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

That's awesome, when did they emigrate?

American dream, baby!

Bravo to them! That’s not a common thing so your family must be very proud of your ancestry. I truly hope that house continues to stay in the family for many more generations to come. I’m glad I read your comment. It’s a nice ending to the video.

That’s awesome! Bless them.

My family came from Ireland and suffered during the famine some moved to the USA my grandmother told me that she was related to Bing Crosby she remembers his mother coming to Ireland to visit them when my grandmother was a child, I don't know if this is true but if it is then I have a famous relation 🙏

i call these REAL reality tv! love these series

I love these kinds of tv shows.

If you like this you'll like "the worst jobs in history" and any other historical shows with Tony Robinson

@@questionmark9819 I've watched that series but there aren't many episodes of it on RU-vid

That's a shame, it was a good series. Have you ever watched "time team"? That's a historical show where they dig up stuff, not sure if it's exactly the same but you may like it. Victorian Farm or Tudor Farm was on I think on BBC2, interesting stuff too. We love our history here in the UK. The Peasants' Revolt was really good, Tony Robinson does lots of these shows.

And she knows a few things about kitchens!! Lots of actresses don’t actually learn to cook-not even well enough to feed themselves. I was impressed the most when Kirsty caught the teeny tiny flame with a candle after the using tinder, flint and steel. I know it’s supposed to be common sense, but it was really good thinking on her part

I can't quite past the fact that she is a very dedicated $cientologist. I feel the same way about Tom Cruise and John Travolta. His wife Kelly Preston.waited too long to see a non-$cientologist oncologist so her breast cancer had already spread. When their son died they were not allowed to grieve.

I feel like she's the strongest in the series. The benefits of being a has-been? I've been rooting for her since Cheers, but she's had some challenges...

@@marthahawkinson-michau9611 She was quite confident when she found herself in the kitchen the first time and was asked to improvise on a failed dish. She said that as a hostess she has done many dinner parties and made many dishes and fixed problems herself. I was especially impressed when she (and the others) excelled in the medieval kitchen. All those meals that she helped pull off was mind boggling. She had the most fun doing this. Good for her!

In all the periods so far Greg and Kirstie would be people I'd hire. Greg mucks in with no complaints and works hard, Kirstie has the widest skill set of all of them. Pity she wasn't in the dairy, she already said in a previous episode she can milk cows too.

Me too. Never liked her much as an actress, but here she is really good.

and why wouldn't she be good at cooking and decision making? Actors in Hollywood are just like all of us; and usually prior to their big break, would have labored over many varied jobs. I have heard big stars saying they worked as short-order cooks, waiters/waitresses, gas station attendant, barber, garbage collector, landscaper, construction worker, store manager, auto mechanic, dancers/singers, etc. Perhaps renowned actors discovered as children, like the Olsen twins, may never have learned life skills of making a living. But I think if deep in a person's character they are hard workers with strong discipline, anyone can apply themselves and be good at most things tried.

I agree, her moment at 40:34 is so poignant "I could get jiggy with it". I hate her politics but she's got a great work ethic and a solve-it attitude.

@@thornyback why does her political views bother you? Perhaps you should ask yourself why you felt the need to even bring it up.

Having seen several of these experimental archeology shows in the U.S. I am glad to see that she's as enthusiastic about the experience, when in the Colonial House series or the Pioneer House series, the Americans were constantly cheating and sneaking and refusing to embrace the experience fully. Kind of ruins the experience for the viewers and takes away from the experience of living the past.

Right? I was put off because she was cursing in the intro, but she throws herself into it and does the best she can. And she's funny. :)

@@azurephoenix9546 because she is pretty much a bigot nowadays, soooo

I know right?! It's great!

You should check out their Edwardian Farm, Georgian Farm, and Victorian Farm series!! They're just as good as this series!!!! I've watched them all, including the Christmas specials, like 3 or 4 times already!! Lol

You might like the "Farm" serieses. Victorian Farm, Edwardian Farm, Tudor Monastery Farm... All are available on RU-vid as well as Amazon Prime. They star a historian, Ruth Goodman, and 2 archaeologists, Peter Ginn and Alex Langlands, and they spend an entire year on a farm set in the respective time periods. You actually learn a LOT about the lives of the people who actually lived in those times.

@@reverendsquirrel I did find those a few days ago. I love them! I always thought I'd love to have been alive back during those eras, boy oh boy! I do not feel that way anymore. Lol.

Haha yeah, I know the feeling. Even being a broke ass bitch, I'd still rather live in the 21st century. I notice that anything with Ruth, Peter, and/or Alex is entertaining as well as educational. Same with Sir Tony Robinson, the presenter for this show. I fell in love with him on Time Team. He's gonna be 75 this year.

She'd end up starving in a gutter😪

The Aristocracy treated the real workers as slaves as they do today!!!

Yep she comes across as a right moaning snowflakey type, and doesn't like being told what to do...

