And the fact they intently work at a successful re-enactment adds to what you were saying-I always got bored in my late 60's when all the US'reality' shows tried things&it was obvious by watching they had failed-yet in the next scene'it'ran perfectly when his love interest gave a try🙄 in breath freezing weather-When my brand new cables couldn't have jumped started-but the important' things like hair not changing length frm room to room😊So I'll watch them over&over
That is such a great tribute to the three of them-hope they read these&I agree with the feeling of reality-I mean Ruth does what my mom&grandmother did&the 2 guys are always trying 4real&it shows-I dislike some where the 'Stars' are shown doing yet
I'm so hooked on these farm docs. My favorite is the Edwardian farm. I love how everyone involved, from the experts to background extras, are in wardrobe and in character from that time period. I've learned so much and absolutely love these 3 together.
You can learn more by doing, or seeing how things are done, than by just reading about them. My grandfather had a farm in the 1930s-1980s, here in Canada. When this series aired here, my Dad and I talked about how he and his parents had used some of these same methods on their farm. They even used some of the methods we saw on "The Edwardian Farm".
I want Peter's coat. I've been looking for one like it for years. Jeez, Ruth is good value. If my history teachers were like that, I might have actually learned something...
@SRV. 123 not exactly like that one, but most army surplus stores sell greatcoats. They're just very expensive. Like, several hundred dollars, and I can't afford that. I do own a proper greatcoat, but it's not great quality. For starters, most of the buttons have come off.
@@uncle_thulhu There's no way to get a cheap greatcoat with high quality materials unless you happen upon somebody selling a nice used one, but at least the button issue is easily fixed with some needle and thread! :')
I agree! I wouldn't have ZONED Out so much If I had had teachers like Ruth (& Mrs. Flory...my 7th grade English teacher...SHE...was what a teacher SHOULD BE!!!!)
@@Ozrichead i don't think that's true, they have a massive amount of views, subscribers, and are verified, so they have to be associated with the producer/own this documentaries
I love Ruth and Peter. They do so much on the farm and go all out when they do their chores. I do find I am getting more and more interested in Absolute History. I am learning so much and I find myself watching programs over and over. I also love seeing Ruth daughter. I guess I just love learning of a homemakers roll through out the ages of time. Would love to see more of Ruth and Peter and more history. 🤗😍💕
Oh lord I did too&thinking to myself I still can't figure out why-but all the people,in all the farm series have kept these cantankerous objects of history alive-so maybe he was enjoying what's happened to him many times past&he was sortof happy Alex didn't hit it 1st go
Loved the part where Peter & Alex checking the silage..."Does it smell evil? Alex talking to the cows was too funny! "What's up girls?" I love everything & everyone in this series!
I am a Hungarian immigrant living in California and watching how the British was doing in WWII. I know a little bit form my grandmother and relatives. I heard the ugly side of it. This is interesting. I love the team. I hope they make more interesting films like this.
I live in Texas. In our neighborhood the last of the mini house like "canning" sheds are gone. One still existed unused when I bought my property in 1993 but since demolished. During WW2 there had been one on my property but gone when I bought it. But there were 2 concrete slabs and one curiously had a water line still running to it. My neighbor explained that the former owner years ago built a "wash house" and the neighborhood did laundry there with the washing machine but hung their clothes on a line to dry in their own yard. She had done many a load of wash there herself and occasionally played cards or dominoes with the other women while waiting her turn to use it. Not that they were lazy...just a 30 - 45 minute break in a 16 hour day. People were tough back in the day.
@joed596 , my mom was born about that time, as well. it's nice (and sad) to know that such practical home economics came from lessons learned during the war, and then passed on through generations.
The way I learned to do it was to gather the bits together into some pantyhose (the short kind, for feet only) to keep the bits together. The soap leaks through the hose when wet. Looks weird, granted, but works well.
Please turn down the music. The Narrator is hard to hear. Either put a compressor on the music and side chain it so it ducks down or just turn it down in general. You guys put too much work into these to have the content compete with the music. Honestly the people in the footage are heard just fine its the narrator that is too quiet. Just adding +6dB to the narrator would make such a difference.
O wouldn't it be great for the 1st or 2nd show the- money backers would dump true snotty word battles to cover the breaks where Legals won't permit 'actors' 2 risk getting hurt/or they have all beauties perfectly dressed(not that Pete's clothes couldn't use a run in that machine-still I'd watch it, if it was close to my mom&dads repeated history-so I'd know my baby days& then the50's&Korean war!
It wasn't necessary as the U.S. was basically the only major player that did not come out damaged in terms of economics and actually the increase of infrastructure and machines actually made the U.S. come out of the war better than ever. The U.S. through its resources and it being an economic powerhouse, there were not as many struggles as that in Britain.
The way crap is here and the way they keep trying to rewrite it to make them look good i would not trust it... now if this crew did it I would whole heartedly watch it... because I know they would do their homework and do it regardless of who looks bad.
#AbsoluteHistory Please read the repeated comments here that the music soundtrack is too loud and the narration soundtrack is too low for episode 3 (Christmas dinner) and episode 4 (Ministry of info). Episodes 1 & 2 seem ok. Please fix and re-upload. Thank you for posting this excellent series!
It's a licensed show that was made years ago, Aboslute History just licenses it from the rights holders, is sent a video file, and uploads it to RUclips. They don't have access to the pre-mixdown audio tracks just the one the video comes with that's already been mashed into one track. This is something that should have been caught when the show was originally produced had it been mixed by a competent audio engineer but those audio tracks are long gone and it's impossible to fix it now.
