How To Follow Edwardian Etiquette | Time Crashers | Absolute History 

Seriously, the actors and actresses playing the "NPCs" and especially those in direct contact with the Time Crashers are awesome. Not one slipped up and broke character.

Aren't they well-known actors? I don't know them, but maybe they are known in the UK?

Haha, exactly the thought I had xD

She’s all over this channel and this is the first time I’ve seen her play this sort of character. She played it so well I didn’t even recognize her at first, I believe her name is Ruth

@@juliajs1752 If I had known you could play NPCs in real life. Relive time periods through documentaries. I would have taken History and/or Archeology in Uni.

If you like this look up 24 hours in the past

Also you can take a look at turn back time series

@@rayskitten78 very good series!

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Try the family, also on absolute history

Ha ha yep experienced that with every one of my grands. So cute though.

their privileges appear massive as they try to become maids and servants, can't even pluck a chicken 😅 whereas in some places even killing chickens are still common, especially in some rural areas in some countries

It's a possibility that, off camera, one or more of them do realize that.

No, those masters and mistresses seem the mst miserable of anyone.

@@lilymarinovic1644 Highly agreeable. Miserable but rich.

@@wallflower1852 "Money won't buy you happiness, but it will buy you a kind of misery you can really enjoy...." 🤣

In terms of period pieces 100% agreed

Exactly

the giggling hehehe

It was torture! This jelly was made especially to make fools out of the servants (I thought)

@@ingeleonora-denouden6222 I thought the scene where one of the noble ladies rang for a maid to lift up a thingy this lady lost a few centimetres next to her feet was even more ridiculous / torturous in that regard.

@@ingeleonora-denouden6222 I've seen on historic cooking shows that jellies do seem to have been less solid back in the day for whatever reason....

@@kaitoffelkopf It was done deliberately actually. It would not have been a thing to call a servant for dropping something or picking up something so close and three of us ladies who are all historical re-enactors who really are specialists in that time period, did grumble about it privately. However, the film peeps wanted to show an "angle". However, our reactions and that of the Lady of the house were absolutely spot on when Fern dropped the cakes down the side of the sofa. I was really having to hold in my laughter! It was funny!

exactly

Not to be offensive at qll, but being dark skinned, at the time she probably would have been treated worse.(not that that is actually justified mind you) but she had it really easy for what she could have experienced.

My thoughts exactly.

A scullery maid usually was as young as 11 or 12 years old. She would have been slapped and struck about because of being so young until she fell in line. She was also trying to fight of male servants and probably assaulted by male staff several times. If she got pregnant, yikes she would end up in the streets or worse, dead from trying to rid herself of the baby or starvation. A lot of servants could be lazy or not follow the rules. They got fired all the time.

@@kaycollarfeild I don’t think this is about race. Afterall Jermaine Jenas is half Afro-Caribbean/English with a brown complexion and was paid the most out of all the footmen. This is about the fact that zoe on numerous occasions chose to not do the job that, in those days, if you were given that job, you would just do it… or starve. She gave a big spiel about being an athlete e and not quitting yet she was happy to walk off. And considering that this was a tv show, not real life… I mean come on…I’m sure they got paid to do this show.

Zoe is an Olympian who happens to be squeamish...

I'm actual shocked how down to earth she was! Really changed my opinion of her.

Well, realistically, the scullery maid was the lowest on the totem pole. It was mostly the scullery maids who quit in the actual Edwardian Era. There was another show just like this where TWO scullery maids quit the show because the work was too hard.

@@jenniferlawrence9473 she was asked to do it once. She didn't even try.

To be fair, she seems to have quite big case of phobia for animal carcasses/gore.

@@jenniferlawrence9473yes in The Edwardian Country House or Manor House as it was called in the US. The scullery maids didn’t last long and the poor kitchen maid had to do the extra work until they found the final replacement.

The lord and lady looked hard and like they couldn't care less about the very people making their lives so cushy.

@@rabbitramenthe actors who played them did good portraying how it was

She was still a vocal Trump supporter, who donated 5 million to scientology.

She is still a Trumper.

I'm a "Trumper" ya nitwits lol!

