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About What The Day-To-Day Life Was Really Like For A Georgian Servant | Time Crashers

It is now the Georgian period and the group are on a farm where the women must milk goats and make butter and cheese, as well as bake bread. The men must tend to the livestock, sprucing up the animals for the gentleman farmer's inspection, and it is Chris, usually the loose cannon of the team, who comes in for the most praise.

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What The Day-To-Day Life Was Really Like For A Georgian Servant | Time Crashers
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