@@decfairlight3228 Shortly after all of the comments about the audio problems #AbsoluteHistory wrote, "We hear you! We're aware of the ongoing issues with some of the audio tracks on our Farm & Pharmacy videos, and we're working on fixing them." They added, "All the faulty videos will eventually be replaced, but please bear with us as we source and fix these one by one. In the meantime, please accept our sincere apologies!" That was six months ago. Hopefully they are still working on it. This same problem occurred on another series and it was corrected. 🙂
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I am just in awe of all here people, Ruth, Peter and Alex are not only knowledgeable professionals, but incredibly fit and able to actually do the work. My lifetime from 1947 to present has been choosing much easier work. Now, I’m concentrating on sleeping late and keeping animals that can wait a half an hour late to be fed (4 cats). I still remember the wringer washing machine, but it was electric! These are so close as to spark memories of parent’s friends who were farmers and kept milk herds, wheat fields, pigs, rabbits, and lots of hens and a rooster! The last were the responsibility of the women and children. No fat on any of them, books and magazines were the entertainment of choice along with violin and a brand new guitar! Eastern Oregon was a great place to grow up.
I love how they waste nothing. That's something to strive for, even when resources are plentiful. We (and I absolutely include myself in that "we") take so much for granted.
peter: i suppose the first thing we need them to do is....... middle-aged, highly respectable-looking lady: õ_Ô peter: ............ ///o_____o/// middle-aged, highly respectable-looking lady: do the business....? peter: yeahp
This episode really brings home why our grandparents never threw anything away. I mean, my parents were born just before baby boomers start, and they knew why because my grandparents told them. I understood it because I grew up without plenty. My kids? Are going to be watching this show, and enjoying it. :D (My dad also raised rabbits in the '70s, and we ate them for dinner. Yum!)
Rabbits are not kosher. But I guess some people do eat and enjoy them. I just know that I'd _really_ have to be starving before I could do that... their cute widdle faces ...
@@ThatClassic70sGirl your parents tend to shape your worldview when you're small. yes, rabbits are cute. so are chicks. if you're served them for dinner from childhood, you eat them. Everyone has something they refuse to eat, but we tend not to start until we've gotten a bit taller than the table.
No.....but there may come another time when all this information may be useful! They say history repeats its self.... If some in government had THEIR Way.......
True. We're not under threat of imminent bomb attack and watching our neighbors and potentially family members get blown to bits in some way, become homeless, etc. Not that things now aren't hard. Just perhaps not quite as bad.
Amazing learning experience watching these uploads I absolutely love this approach of recreating history. It's a treat to see how things were actually done not just talking about it and showing pictures makes me feel like I'm there with them almost. I wish my Country the United States would do a reality show like this
The guy was demanded to plow wet and ineffective soil and then then penalized for failing to do the impossible. Then ya want to take his home from him? This did go to far and it took away from the war effort to prosecute him on his own land. So yes it did go too far.
@25:47 plow up what? It seems like the war ag to me was in many ways more of a hinderance to productivity than a help. Management changes are terrible for productivity and I get the impression for this series that if something totally unpreventable happened to you then they'd steal your land out from under you. Sorry I can't defy the laws of physics and plow up a lake or un-kill my cow that injured itself. I can't imagine what that farmer went through trying to explain to some incompetent beurocrat over and over again that they can't plow up unplowable ground and then being told that their farm house that's been theirs for generations isn't theres anymore cause they couldn't defy the laws of physics.
I agree. There's plenty of room for corruption and extortion. It made sense why there was a lot of intense government oversight but by working with instead of against, by pressuring farmers who have a lifelong knowledge of their craft, they probably would've gotten better or the same results. It seems like many farmers were put in impossible positions especially if the government did little in the way of actually helping them go above and beyond what was realistic. I think this time period made the great generation very resilient. It's unfortunate they're practically gone now. They were the last generation in the west that knew true struggle for survival.
@@GeorgeMonet Like where the Bible teaches about crop rotation back in the O.T.? But today, we know _so much better_ now than it was during those old days. x_x
To paraphrase and quote Edward in the BLR video: [This series] "is my most bestest creation." I absolutely love world history between 1914-1945 and this series is beyond fascinating. My regret with it is that it's not going to be long enough; I'm watching it sparingly and still I'm almost halfway through it. Love that farm and really like these people.
Such a great series man these hosts just love and live for history, it's cool as that places like this even exist but they go out for an entire year to live in that year period. Love this series and the Edwardian Farm series, thanks again for sharing!
Ruth laughs about the most awful things required of the housewives of the war ear. It would be annoying if she wasn't so good at following through with them. She has to be my favorite. I had an aunt who saved all her handsoap remnants and pressed them to make new bars. This was in the '80's and '90's when soap was pretty inexpensive and available. The war years had lasting effects. The government made a lot of mistakes but taking people's land is unforgivable. Those farmers knew what they could and couldn't do. They seemed more than willing to do all they could.
My mother saved the bits of soap and made them into a larger bar during the war, consequently, I learned to do the same thing! I certainly don’t have to but I do save the little bits, oak them then press them into a larger chunk for use at the kitchen sink. I’ve never bought liquid soap which is expensive. A bar will last months longer and provide more moisturizer.
@@perduealexandra5736 Those scraps retain loads of bacteria! Go to the local dollar store, that's where I get Dawn dish soap, Dial antibacterial liquid hand soap (all sorts of nice kinds!), Comet cleanser and anything you nded to make natural cleaners with, too. We need to be extra sanitary, these days. My Grandpa was born in 1900, both my parents struggled hard during the Great Depression, so I grew up with frugality and homecrafting, big time. I made my poor kid eat liver and onions once a week! (He was a good sport about it, lol, says it gave him character!)