@@resnonverba137 GOOD! 👏👏👏

@@joshmofromkokomo so are over 80 million adult Americans. Don't believe for a second that Biden was voted in fairly. WAKE UP!

She didn't do shit the entire series

Yes she was annoying and lazy

If Zoe was the vegetarian one, l felt a bit sorry for her. I'm a meat eater and have struggled with butchering and plucking in the past, add in the moral factor and it must have been repulsive for her.

@@nikiTricoteuse she wasnt she said she eats meat at home

@@HallsofAsgard96 Ah. Thanks. I petty much lost track of who was who. I'm in Aotearoa so don't really recognise most of them. 🙂

Could you imagine if that was in her family tree?! It’s got to be in someone’s hasn’t it?

Fun, I'll have to look for her now :)

I work in healthcare. We don't get to pee or eat either. She reminds me of every shitty lazy coworker I've ever had.

@@pfft8858 sorry?

So because you accept deplorable working conditions, everyone else should to? If everyone thought like you, we'd still be working 14 hour shifts for peanuts. Also, as someone who works in "healthcare" you should know that constantly holding in pee will only cause you issues in the long term.

Because this is a TV show and in life every one doesn't do what they are told. Remember, she is also young. It makes the program more interesting. There were a lot of lazy servants who either got by or sacked. Life went on.

@@stephanieoliver8634 Spot on Also, The film people ALWAYS have an "angle" (this is the "Entertainment" side!). Even us re-enactors, though we pointed out the Lady of the house unless **really** vile, was not going to be pointedly "rude" to the servants. Us "Ladies" at the tea party were asked to constantly ring for the servants to pick up the a book or a handkerchief that was cms from us. It wasn't likely this ever happened but thats what the film people wanted. They didn't expect cakes to fall down the 18th century original sofa though! :-)

This documentary isn't accurate in any way of the period. Look to something like Manor House which was made in 2001. It is highly accurate.

Kirstie was always a beautiful woman and a favorite actress of mine. She knuckled down in every one of these episodes in getting dirty and suffering all the hardships better than most of the celebrities and she always displayed a down-to- earth personality. RIP Kirstie.

You can bet that none of these fat cats at the shooting party would last a minute in a muddy, lice and rat infested Western Front trench.

@@rabbitramen I always liked Kirstie Alley, from Star Trek to Cheers and beyond. Excellent versatile actress and a beautiful lady. What I mostly and what I loved about her was she was just a normal down to earth and kind human being., and that’s what’s makes me sorry for the loss.

I can see that too even just out of spite like : Now there is a opportunity to bee seen and show the snops what we can do

I can't believe she was 65 in this! She looks amazing!!!

@@kaylamarie1796 No, she looks 65. What makes her amazing is that she is perfectly comfortable about it and is growing older as nature intended and not with a face like a Barbie doll. If you feel comfortable in your skin you will always be beautiful. You won´t need a mountain of gloop as a young woman to prove it either

She was one of the most sensible of the women and seemed to really want to get stuck in as accurately as possible. Sadly I didn't see her when I was one of the Ladies at the Tea Party.

some of her best work!

The socialite woman literally said she grew up never having to do anything and she STILL did more than Zoey

In this time period, Zoey with her insolence would have been fired before her first hour was half finished and of course her future has already been mapped out.

Hi! I was there! I was one of the Ladies at the Tea Party. It was lovely filming, though we were not close to the Celebs. We did have I think it was Kirsty Alley walk past us in the morning just as we were all about to get our hair done (which was amazing! I have lovely photos of mine and two of the other ladies hair - we are all re-enactors). However, we were asked to be silent, and Kirsty was blindfolded as she was walked past. When she and any of the other celebs were having their makeup/dress/hair done they were blindfolded at all times and remained so till they were positioned in the first scene to be filmed. I will say us ladies were not "obnoxious" - we were expected to do the silly things because the film peeps wanted a specific angle. However, Fern dropping the cakes was not planned AT ALL. And our reactions were genuine and real - and would have been in the time period. It was hilariously funny! If you want to ask any other questions, feel free.

