. Nature provides!
Pine cones make lovely little Christmas trees. The beads that they toss at parades can be cut to individual balls and hot glued as decorations. A little white paint on the tips of the pine cone looks like snow or ice. A cardboard disc wrapped in jute twine is the base.
My Nan said that during World War II, they would get one small orange in the bottom of their stocking, and that was the thing they look forward to the most. Because during the war oranges were scarce.
This - 11:42 " This is the thing; you don't buy Christmas, you make Christmas - Christmas isn't about what you can buy in shops, Christmas is about the people you gather around you and what you do with your time." - One of the most important and heartfelt Truths I've learned & cherished as I got older.
Thank you for these magnificent history shows. You bring reality from WWII to educate us in 2020.
Ruth is a smart lady!
Wow I love the knowledge that they were kind to the enemy. ❤️. At the end of that day we are all human and it shows we can be kind to each other. 😍
Kind of wish this was on a podcast
I had to laugh at the "Pin the Moustache on Hitler" game. 😆
Yessss More Ruth!! It's been so long!!!
3:11 THE DOGGO'S HELPING
Henry just doing his bit for the war effort. 😊
Daily life events is what drew me to history. Case and point.....for whatever reason it had never soaked in just HOW hard Great Britain suffered during WWII. My mother only ever talked about how it was here in America. Every,,,,,,day,,,,,,,,of my life.
Alex and is not there, but Henry is :)
THANK yOU much needed I just adore ruth peter and Alex.
Most German youth were conscripted into the hitler youth with the threat of death if they did not. My oma and opa are not nazis. They never were. Oma and the other girls in the family all got raped by the red army. That’s after they watched all the men and boys get shot. She and my great oma were the only two to survive the firing squad because she spoke Russian. So, no. Not every German soldier was a nazi. They were children and other uneducated farmers that were sent off to fight a war they didn’t believe in. My uncle was sent to the Russian front for refusing to burn down a synagogue. Several were sent to Dachau and Treblinka for hiding Jewish neighbours. So no. Not all of us were nazis.
Where is alex? I always see the three of them together its kinda weird not seeing them together. It feels like their not complete like something is missing and its alex. My fave out of the three
Alex got his doctorate and felt this was beneath him.
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Personally I was of the opinion that Alex was spoiled and thought he was above this series. If you will watch the other episodes you will notice that Alex dominated Peter. Frankly I'm happy that he is gone. Peter shines without Alex!
@@milliebanks7209 Although he wasn't above clambering across a roof barefoot with a chicken (ultimately not used) to clean out a chimney, I do rather see evidence of your opinion.
@@milliebanks7209 I totally agree!!!
Christmas is nearing and there is still a war going on in Ukraine....
Up thru the 69s, we stillused ornaments my mother had made in the 30's (eventually got too brittle) - made of bits and pieces of ccellophane (from candy, etc) and thread - stars, balls, minitrees, angels, etc . Mostabout 3" tall.They were light, delicate, very pretty with reflecting light. No $=make stuff!
Never stop the shows. I love your farm videos