I've always been interested in WW2 Britain and I haven't ever seen anything like these Absolute History shows. A new prism for understanding world events. Well done! And if you're reading this and haven't seen the medieval series-- my by all means do so. Great! Just great.
Prime example of the government NOT being wiser than the individual: they killed a farmer for not plowing marshy land that was unsuitable for crops in the first place.
Nowadays, they just have a billionaire technocrat buy up a majority of the farmland, so that they can control it completely without having to place any pressure on the farmers to do what they want done with it.
I got the feeling there was more sympathy for the conscientious objector from a previous episode than for farmers thrown off the land and losing their livelihoods.
I'm honestly gobsmacked by the stories of the British government confiscating livestock and confiscating your FARM. That's what the Soviets did during the Holodomor. I wonder if the Germans were this tyrranical toward their farmers.
Eh? maybe its because I am used to it but am I the only one not bothered by the audio? I understand that there's probably some mixing issues (due to being on a TV channel then compressed to youtube maybe?) but if it bothers you that much turn on the auto-gen subtitles, it'll give you an idea of what it is saying at least. They can't exactly re-record the audio like most RUclipsrs can for something like this.
When watching this series, does any one else have a problem with hearing the narrator over the music? Love the series. I do wish they would fix that though.
This series is the first time I've run across any sound issues on this channel. It's extremely disappointing to see they haven't addressed this quality issue in more than a year.
*_just before the War, the Government had passed a law taking over documentary soundtracks, setting up county committees who would make sure they were too loud and overbearing to allow one to understand the narration, deterring the public, confusing production and discouraging attempts to decipher British historical information..._* Ruth is that sweet, politely effervescent, supportive fountain of knowledge who is everyone's favo[u]rite aunt.
At first, silos were built in square. However, the corners often rotted. Some genius made an obvious suggestion -- that I never would have thought of. Remove the corners. Round silos.
I'm still laughing-here in US&I know- older than your teacher-but my flashback was that our teachers could hit our hands with a ruler-flying nuns! - huge habits&all&I have all moms scarves from then(does anybody believe women wore that many&often-?
I told my stepmom once that the 1940’s were my favorite era. She said, “but there was a war!” It was funny. Even though there was a war during part of that time, I still love the simplicity of it. Things weren’t as harsh and chaotic as it is today. For some reason though, I have such an attachment to the time. My favorite period for this series which I have enjoyed immensely. I love Ruth, Peter and Alex together. I hate Alex didn’t join them for the monastery one.
You can still live in such a way, just move out to a more rural area, get rid of the majority of technology and social media. I run a small blacksmith shop, and grow strawberries, and I love making strawberry wine 😂
@22:41 How were farmers supposed to prevent things like this from happening? Like, sorry I couldn't use dark magics to revive my terminally injured cow, guess I don't have my farm anymore.
Was born 25 yrs after WWII ended. I knew there was a reason for me in saving my bar soap bits! I put left over shampoo and conditioner in different containers until full just to stretch my dollar a little more
Soapwort would be interesting to try. Before the first detergent was invented, shampoos were made from soap granules. Though much gentler than detergents (which strip too much of the hair's natural oils), they required a slightly acidic final rinse of lemon juice or vinegar to remove the soap film.
Didnt look like they rinsed the washing. My Mother used a ringer washer, and she always rinsed the clothes in a big metal tub, and then put them through the ringer to squeeze the water out. Then you hang them out to dry.
This reminded me of my great aunt Yvonne when I was younger. She had one of those washing machines where you would agitate it and then run it through the wringer to get all the water out. This would have been in the 70s. So obviously there were much much more modern machines but she still insisted on using this thing
@@Trixtah oh my goodness I got lectures about not putting my hands near the wringer part. Then the cousin ...that always did the things he's not supposed to....(including taking his father's brand new Harley-Davidson apart piece-by-piece!) decided to see what would happen if it was rolling and he shoved his hand in. He also pulled out all of his teeth one time. He has the most gorgeous straight adult teeth but he was gumming it for a year or so. Edit: Forgot to add this part he did break two fingers doing that and I believe he messed up the machine as well when he thrashed around because it hurt
The audio needs to be remixed-the music is so loud I can’t hear the people talking a lot of the time. Otherwise, this video series (and all of their videos in general) are excellent! I learn so much from the videos I feel I could do a lot of these crafts myself if I had to-and some I want to start doing because I would like to!
I love the part where the rabbit behavioural expert says, "he might spray her with urine which in rabbit language means he fancies her." And then she quickly says, "don't try it at home." LOL I'm a little worried that she thought she had better say that. I'd like to think that most human males would already know that pissing on a woman isn't social acceptable behaviour for humans.
I find it kind of errie with the end part of the spring offencive movie. After the war we did forget the country side and its people. Now with covid and all the other shit we are paying the price of such forgettfulness. I really do love these series and I kind of wish they had done more of them.
I noticed the Alfa-Laval sign in the milking parlour - I was surprised as it is a Swedish company producing pumps and separators among other things. Although I know it is a leading international producer these days, I did not know it had spread its production to the United Kingdom by the 1930s.
Kind of 'cottage'? I laughed but Ruth did try most of the sourced war food&farm-that&Alex face sheep's head stew-off milk cheese & Murky-Ea farm has some beats-they ate it all
LOL Cottage cheese is one of those foods that you either love or hate. There is no middle ground. Even the best tasting cottage cheese is wince-worthy to someone who hates it.
