'Motor cars meant people could get around quicker, people were flying… but this was only for the rich and those in the cities. 'The Edwardian era was an incredibly exciting age it gave us the wireless, and electric power,' explains archaeologist Alex. And now they're re-creating the magic two decades later in the Edwardian era, at historic Morwhellham Quay in Devon. The book accompanying the series was a number-one bestseller, while the DVD of the series was pipped to the top of the Amazon sales chart only by the James Bond film Quantum Of Solace. Most of us will recognise this formula from the incredibly popular series Victorian Farm, which saw the same trio spend a year living on a farm in Shropshire as it would have been in 1885.Īt its height, more than six million viewers tuned in to watch them plough a field, seal a jar with a pig's bladder and cook a cow's tongue as big as a shoebox. In full costume they spent a year living with no running water or electricity, undertaking backbreaking work both in the house and on the land. This is just one of the grim revelations in Edwardian Farm, a new series in which historian Ruth and archaeologists Alex Langlands and Peter Ginn recreate life on a 1900s farm. Recreating the magic: After spending a year on Victorian Farm, Ruth Goodman is now spending a year at Morwhellham Quay in Devon living life in 1905
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