Zoey has been the weakest of the cast. It feels like she's not even trying. Sure everyone had an issue of being looked down upon. But they at least made an honest go at it. They were committed to what they signed up for. She just flat out gives up.

@@FireFr0ggy Yes, as the other woman got on with the job like adults, even when things didn't go right for them, but kept at it regardless. Zoe just sat about whining about her tasks, and wanted to be outside with the lads, to play with the animals, or probably flirt wit them..

Me, who's had microbiology classes relating to the food industry....... Listeria, Staphylococcus, E. coli, coliforms.... Whatever may lay in these things wont be good. But a few good hand washes should be enough to clean everything off.

@@Poodleinacan I’m not saying it wouldn’t, I know if you wash your hands it’ll clear up most of the germs. But when you have OCD and/or a fear of germs. You know logically your hands will clean. But your mind makes it a bigger thing that it is. Sometimes it’s not so much the germs or the dirt. It’s the thought of it. There have been times where I have been in extreme distress over just opening a door in my own home, because of the potential germs. I know my hands will clean, but it’s still the thought of touching it. That’s why I’m commending him. He faced his fears and got in the pen.

@@MrOhSchnitzel You will get through it too. Just be gentle with yourself. The current situation must be hell for you, or maybe the masks and hand gel help? It must be awful to deal with. I just think the biggest germs on the planet are humans, so if I can deal with them, nothing else will kill me! Maybe if you can tweak your outlook, that might help? Not easy, I know, especially as you said you realise. Dare those bugs! Touch that door handle! then, when they don't kill you, you have won for a while. Every time you touch things and don't get sick, you have won! Eventually you will be invinceable. . In that you will literally be able to handle things. How do you deal with supermarkets or clothes shops? You are bigger than a germ! Despite Covid!

@@Poodleinacan you can't logic OCD, no matter how many microbiology courses you take. If germs/bacteria are your trigger, logic won't beat that back. Sincerely, a trained chef and dietitian.

Bless your heart! You're absolutely right. However, what sucks with OCD is it's not about logical fear. It's Obsessive Compulsive Disorder -- meaning the fear trigger is a larger-than-life fixation that is extremely hard, if impossible, to override with logic. It all depends on the severity of the disorder as to whether mind-over-matter is enough to push through it. That said, with medication, therapy AND your optimism, one might be able to bring it under a reasonable level of control. Chris’s mind over matter attitude was enough for him. He said it was like a switch went off in his brain--his determination to get the job done was enough to override his irrational fixation and fear. So your optimism and empowering thoughts can help!

And they were fit for a strenuous job which usually meant they were young.

And they were frequently resistant to smallpox, so more likely to have unscarred faces.

nearly everyone else was scarred with smallpox so the dairy maids must have been envied. By catching cow pox, it made them resistant to smallpox. Such a terrible virus...it killed more people than any other virus in history.

and they got the cream... mmmmmm. I'd kiss a milkmaid for some cream.

They didn’t have germ theory yet, but dairy producers have understood the connection between contamination and food spoilage for centuries. It’s exactly why they always kept the dairies spotlessly clean.

Or quit the show. Why did she even agree to participate?

I agree it's so frustrating seeing a grown woman act like a dejected teenager who doesn't want to participate. Also I would say that women have only liberated themselves recently and we should all be thankful that they have, but what does she expect going on a living history program apart from cleaning/being in a kitchen? I mean it is highly likely that they would be. They tried to change it for the jousting episode by making them all men but that was more an episode in a bottle. It just frustrates me because however stressful it looks it also looks like a fantastic experience. Weird also that the other sports people on here have such positive attitudes even when Greg was emptying chamber pots.

It has been indeed. Very sad that she just passed away recently.

Agreed! She was such a trooper & was a multi-talented lady. I like how even after being a Hollywood actress for decades, she didn't forget her country girl skills. RIP Awesome lady.

It's sad that Chole said sje'd do better as a prostituted woman😪. Really shows her disconnect not only with the jobs she does have but how horrible prostitution is.

Oh I disagree, I’m well informed about this time and the prostitution comment gave me a right good chuckle.

Especially with baking!! I couldn’t imagine baking like that. I suppose one would get used to it.

I feel like she's the strongest in the series. She has more domestic skills than anyone else. Also, who knew she's a skilled freehand painter??

His face when he was told "you're good with the backsides" or whatever... Hahahah! That sure worked against him.

Same! 😆

You are not alone, love goats

absolutely adorable, bouncy animals -- the babies are made of springs!!! heehee

Goats are great!