I am American and I have a whole new appreciation for European countries and the people that endured through the war...God bless them because this was beyond a difficult time to have lived in!!
No. They continued to important over 60% of their food mostly from the USA, but by 1943 the fear of starvation was over as the Allies had won the "Battle of the Atlantic" despite some continuing U-boat sinkings.
It also helped that the Nazis never took over their country, like they did in much of mainland Europe. One reason why many people in Nazi-occupied countries faced starvation during the war, was the because the Nazis took the best of everything from the countries they occupied and sent it off to Germany, leaving very little for the average citizens. And even when the food got to Germany, much of it went to the bigwig Nazi party members of their family, and even many normal Germans starved!
First time my grandmother talks about ploughing with a tractor is in the spring of 1942. They were farming 20 acres for the war effort, in Ohio, Grampa was froze in to war work in the city because he was an experienced molder, and Grandma kept adding hens so she could supply eggs and meat to the black market in Columbus.
The show is great but the music drowns out the narrator terribly.
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This trio rank well above the phoney wanna-bes of screen, stage and TV...The story they tell isTRUE without false glamour...a TRUE LESSON FOR US ALL......
Sometimes I forget they're not actually living in the forties and I get legitimately worried for them.
And the fact they intently work at a successful re-enactment adds to what you were saying-I always got bored in my late 60's when all the US'reality' shows tried things&it was obvious by watching they had failed-yet in the next scene'it'ran perfectly when his love interest gave a try🙄 in breath freezing weather-When my brand new cables couldn't have jumped started-but the important' things like hair not changing length frm room to room😊So I'll watch them over&over
That is such a great tribute to the three of them-hope they read these&I agree with the feeling of reality-I mean Ruth does what my mom&grandmother did&the 2 guys are always trying 4real&it shows-I dislike some where the 'Stars' are shown doing yet
Same way here. That's how you can tell it's a very well-done program.
It's because that Alex boy looks like he would freeze without *a lot* of help *A LOT* of help
lolll!
Ruth certainly doesn't shirk the duties on the farm. She's always so keen to try any tasks. The team really work well together.
Absolutely agree.
Yes exactly I have an aunt like that
You realize they stop doing anything as soon as the camera stops rolling and have all the work done by someone else?
@@OstblockLatina aka Television duh
Nah man Peter and Alex get a lot done cracking on
*sniff* I remember when they were all a bunch of peasants, and now look at them... fighting Hitler. It just warms the heart.
As Ruth’s daughter so eloquently stated, “Every crab apple picked is a poke in the eye of Herr Hitler”.
I'm so hooked on these farm docs. My favorite is the Edwardian farm. I love how everyone involved, from the experts to background extras, are in wardrobe and in character from that time period. I've learned so much and absolutely love these 3 together.
I wish they had done a WWI version.
I really like how Ruth, Peter and Alex cover a wide range of years in history. I for one am learning a lot from these videos :-)
Same
I love them too. I watch them in bed instead of TV. My bedtime is now 8:30pm. Seriously.
Me too! 🤗
You can learn more by doing, or seeing how things are done, than by just reading about them.
My grandfather had a farm in the 1930s-1980s, here in Canada. When this series aired here, my Dad and I talked about how he and his parents had used some of these same methods on their farm. They even used some of the methods we saw on "The Edwardian Farm".
I love the shows they are in together. The one about steam trains was great to watch as well.
I want Peter's coat. I've been looking for one like it for years.
Jeez, Ruth is good value. If my history teachers were like that, I might have actually learned something...
@SRV. 123 yeah, unfortunately, price IS an issue, else I'd already have one...
@SRV. 123 not exactly like that one, but most army surplus stores sell greatcoats. They're just very expensive. Like, several hundred dollars, and I can't afford that. I do own a proper greatcoat, but it's not great quality. For starters, most of the buttons have come off.
@@uncle_thulhu There's no way to get a cheap greatcoat with high quality materials unless you happen upon somebody selling a nice used one, but at least the button issue is easily fixed with some needle and thread! :')
I agree! I wouldn't have ZONED Out so much If I had had teachers like Ruth (& Mrs. Flory...my 7th grade English teacher...SHE...was what a teacher SHOULD BE!!!!)
Peter is always the best dressed on the farm. He had a fantastic green coat on the Victorian farm series.
I love your docuseries’, but in this particular one I’m having a little difficulty hearing spoken words over the music. Otherwise amazing content! 🥰❤️
yea, really a shame...
yup sound fades under music☹
@@Jinxness I did to at first. I had to check and see if I had 2 videos playing at once.😂
This is a channel that just takes TV shows and uploads them without permission to make money off the ads, they have no agency over the sound mixing.
@@Ozrichead i don't think that's true, they have a massive amount of views, subscribers, and are verified, so they have to be associated with the producer/own this documentaries
"No tea, I'm above corruption" Lmao
LOL
I love Ruth and Peter. They do so much on the farm and go all out when they do their chores. I do find I am getting more and more interested in Absolute History. I am learning so much and I find myself watching programs over and over. I also love seeing Ruth daughter. I guess I just love learning of a homemakers roll through out the ages of time. Would love to see more of Ruth and Peter and more history. 🤗😍💕
"Plow that swamp."
"But it's a frickin' swamp."
"So you have chosen death."
So very sad. Typical government incompetence.
The live stock they gave up ... should have been processed , canned , salted , smoked and put into storage .
