During World War Two Britain had to look to the land to provide the produce it had previously shipped in from abroad, meaning huge changes on both the agricultural and domestic scenes. Accompanying an 8-part BBC series and written by the three presenters who spend a year living on a reconstructed fa[...]
No electricity, no gas, no flushing toilet, and no tractor Could you survive a year on a Victorian farm? In this fascinating time-traveling experiment a team of historians spend a year recreating farm life in 1885. Accompanying the television series, this book follows the team as they try to run a [...]
The authors are trained historians, driven by new research and discovery. This book lets you follow them as they discover how to build a pigsty, brew their own ale, forge their own machinery and keep a Tudor household.[...]
Following on from the hit BBC series "Victorian Farm," this book accompanies a new 12-part BBC series. This time, Ruth Goodman, Alex Langlands, and Peter Ginn take a leap forward in time to immerse themselves in an Edwardian community in the West Country. In the nineteenth and early twentieth centur[...]