@@myladyswardrobe I don't want to ask you anything, I just want to say that I envy you. I mean, I wouldn't want to live in those harsh and trying times, especially given what a lazy ass I am, but I would sign up for such a reenactment at once. I'm a 41 years old dude from Romania and I wouldn't want to reenact my country's history, but I would sign up for a Victorian era reenactment. I can't explain why (cause I have no idea why) but I find that era so fascinating, and I absolutely love medieval fashion (women's dresses in particular), and the goth / steampunk fashions, too. Just.... amazing stuff. You've been so lucky to have starred in one of these shows :(

And?

That's really nice. 🙂 That didn't happen at my house, however there was a family I used to stay with sometimes, and their children were taught to ask this as well. This would've been in the early '90s.

Exactly what I was saying to myself. The hallboy is taller than them all!

They give the worst jobs to the athletes. There seems a celebrity hierarchy going on here.

@@eringalin2075 I noticed that, too, The weight lifter and the Olympian almost always get horrible jobs, or get put at the lowest rungs of the social ladder. What gives?

@@venus_envy they're probably the only ones with the physical strength to do the really hard graft.

@@venus_envy i noticed that too - seems unfair

that was my thought too

I yes! We need much more of such history lessons! I totally agree!

Have you seen the Edwardian/Victorian/Wartime Farm Series'? There are other periods too, but I can't remember them. They're absolutely worth the time and I learned so much.

@@AnotherWittyUsername. No I don't think I have. 🤔 I'll have to check it out.☺️

@@AnotherWittyUsername. they were so good weren't they. Too bad they were so short too. Boy Ruth sure cleaned up so pretty in the Wartime series. Wartime Farm I believe it was called.

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No one would do this in america that are actual celebrities

It is the kind of reality TV I could be enticed to watch.

PBS has done something similar a long time ago. Ranch House and Colonial House.

It's true. American tv is nothing but crap.

@Digby Dooright I like your user name. Cheers.

That's precisely why you should think hard instead of shutting your brain off. Thanks for the pandemic, carnist. :)

Yes, there would be a lot more servants for that time period and manor house. More servants showed more wealth.

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Not necessarily. Up until World War I being a servant was considered a highly honorable occupation, and considering what life on a farm or in a factory or mine could be like, there was no shortage of people who wanted to enter service. The servant class dwindled with the advent of electric household appliances, but these appliances were made necessary due to the death toll of World War I.

@@purrdiggle1470 not all over Europe. If your parents ‘rented’ the farm from some lord and you had the misfortune to be the eldest daughter you had to serve in the ‘big house’ at least for a year or two. Only chance to leave before the two years would be an engagement (because the local priester would get involved if deemed a ‘good match’) or you had ‘a calling’ (becoming a nun) and a younger sister who could replace you. It was considered a ‘duty to one’s parents’ not some ‘escape’ from a factory. The only reason my grandmother (Born in 1904) escaped serving in ‘the big house’ as a scullery maid: being the only child Of parents who only after 15 yrs of marriage got a living infant. Being an only child, my great-parents could afford to hire dayworkers who could replace the ‘missing Sons And daughters’ in the fields and sent my grandmother to school. She became a typist And ‘telephone girl’, thus meeting a white-collar man outside the little village. Her being an only child was the start for my family to raise themselves from the fate of little farmers with 10+ children.

​@@ikkelimburg3552Where was this? I've studied a lot of English social history, but I've never heard of this requirement for daughters to work as maids before. To be honest, it sounds like a bad deal for the owner of the house. Why would you want a farm girl, who may be an undesirable worker, in your house? Wouldn't it make more sense for the employer to choose the maid who was prettiest and with the best references? Rather than being stuck with a constantly rotating body of servants who don't know what they're doing, aren't invested in their work or moving up the ladder eating your food and potentially stealing the silver?

I know right. Like...I wanna plunk some feathers!!

I wonder where I went wrong with the 'knowing more about your food, so you can appreciate it' thing. I learned more about meat, figured out that I was a hypocrite for eating it since I would never want to skin an animal or anything like it and became a vegetarian XD

@@avideostarworldwillemijn8066 Many people just buy the processed one in the supermarket or just buy the cooked one like in restaurant without knowing where their food comes from. It's not wrong tho to buy the packed or cooked one. My point is better to know your food too like how it comes, where it comes, and add some knowledge about it. When you know more about it, you can appreciate more about your food like how hard it is to raise animal, how the farmer's hardwork can supply you with some meats, etc. You will be thankful about your food when you have awareness about it. Ofc it doesn't only apply in meat, but other food too like vegetable, rice, dairy product, etc.