Disappointing in the host for defending the government there. It was a frickin swamp
hes a fucking hero and should be remembered as such
@@Bedoyyk55 you can still pant something in a swamp...the brits should learn from the Asian lol
I love how the guy laughed when the other guy missed the ignition switch with the first swing of the hammer..lol
Oh lord I did too&thinking to myself I still can't figure out why-but all the people,in all the farm series have kept these cantankerous objects of history alive-so maybe he was enjoying what's happened to him many times past&he was sortof happy Alex didn't hit it 1st go
I would have modeled my scarecrow after my personal war-ag rep.
bahahahaha yes
@Silicon Nomad Just don't set it on fire.. LOL
A point to make about the ash: in addition to the potassium content, it's also useful as lime due to the calcium carbonate.
And one way to make lye you put the ash into a filter and pour hot water over it, the resulting liquid is lye and can be used to make homemade soap!
Loved the part where Peter & Alex checking the silage..."Does it smell evil? Alex talking to the cows was too funny! "What's up girls?" I love everything & everyone in this series!
I am a Hungarian immigrant living in California and watching how the British was doing in WWII. I know a little bit form my grandmother and relatives. I heard the ugly side of it.
This is interesting. I love the team. I hope they make more interesting films like this.
Don't know if you've found them, but there is other series! Edwardian, Victorian, Tudor, they've done a good amount of farming videos.
I live in Texas. In our neighborhood the last of the mini house like "canning" sheds are gone.
One still existed unused when I bought my property in 1993 but since demolished.
During WW2 there had been one on my property but gone when I bought it.
But there were 2 concrete slabs and one curiously had a water line still running to it.
My neighbor explained that the former owner years ago built a "wash house" and the neighborhood did laundry there with the washing machine but hung their clothes on a line to dry in their own yard.
She had done many a load of wash there herself and occasionally played cards or dominoes with the other women while waiting her turn to use it.
Not that they were lazy...just a 30 - 45 minute break in a 16 hour day.
People were tough back in the day.
that bit about the soaps, i kinda do something like that as well. the teeny tiny bits gets lumped with the fresh bar. i got the habit from my mom.
@joed596 , my mom was born about that time, as well. it's nice (and sad) to know that such practical home economics came from lessons learned during the war, and then passed on through generations.
I've been known to do that. The new bar goes where it gets seen, and the frankenbar lives in the laundry.
@@tlcpineda And then lost through pure laziness.
Lol..same
The way I learned to do it was to gather the bits together into some pantyhose (the short kind, for feet only) to keep the bits together. The soap leaks through the hose when wet. Looks weird, granted, but works well.
Please turn down the music. The Narrator is hard to hear. Either put a compressor on the music and side chain it so it ducks down or just turn it down in general. You guys put too much work into these to have the content compete with the music. Honestly the people in the footage are heard just fine its the narrator that is too quiet. Just adding +6dB to the narrator would make such a difference.
the music was part of the series when it was shown on television. Nothing they can do about it now.
@@jwenting that's unfortunate
Agreed.
I normally don't with bad on other people, but I when I hear this, I hope the one responsible for the audio, being this loud, got fired.
@@mikkelnpetersen i dont with bad also, but from the other people they said the sound man was executed for his crimes
I honestly have no issues with it, and I've watched on my computer & iPhone.
I wish something was out like this for America
O wouldn't it be great for the 1st or 2nd show the- money backers would dump true snotty word battles to cover the breaks where Legals won't permit 'actors' 2 risk getting hurt/or they have all beauties perfectly dressed(not that Pete's clothes couldn't use a run in that machine-still I'd watch it, if it was close to my mom&dads repeated history-so I'd know my baby days& then the50's&Korean war!
Oh me too
It wasn't necessary as the U.S. was basically the only major player that did not come out damaged in terms of economics and actually the increase of infrastructure and machines actually made the U.S. come out of the war better than ever. The U.S. through its resources and it being an economic powerhouse, there were not as many struggles as that in Britain.
The way crap is here and the way they keep trying to rewrite it to make them look good i would not trust it... now if this crew did it I would whole heartedly watch it... because I know they would do their homework and do it regardless of who looks bad.
@Tomen Atter oh thank god... im glad you didn't understand it either...I thought I had a stroke...
I love how Ruth goes all-in in every time period. The green shampoo may be my favorite experiment of a personal nature. I would love to meet her.
Check out soap nuts or berries.
#AbsoluteHistory Please read the repeated comments here that the music soundtrack is too loud and the narration soundtrack is too low for episode 3 (Christmas dinner) and episode 4 (Ministry of info). Episodes 1 & 2 seem ok. Please fix and re-upload. Thank you for posting this excellent series!
It's a licensed show that was made years ago, Aboslute History just licenses it from the rights holders, is sent a video file, and uploads it to RUclips. They don't have access to the pre-mixdown audio tracks just the one the video comes with that's already been mashed into one track. This is something that should have been caught when the show was originally produced had it been mixed by a competent audio engineer but those audio tracks are long gone and it's impossible to fix it now.
@@decfairlight3228 Shortly after all of the comments about the audio problems #AbsoluteHistory wrote, "We hear you! We're aware of the ongoing issues with some of the audio tracks on our Farm & Pharmacy videos, and we're working on fixing them." They added, "All the faulty videos will eventually be replaced, but please bear with us as we source and fix these one by one. In the meantime, please accept our sincere apologies!"