I love them. Would like to havd a pygmy goat, but I know they eat and chew on everything.

goats are and always have been my favourite animal. guess those petting zoo trips really stuck with me haha

The Victorian Edwardian era could be considered a time when the status (in society and financially) of servants are very strict. Well at least compared to earlier periods (there was still class distinctions between master and servants, but not in the same way in the Victorian and Edwardian era.) As you can see in the 18th-century servants were allowed to wear clothes ( which enables them to dress as nice as they could afford on their salary) and use their own names. The servants in the 18th century, have been known to dress so nicely that there have been many satirical prints that make fun of the fact that maids dress as nicely as their mistresses. Search "John Raphael Smith “Like Mistress-Like Maid” 1781" to see what I mean Fashion was something accessible to everyone thanks to cast-off clothing from the rich. Daniel Defoe wrote about it in a pamphlet in the 1720s which said , " It is a hard Matter to know the Mistress from the Maid by their Dress, nay very often the Maid shall be the much finer of the two… The Apparel of our Women-Servants should be regulated… I am entirely against any Servants wearing of Silks, Laces, and other superfluous Finery; it sets them above themselves, and makes their Mistresses contemptible in their Eyes." You can actually see the change of the attitude towards servants in this documentary (Link below) "Servants: The True Story of Life Below Stairs. Part 1 of 3 - Knowing Your Place." : ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-wqiMASk5MIU.html

Yeah The Edwardian mistress looked like she had a nasty smell permanently lodged up her nose. The Georgian work while hard and life far from our modern "comforts " was a step up. Of course it's also possible the gang just got lucky this go around.

My understanding is that calling someone by their first name in this time period was actually a sign of their inferiority. For example a mistress would call servants by their first names, but if you read Jane Austen or other works from the Georgian period you will notice everyone calls their equals and superiors "Miss so-and-so" "Mr such-and-such" or by whichever title they hold. Even wives in their homes refer to their husbands as "Mr ". Basically it's being respectful. So in this case calling them by their first names is less friendly and more a sign of reinforcing class and status.

@@--enyo-- Right! So imagine calling them by a first name that isn’t even theirs. Not only are you going by a first name, but they don’t even bother to remember what your first name is to begin with, reminding you yet again of just how inferior you were.

Many viewers on yt don't memorize people's names either. There's many comments who just call people by their appearance or what they do.

She just seems to be good at everything. Never would have thought her good at things like caring for animals or starting fires :)

@@how_about_naw most "stars" who come from the mid-west area, or who don't live in LA/Malibu actually are pretty nice. Not all, but most.

@@how_about_naw she's a kansas born.

@@kristic4472 She seems nice on this show, but she's a pretty huge bigot. Being from the midwest, I definitely don't claim her

@@Katiethewizard In what way is she a bigot?

For someone to have the discipline to be an Olympic weight lifter, she’s very quick to give up on her tasks. Compared to the last kitchen this one wasn’t that bad. She just had to grate some sugar for goodness sake!

Agreed. She’s the worst. Very annoying and lazy.

Complains soooo much. It’s always a victim mentality. If she does this just take the L and go.

I love learning about how people lived in a time period before my own. I am a history nerd

Laughs in Sherlock fandom

She's also a Scientologist. She's in a cult that ruins people's lives, and she viciously defends it. She may be pretty, but she's not very nice.

@@hippymama100 oh no, that's sad to hear, brainwashed 😕

@@hippymama100 I’m a Christian and not into Scientology. I don’t see that she pushes her beliefs on everyone, just as I don’t. I love her in this and she seems so real and positive in it. I’m enjoying it 🤷🏻‍♀️

@@proudmarinemomma827 she is known to publicly shame, shun and disparage people who speak out against scientology, which is an abusive cult.

@@hippymama100 I guess I’ve never seen that. I like some of her movies and this is very interesting to me.

What are you from Mongolia or something

500 degrees???

Seriously? I was about to turn this off as soon as I saw her face.

At least someone thinks so.

@@blueoval250 why?

She's making us Wichitans proud.

@@melanieortiz712 If you're a Trump-loving scientologist I would understand that.

To keep her away from the camera. She is a right grouse and would ruin morale.

she got fired from the last job and was walking back to town. so I guess she was teleported as far away as she got from the last house/farm.

As always Kristy can survive. Zoey will probably be all whiney and sullen and fail.

I remember that episode too! She has legit skills.

"The United States have just won their independence..." Kirstie: "YAAAY!!!!" 😂

I'm proud of her as a fellow Wichitan.

Put her as she is in an Asian culture...we'll see then.

Model farm life

You could. I've made my own cheese. Back in second grade we learned how to burn butter rolling coffee tins back a forth across the classroom floor.

Pro tip: milk cows from the side, milk goats from behind 👌

Oh you def could. But one thing to remember is that your tied down on a farm unless you have someone you trust to do the farm. Just a thought if you should seriously think about it. It's very rewarding and satisfying.

Which one is Dr Cassie... Oh wait yes. Cool

Love that Tony so often has Time Team members on his other shows.

it might be the Edwardian episode

The episodes so far are: 1. How To Make A Feast From The Elizabethan Era 2. Time Crashers Take Part In A Medieval Jousting Tournament 3. How To Follow Edwardian Etiquette 4. A Day In The Life Of A Georgian Servant