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About We Spent A Year Working As Victorian Farmers

The documentary series "Victorian Farm" follows three historians—Ruth Goodman, Alex Langlands, and Peter Ginn—as they spend a full calendar year living and working on a Victorian farm in Shropshire, England. Their goal is to experience and document the day-to-day life of rural Victorians, a period marked by both ancient traditions and the dawn of industrialization. 💚 Join the Absolute History club to get access to exclusive member benefits! 📺 You can now become a History Hit member right here on the original video platform! Join for access to a new exclusive documentary every week, and access to over 160+ of our documentaries presented by world renowned historians like Dan Snow, Eleanor Janega, Tristan Hughes, Mary Beard, Matt Lewis and more.

We Spent A Year Working As Victorian Farmers is presented by Absolute History. Its listed runtime is 174 minutes. The source link and publisher attribution are provided with the embedded film.

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Title
We Spent A Year Working As Victorian Farmers
Category
Society
Runtime
174 minutes
Language
English

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