That was six months ago. Hopefully they are still working on it. This same problem occurred on another series and it was corrected. 🙂
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I am just in awe of all here people, Ruth, Peter and Alex are not only knowledgeable professionals, but incredibly fit and able to actually do the work. My lifetime from 1947 to present has been choosing much easier work. Now, I’m concentrating on sleeping late and keeping animals that can wait a half an hour late to be fed (4 cats). I still remember the wringer washing machine, but it was electric! These are so close as to spark memories of parent’s friends who were farmers and kept milk herds, wheat fields, pigs, rabbits, and lots of hens and a rooster! The last were the responsibility of the women and children. No fat on any of them, books and magazines were the entertainment of choice along with violin and a brand new guitar! Eastern Oregon was a great place to grow up.
We Pacific NorthWestern folk are hearty, lol!
this series is underrated
I love how they waste nothing. That's something to strive for, even when resources are plentiful. We (and I absolutely include myself in that "we") take so much for granted.
Yeah. Watch NHK Japan Zero Waste.
Wow the sound in this is great, not even automatic subtitles could figure out what is being said in the background of the deafening music.
peter: i suppose the first thing we need them to do is.......
middle-aged, highly respectable-looking lady: õ_Ô
peter: ............ ///o_____o///
middle-aged, highly respectable-looking lady: do the business....?
peter: yeahp
Favorite quotation of the episode...
4:27 What kinda man doesn't bend down and give a sweet good handsome boy like Henry a little pat! Sheesh!! Guy is all business!
Sound editor: Let's put in some nice, quiet, unintrusive narration to have in the background while the soundtrack plays...
My only qualm about this series. Seems like some episodes are better than others
I love these videos, I watch and rewatch them.
Ruth,Peter and Alex make history come back to life.
History is one of my favourite things.
This episode really brings home why our grandparents never threw anything away. I mean, my parents were born just before baby boomers start, and they knew why because my grandparents told them. I understood it because I grew up without plenty. My kids? Are going to be watching this show, and enjoying it. :D
(My dad also raised rabbits in the '70s, and we ate them for dinner. Yum!)
Rabbits are not kosher. But I guess some people do eat and enjoy them. I just know that I'd _really_ have to be starving before I could do that... their cute widdle faces ...
@@ThatClassic70sGirl your parents tend to shape your worldview when you're small. yes, rabbits are cute. so are chicks. if you're served them for dinner from childhood, you eat them. Everyone has something they refuse to eat, but we tend not to start until we've gotten a bit taller than the table.
Even without scarcity, I still don't want to be wasteful. Watch NHK Japan Zero Waste.
I can not put in words how much I apprecieate this sereies, many thanks.
Not nough likes and subscribed. Perfect.
I wish there were more subtitles available, My mom would love these documentaries!
When I get upset about how much things suck now I think “hey, I’m not living in GB during ww2”
No.....but there may come another time when all this information may be useful! They say history repeats its self....
If some in government had THEIR Way.......
So True!
True. We're not under threat of imminent bomb attack and watching our neighbors and potentially family members get blown to bits in some way, become homeless, etc. Not that things now aren't hard. Just perhaps not quite as bad.
@@thegracklepeck exactly
Britain had it good compared to other countries like France and Russia. Just saying...
Amazing learning experience watching these uploads I absolutely love this approach of recreating history. It's a treat to see how things were actually done not just talking about it and showing pictures makes me feel like I'm there with them almost. I wish my Country the United States would do a reality show like this
The guy was demanded to plow wet and ineffective soil and then then penalized for failing to do the impossible. Then ya want to take his home from him? This did go to far and it took away from the war effort to prosecute him on his own land. So yes it did go too far.
well the did win the war so in works lol
@@wewenang5167 how's that playing out in recent years. ?
@25:47 plow up what? It seems like the war ag to me was in many ways more of a hinderance to productivity than a help. Management changes are terrible for productivity and I get the impression for this series that if something totally unpreventable happened to you then they'd steal your land out from under you. Sorry I can't defy the laws of physics and plow up a lake or un-kill my cow that injured itself. I can't imagine what that farmer went through trying to explain to some incompetent beurocrat over and over again that they can't plow up unplowable ground and then being told that their farm house that's been theirs for generations isn't theres anymore cause they couldn't defy the laws of physics.
I agree. There's plenty of room for corruption and extortion. It made sense why there was a lot of intense government oversight but by working with instead of against, by pressuring farmers who have a lifelong knowledge of their craft, they probably would've gotten better or the same results. It seems like many farmers were put in impossible positions especially if the government did little in the way of actually helping them go above and beyond what was realistic. I think this time period made the great generation very resilient. It's unfortunate they're practically gone now. They were the last generation in the west that knew true struggle for survival.
Or how they only realized too late that they needed the dung from the livestock and the bacteria from the unworked land to keep the land fertile.
@@GeorgeMonet Like where the Bible teaches about crop rotation back in the O.T.? But today, we know _so much better_ now than it was during those old days. x_x
If world history class was more like these doc's it would have been easier to follow along...In my opinion.
To paraphrase and quote Edward in the BLR video: [This series] "is my most bestest creation." I absolutely love world history between 1914-1945 and this series is beyond fascinating. My regret with it is that it's not going to be long enough; I'm watching it sparingly and still I'm almost halfway through it. Love that farm and really like these people.
Such a great series man these hosts just love and live for history, it's cool as that places like this even exist but they go out for an entire year to live in that year period. Love this series and the Edwardian Farm series, thanks again for sharing!
