The organic diet of 1885, use of natural products for cleaning and healthcare and interests in crafts and gardening are of increasing relevance today as we look for a more responsible way of living over 120 years later. Providing a real insight into life on a Victorian farm, this series is also a fascinating reminder of how history comes full circle. Practical projects allow you to join the historians in rediscovering Victorian crafts, cookery and homecare. In-depth features describe revolutionary advances in more detail, including new inventions, new breeding methods and advances in agricultural science. Packed with informative text and photographs from the farm year, this book reveals exactly what the Victorians, ate, wore, how they managed their animals, farmed the land and organised their lives. This was a crucial period in the history of Britain - rapid industrialization had radically changed life in the cites but rural communities used a mixture of centuries-old and pioneering modern practices. Accompanying the series, this book follows the team as they try to run a farm using only materials and resources that would have been available to them in the Victorian era. No electricity, no gas, no flushing toilet … and no tractor! Could you survive a year on a Victorian farm? In this fascinating time-travelling experiment Lion Television, with the BBC, follow a team of historians who will spend a year recreating farm life in 1885. Peter Ginn is a British archaeologist, best known as a presenter of the BBC educational television documentary series (2005-2014) known as the BBC historic farm series.
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