What Life Was Like For An Edwardian Farmer | Edwardian Farm EP6

Six months into their year, Ruth, Alex and Peter explore the daily lives of Edwardian farmers. This episode has a slightly different format to the rest of the series; instead of covering a whole month's changes it uses a framing device of Ruth writing a letter describing the events of a single day...

56 min - Food & Drink - Absolute History

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