Ruth laughs about the most awful things required of the housewives of the war ear. It would be annoying if she wasn't so good at following through with them. She has to be my favorite. I had an aunt who saved all her handsoap remnants and pressed them to make new bars. This was in the '80's and '90's when soap was pretty inexpensive and available. The war years had lasting effects. The government made a lot of mistakes but taking people's land is unforgivable. Those farmers knew what they could and couldn't do. They seemed more than willing to do all they could.
My mother saved the bits of soap and made them into a larger bar during the war, consequently, I learned to do the same thing! I certainly don’t have to but I do save the little bits, oak them then press them into a larger chunk for use at the kitchen sink. I’ve never bought liquid soap which is expensive. A bar will last months longer and provide more moisturizer.
@@perduealexandra5736 Those scraps retain loads of bacteria! Go to the local dollar store, that's where I get Dawn dish soap, Dial antibacterial liquid hand soap (all sorts of nice kinds!), Comet cleanser and anything you nded to make natural cleaners with, too.
We need to be extra sanitary, these days. My Grandpa was born in 1900, both my parents struggled hard during the Great Depression, so I grew up with frugality and homecrafting, big time. I made my poor kid eat liver and onions once a week! (He was a good sport about it, lol, says it gave him character!)
I've always been interested in WW2 Britain and I haven't ever seen anything like these Absolute History shows. A new prism for understanding world events. Well done! And if you're reading this and haven't seen the medieval series-- my by all means do so. Great! Just great.
Prime example of the government NOT being wiser than the individual: they killed a farmer for not plowing marshy land that was unsuitable for crops in the first place.
Nowadays, they just have a billionaire technocrat buy up a majority of the farmland, so that they can control it completely without having to place any pressure on the farmers to do what they want done with it.
Yep that's what I heard.
I love these series. Also, I really like the rabbit lady in this episode.
Alex and Ruth and their "shotgun scarecrow". That thing scared Alex to death! 🤣😂😂😂🤣
I got the feeling there was more sympathy for the conscientious objector from a previous episode than for farmers thrown off the land and losing their livelihoods.
I'm honestly gobsmacked by the stories of the British government confiscating livestock and confiscating your FARM. That's what the Soviets did during the Holodomor. I wonder if the Germans were this tyrranical toward their farmers.
Eh? maybe its because I am used to it but am I the only one not bothered by the audio?
I understand that there's probably some mixing issues (due to being on a TV channel then compressed to youtube maybe?) but if it bothers you that much turn on the auto-gen subtitles, it'll give you an idea of what it is saying at least. They can't exactly re-record the audio like most RUclipsrs can for something like this.
Me too, it doesn't annoy me as much. Well, as much as the comments lead me to believe.
I didnt notice anything with the audio until I came to the comments
@@azultaco Same, no issues here.
I wish they could pin this comment.
Me too. I am not really bothered either
When watching this series, does any one else have a problem with hearing the narrator over the music? Love the series. I do wish they would fix that though.
Ruth is such a beautiful person....God i wish we were all more like her!!!! ❤❤❤
This series is the first time I've run across any sound issues on this channel. It's extremely disappointing to see they haven't addressed this quality issue in more than a year.
I am loving this series so much. So appreciated
i wish we still fed our cattle nettles and molasses! good for the cows and good for the people eating it.
Chap with the field marshall was super nice, immediately assuming it was the cartridge’s fault and not human error. Haha
*_just before the War, the Government had passed a law taking over documentary soundtracks, setting up county committees who would make sure they were too loud and overbearing to allow one to understand the narration, deterring the public, confusing production and discouraging attempts to decipher British historical information..._*
Ruth is that sweet, politely effervescent, supportive fountain of knowledge who is everyone's favo[u]rite aunt.
At first, silos were built in square. However, the corners often rotted.
Some genius made an obvious suggestion -- that I never would have thought of.
Remove the corners.
Round silos.
Liebe diese Doku!! ♥️🙏🏻♥️
Why did that government film give me flashbacks to elementary school? I'm only in my 40s!
I'm still laughing-here in US&I know- older than your teacher-but my flashback was that our teachers could hit our hands with a ruler-flying nuns! - huge habits&all&I have all moms scarves from then(does anybody believe women wore that many&often-?
I'm so glad Ruth showed how to use soapwort! I have seeds, and i wanted learn to use more natural products.
I told my stepmom once that the 1940’s were my favorite era. She said, “but there was a war!” It was funny. Even though there was a war during part of that time, I still love the simplicity of it. Things weren’t as harsh and chaotic as it is today. For some reason though, I have such an attachment to the time. My favorite period for this series which I have enjoyed immensely. I love Ruth, Peter and Alex together. I hate Alex didn’t join them for the monastery one.
You can still live in such a way, just move out to a more rural area, get rid of the majority of technology and social media.
I run a small blacksmith shop, and grow strawberries, and I love making strawberry wine 😂
@22:41 How were farmers supposed to prevent things like this from happening? Like, sorry I couldn't use dark magics to revive my terminally injured cow, guess I don't have my farm anymore.
This was slavery ,pure and simple.
Well I have a bit of experience (modern of course)
So if you pay attention you will see problems that haven't occurred yet.
Was born 25 yrs after WWII ended. I knew there was a reason for me in saving my bar soap bits! I put left over shampoo and conditioner in different containers until full just to stretch my dollar a little more
Soapwort would be interesting to try. Before the first detergent was invented, shampoos were made from soap granules. Though much gentler than detergents (which strip too much of the hair's natural oils), they required a slightly acidic final rinse of lemon juice or vinegar to remove the soap film.
If you live in an area where it grows, Yucca is even better than Soapwort!
Didnt look like they rinsed the washing. My Mother used a ringer washer, and she always rinsed the clothes in a big metal tub, and then put them through the ringer to squeeze the water out. Then you hang them out to dry.
This reminded me of my great aunt Yvonne when I was younger. She had one of those washing machines where you would agitate it and then run it through the wringer to get all the water out. This would have been in the 70s. So obviously there were much much more modern machines but she still insisted on using this thing
Ugh, we were using one of those in the mid-80s. I was terrified of the wringer, but it did a decent job.
@@Trixtah oh my goodness I got lectures about not putting my hands near the wringer part. Then the cousin ...that always did the things he's not supposed to....(including taking his father's brand new Harley-Davidson apart piece-by-piece!) decided to see what would happen if it was rolling and he shoved his hand in. He also pulled out all of his teeth one time. He has the most gorgeous straight adult teeth but he was gumming it for a year or so.
Edit: Forgot to add this part he did break two fingers doing that and I believe he messed up the machine as well when he thrashed around because it hurt
This is a great series, let down by poor audio
Amazing program, Beautiful view of how things went in the countryside during 2 ww. We had it easier here in Holland.
Really? You need to read up on the winter of '44-'45 when thousands of Dutch died of starvation.
I love these, I really do. But whoever's job is audio, could you work on voice/background music balance please? It makes it very difficult to watch
It seems to me that cottage cheese sandwich made the guys long for a Mc Fish.
I can’t wait for the Stone Age farmer series
Such a wonderful series! Thank you, Absolute History.
Great program, but the music occasionally overwhelms what is being said.
27:03 My great grandma still does that.
i swear the music gets louder every episode
I want to be an eccentric like Ruth.
40:35 POV: Ruth and Alex are burying you alive
Remember this this winter !
I wish I could have the opportunity to live a year in history.
Ray Walden should be a national hero.
The audio needs to be remixed-the music is so loud I can’t hear the people talking a lot of the time. Otherwise, this video series (and all of their videos in general) are excellent! I learn so much from the videos I feel I could do a lot of these crafts myself if I had to-and some I want to start doing because I would like to!
Totally agree, music is far too loud.
A lot of flax was grown in Northern Ireland before the war. Belfast was called Flaxopolis because of all the flax mills there.
That soapwort shampoo looks pretty neat actually!
"Do the buisness" 😂👍🏻
And the male bunny just 'hopped' right to it!
I love the part where the rabbit behavioural expert says, "he might spray her with urine which in rabbit language means he fancies her." And then she quickly says, "don't try it at home." LOL
I'm a little worried that she thought she had better say that. I'd like to think that most human males would already know that pissing on a woman isn't social acceptable behaviour for humans.
I find it kind of errie with the end part of the spring offencive movie. After the war we did forget the country side and its people. Now with covid and all the other shit we are paying the price of such forgettfulness. I really do love these series and I kind of wish they had done more of them.
I noticed the Alfa-Laval sign in the milking parlour - I was surprised as it is a Swedish company producing pumps and separators among other things.
Although I know it is a leading international producer these days, I did not know it had spread its production to the United Kingdom by the 1930s.
Nice authentic 1940's audio to go with this. :P
49:40 Eats home-made cottage-cheese
49:43 Winces
49:45 "Mmm, it's quite nice."
Kind of 'cottage'? I laughed but Ruth did try most of the sourced war food&farm-that&Alex face sheep's head stew-off milk cheese & Murky-Ea farm has some beats-they ate it all
LOL Cottage cheese is one of those foods that you either love or hate. There is no middle ground. Even the best tasting cottage cheese is wince-worthy to someone who hates it.
I am American and I have a whole new appreciation for European countries and the people that endured through the war...God bless them because this was beyond a difficult time to have lived in!!
I love the show. My only critique is that the music can overshadow the narration. Please, start turning down the music, just a smidgen.
This channel didn't make the series. They're aware of the sound issue.
Great series..did the UK attain self-sufficiency in food during the war? The land looks very fertile.
No. They continued to important over 60% of their food mostly from the USA, but by 1943 the fear of starvation was over as the Allies had won the "Battle of the Atlantic" despite some continuing U-boat sinkings.
It also helped that the Nazis never took over their country, like they did in much of mainland Europe. One reason why many people in Nazi-occupied countries faced starvation during the war, was the because the Nazis took the best of everything from the countries they occupied and sent it off to Germany, leaving very little for the average citizens. And even when the food got to Germany, much of it went to the bigwig Nazi party members of their family, and even many normal Germans starved!
First time my grandmother talks about ploughing with a tractor is in the spring of 1942. They were farming 20 acres for the war effort, in Ohio, Grampa was froze in to war work in the city because he was an experienced molder, and Grandma kept adding hens so she could supply eggs and meat to the black market in Columbus.
I hope the folklorist Prof. Ronald Hutton can be involved somehow. I've always enjoyed his bits.
.Thank you
No matter the weather, in the middle of summer, they have on long sleeve coats and tie.
The soap trick? I have done it with an old sock and it works wonders.
Super sock-soap chunks in fancy colors in grandkids socks(1 of ea Spiderman pair) - in shower! Thanks
Ole Winny didnt look like he suffered too much.
38:55
That's lovely
The Audio is difficult to hear over the ‘music’.
The background music is really loud on this one. I do not recall it being that way on any of the others.
I love the docs in this series but if I can't hear the narration over the music and explosions I'm not likely to watch very long.
The show is great but the music drowns out the narrator terribly.
This trio rank well above the phoney wanna-bes of screen, stage and TV...The story they tell isTRUE without false glamour...a TRUE LESSON FOR US ALL......