How to be a Victorian

Release on 2013-06-27 | by Ruth Goodman

If you liked A Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England or 1000 Years of Annoying the French, you will love this book. ***** 'Goodman skilfully creates a portrait of daily Victorian life with accessible, compelling, and deeply sensory ...

Author: Ruth Goodman
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 9780241958346
Category: History
Page: 480
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How to be a Victorian

How to be a Victorian - travel back in time with the BBC's Ruth Goodman Step into the skin of your ancestors . . . We know what life was like for Victoria and Albert. But what was it like for a commoner like you or me? How did it feel to cook with coal and wash with tea leaves? Drink beer for breakfast and clean your teeth with cuttlefish? Dress in whalebone and feed opium to the baby? Catch the omnibus to work and do the laundry in your corset? Surviving everyday life came down to the gritty details, the small necessities and tricks of living . . . How To Be A Victorian by Ruth Goodman is a radical new approach to history; a journey back in time more intimate, personal and physical than anything before. It is one told from the inside out - how our forebears interacted with the practicalities of their world - and it is a history of those things that make up the day-to-day reality of life, matters so small and seemingly mundane that people scarcely mention them in their diaries or letters. Moving through the rhythm of the day, from waking up to the sound of a knocker-upper man poking a stick at your window, to retiring for nocturnal activities, when the door finally closes on twenty four hours of life, this astonishing guide illuminates the overlapping worlds of health, sex, fashion, food, school, work and play. If you liked A Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England or 1000 Years of Annoying the French, you will love this book. Ruth Goodman is an independent scholar and historian, specialising in social and domestic history. She works with a wide range of museums and other academic institutions exploring the past of ordinary people and their activities. She has presented a number of BBC 2 television series, including Victorian Farm, Edwardian Farm and Wartime Farm. In each of these programs, she spent a year recreating life from a different period. As well as her involvement with the Farm series, Ruth makes frequent appearances on The One Show and Coast.

Language: en
Pages: 480

How to be a Victorian

Authors: Ruth Goodman

Categories: History

Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-06-27 - Publisher: Penguin UK

Language: en
Pages: 464

How to Be a Victorian: A Dawn-to-Dusk Guide to Victorian Life

Authors: Ruth Goodman

Categories: History

Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-10-06 - Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

A “revelatory” (Wall Street Journal) romp through the intimate details of Victorian life, by an historian who has cheerfully endured them all. Lauded by critics, How to Be a Victorian is an enchanting manual for the insatiably curious, the “the cheapest time-travel machine you’ll find” (NPR). Readers have fallen in

Language: en
Pages: 352

How to be a Tudor

Authors: Ruth Goodman

Categories: History

Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-11-05 - Publisher: Penguin UK

TRAVEL BACK IN TIME WITH THE BBC'S RUTH GOODMAN We know all about the dramas that played out in the Tudor court - most notably those of Henry VIII - but what was life really like for a commoner like you or me? To answer this question, the renowned "method

Language: en
Pages:

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Authors: Ruth Goodman

Categories: History

Type: BOOK - Published: 1879 - Publisher:

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Language: en
Pages: 149

Nebraska Off the Beaten Path

Authors: Hannah McNally

Categories: Nebraska

Type: BOOK - Published: 1996-11 - Publisher:

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