How To Follow Edwardian Etiquette | Time Crashers | Absolute History

The Time Crashers are now servants at a country house in the year 1913 but their employers are not the cosy fantasy figures of 'Downton Abbey'. Housemaid Fern disgraces herself serving tea to the hatchet-faced lady of the house and Zoe Smith is summarily dismissed without a reference for refusing to pluck a pheasant. The boys also have a hard time having to run backwards and forwards to a hunting party with food, including a jelly that refuses to lie down.
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[@BlaBla-pf8mf]

The actress playing the lady of the house is amazing. The look of quiet fury on her face when the tea party was "ruined" deserves an award.

[@juliajs1752]

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.

[@ingeleonora-denouden6222]

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

[@OstblockLatina]

Haha, exactly the thought I had xD

[@MT-cn1nh]

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

[@FireFr0ggy]

@@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.

[@Shelbkip]

Kind of sad that Time Crashers is only one season. I would have loved more of it. This is such a good show!!!

[@rayskitten78]

If you like this look up 24 hours in the past

[@violetuniverse42]

Also you can take a look at turn back time series

[@sendieloo]

@@rayskitten78 very good series!

[@sendieloo]

Agreed! We want MORE please! 🤴🏽👸🏻🍻🏹⚔️🗝

[@oliduwhite9388]

Try the family, also on absolute history

[@spookayitsme]

Practicing the art of being invisible to the Edwardian English seems to be exactly the same concept as playing peekaboo with a 1 year old, the whole "if I'm not looking at you then you have disappeared"

[@sarahrickman6609]

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

[@kaitoffelkopf]

Them balancing the jelly cake had me weak! Mission impossible, indeed.

[@sarah3796]

the giggling hehehe

[@ingeleonora-denouden6222]

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

[@kaitoffelkopf]

@@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.

[@lilymarinovic1644]

@@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....

[@myladyswardrobe]

@@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!

[@wallflower1852]

When people say they want to go back in time. They mean: I want to go back in time as a master, not a slave. ;) Frankly, UK has the best TV shows on earth.

[@lilymarinovic1644]

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

[@wallflower1852]

@@lilymarinovic1644 Highly agreeable. Miserable but rich.

[@lilymarinovic1644]

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

[@blairturner139]

In terms of period pieces 100% agreed

[@moogiealways3016]

Exactly

[@mp00507]

it's kinda ironic they don't realize that they themselves are the modern equivalent to ladies and lords, being served to their every whim. Their assistants, chefs, and dog walkers are literally invisible to them as would footmen and maids etc.

[@penelop_e]

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

[@spaceman081447]

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

[@krdiaz8026]

Even if that is true, modern labor laws make being a modern servant a good enough job especially if you have a good employer. And if you happen to be serving a diva type, you can always quit. These Edwardian servants have fewer options for other kinds of employment, longer hours and lower pay.

[@amyg9518]

Keith did a marvelous job playing the valet. Adapted so quickly when he heard the master of the house talking disparagingly about Emily Davison. I also loved Fern's insight about the war.

[@jamesbishop5119]

I love this show! Really wish Zoe would try a bit harder she really let's everyone else down...

[@misszombiequeen]

She didn't do shit the entire series

[@Bunnyhopper1970]

Yes she was annoying and lazy

[@nikiTricoteuse]

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.

[@HallsofAsgard96]

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

[@nikiTricoteuse]

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

[@victoriahill7857]

Such hard work for little in return. But to just survive in a bubble to live for people that didn't even acknowledge them. How sad. Thank you for the history lesson in how to appreciate what I have now.

[@rabbitramen]

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

[@DraperStan23]

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

[@seeleunit2000]

​@@rabbitramenPretty much. The help weren't considered people by their employers

[@stephanielynn608]

It's so evident that Kirstie Alley is a resourceful, humble, hard working person who did not grow up with a silver spoon. Watching her juxtaposed against spoiled little Zoe is quite interesting! Loving this show!

[@CH-xq6if]

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

[@nationalskyline]

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

[@norainnoflowers1551]

Not sure what it is exactly but Zoe’s affect throughout the show is so dismal and resigned it just aggravates me to see how easily she gives up when everyone else works so hard for such little in return. not even being acknowledge by the people they work for.

[@jenniferlawrence9473]

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.

[@loobylooroden6176]

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

[@mukkaar]

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

[@jen6879]

@@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.

[@achievementrum7568]

I teared up when Greg did, the emotions he felt were so touching.

[@RedNymph234]

The lady of the house really has that stern, strong nose and profile for the role. Absolutely intimidating

[@auraberglund4231]

I think Zoey behaved immature and with no respect for the generations passed that actually had to do all the things she takes as a joke. If you sign up for this show then you know what's ahead of you. If your not ready to show respect to history and people why sign up?

[@itsnats8007]

exactly

[@kaycollarfeild]

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.

[@sarahrickman6609]

My thoughts exactly.

[@stephanieoliver8634]

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.

[@shivadizayin]

@@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.

[@LuzMaria95]

R.I.P. Kirstie 🙏🏽

[@johnhenderson131]

I now have a better understanding of why so many young men were eager to enlist in the British Army and embrace the exciting adventure of the First World War! Great and interesting series, I wish more episodes had been made. So sad that Kirstie Alley has past away. 17:44

[@WhatALoadOfTosca]

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.

[@rabbitramen]

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.

[@rabbitramen]

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.

[@johnhenderson131]

@@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.

[@nighthunter3039]

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

[@maryjane9807]

"It was the wibbly-ist jelly I've ever seen in my life!" Oh my god I am CACKLING

[@LauraTeAhoWhite]

Mrs. McMullen is back with a vengeance, we need a tag time with her and Mrs. Crocombe

[@sarah3796]

41:03 "I think they've gone a bit hysterical." cuts to two grown men giggling hehehehe

[@meganshort5550]

So glad that I was raised in an era where I was taught to treat our house keepers with love and respect!

[@baylorsailor]

"I don't want to out shine m'lady"... I love Kirstie Alley! Lol! PS- she is no longer a Scientologist for those who do not know. She fled the religion.

[@resnonverba137]

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

[@joshmofromkokomo]

She is still a Trumper.

[@baylorsailor]

I'm a "Trumper" ya nitwits lol!

[@baylorsailor]

@@resnonverba137 GOOD! 👏👏👏

[@baylorsailor]

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

[@theduchessofessex6418]

Zoe is determined to be a lady of the night in every time period.

[@dinglebarry528]

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

[@ashleelarsen5002]

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

[@pfft8858]

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.

[@ashleelarsen5002]

@@pfft8858 sorry?

[@MilkyWhite1]

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.

[@shadowsun5704]

I so badly want a behind the scenes! Or a quick from the perspective of the fancy people summery episode.

[@myladyswardrobe]

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.

[@blabla-rg7ky]

@@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 :(

[@jd-ku3iw]

I wish here in the states. We had this programming. