This new 6 part TV series took the UK by storm when it was first screened by the BBC in 2009. The team of historical experts re-create and live for a year on a working Victorian Farm using only the resources available 150 years ago.In Victorian Farm, a specialist team – Ruth Goodman, Peter Ginn and Alex Langlands – have devoted a year of their lives to re-creating life in a 19th century rural environment. From the warmth of summer to the depths of winter, the clock has been turned back over a hundred years to rediscover this almost forgotten world.

From planting and harvesting crops to animal husbandry; from building pigsties to bee-keeping; from tree-felling to driving steam engines and operating period machinery, this hardy group – in their search for the authentic experience – undertook it all, wearing period costumes and using only tools and materials available in 1885.