About 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 on the farm.
What Life Was Like For An Edwardian Farmer | Edwardian Farm EP6 is presented by Absolute History. Its listed runtime is 56 minutes. The source link and publisher attribution are provided with the embedded film.
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