@@sarisari4521 Well said.

I grew up on a farm where we processed and I say that because the other word is so cringing. I actually forgot how to cut them up. But I agree 100%.

At least they had jobs!! We won't have jobs soon... Just saying, robots will do all of our jobs... I don't want to be bored

@@ashleelarsen5002 if work is the only thing you can occupy your time with or you'd otherwise be bored, I'd recommend finding a hobby or two and a life pursuit and nurturing relationships. If implemented right (key phrase), its a good thing for robots to take up certain jobs so regular people can pursue artistic and other passions that's always been limited to nobility and ultra rich in the past

If she had plucked the birds, afterwards she would have to cut them open and take the guts out (etc.)

I understand a bit where she was coming from this day and age you kind of forget how meat ends up in our kitchens you buy it already prepared in a supermarket so you don’t really think about how it’s come to that so to be faced with a dead animal meat eater or not you would find it uncomfortable and find it hard because your seeing it as an animal that was alive once and not just meat on a plate I don’t think I’d be comfortable with it but saying that I would still try to give it a go just for the experience and it would make you appreciate it a little more

Overall I did too. While I think that at times Zoe could have rolled with it a bit better, she said later in the series that she was not much on domestic tasks and wanted to be outside doing what the guys were doing. Unfortunately women didn’t do as many of the tasks that required strength and being outdoors at that time. Zoe’s talents simply would not have been valued in a woman living at that time. Besides, being a scullery maid was a really thankless job. I can understand her frustration.

Maybe or it could be his life experiences

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They forgot the cook! My friend was the cook in the 1913 episode and had her scenes "forgotten".

@@myladyswardrobe Shows like this don't really serve any purpose. It would take at least several months in a historic setting to really get an idea of what reality was like.

It's a social thing. The servants would have been like your table, just part of the furniture from infancy on, you wouldn't know any better. Besides that, eating with one's guests or as a guest allows a show of table etiquette, helps in maintaining social status, and is just good manners, it would be social suicide to eat alone in that setting.

I always take pleasure in the fact that everything they ate would have been Stone Cold. By the time it got to some distant dining room or field. I also hope none of it arrived unadulterated. ' Pee-sorryGravy sir ? Do yo uwant phlegm.sorry, Cream on your apple pie?' Lol

@@hogwashmcturnip8930 Your comment was messed up. You could make people really sick. You wouldn't like it if people got revenge on you when you're not perfect either. The noble men weren't mean. Look at comments on the Night of the Consumers gameplay. Some modern customers bully workers too.

My comment was messed. up. Says someone quoting a computer game As for 'the noblemen weren't mean' that is just Sooo Funny. Have a happy life licking their boots serf! When you drop by the Real World, give us a call,.

In the time period a hallboy would have been the youngest member of the male staff. It was an entry-level job the way scullery maid was for females.

You would have done what you had to do to stay alive and feed your family. Lots of black people say that now about slavery but we had to survive. Everyone wasn't a Fredrick Douglas or a Harriett Tubman. Reality is, we would have done what was necessary to stay alive.

@@meganshort5550 True enough. I'm still pretty sure I would've been shot. 🤭

I'd be sacked because I have no poker face. Every time I'd think something was stupid it'd show on my face. You'd get fired, and I'd get fired for questioning authority when I'd look at them like "But why? She can't help it." Lol

@@rachelg9873 good job we weren’t from them times then.. we probably be destined for the workhouse or jailed for being useless 😆

@@Dani..663 me too, and I was actually thinking out loud, "that I'd rather live off berries, grass, the neighbour's koi carp fish, rather than bow down to the anally retentive rich bitches 😂🤣🐠🐠🐠😂🤣

Zoe

@@resnonverba137 whatever

@@tyrongkojy It was even written down for you. What more do you need?

Is she a vegan, or at least a vegetarian? That's the only reason I'd understand her being upset over plucking birds.

@@DarkLadyJade No, she isn't. If she were, it would be no excuse. The animal was dead.