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 sprinkle tea leaves on the carpet? Drink beer for breakfast and clean your teeth with cuttlefish?
Ruth Goodman is a historian who specializes in the everyday life of the past. She has written and presented numerous acclaimed BBC television series and is a regular presenter on the One Show. She is the author of How to be a Victorian, and has co-authored three other books, including the Number One Bestseller Victorian Farm.
Written with such passion that one cannot help but be carried along
. . . Will fascinate and inform anyone who is in any way interested
in Victorian ways of life
*Dr Ian Mortimer, author of 'The Time Traveller’s Guide to Medieval
England'*
A delightful read . . . allows us to see how the Victorians lived
from day to day. A triumph
*Judith Flanders, author of 'The Victorian City'*
Shocking, exciting, wonderful
*BBC Radio 4*
Written with such passion that one cannot help but be carried along
. . . Will fascinate and inform anyone who is in any way interested
in Victorian ways of life
*Dr Ian Mortimer, author of The Time Traveller’s Guide to Medieval
England*
A delightful read . . . allows us to see how the Victorians lived
from day to day. A triumph
*Judith Flanders, author of The Victorian City*
Shocking, exciting, wonderful
*BBC Radio 4*
I absolutely love this book. Exuberant, absorbing ... there's
scarcely a detail of Victorian life Ruth has not tried
*Mail on Sunday*
Ruth - a woman who possesses so much elbow grease that she could
probably can the overflow to sell on the side
*Independent*
Goodman's enthusiasm for history is as palpable as her contempt for
misty-eyed interpretations of it
*Telegraph*
Beetonian, compendious
*Guardian*
Highly readable, often amusing and sometimes shocking, this is
popular history at its best
*BBC Who Do You Think You Are magazine*
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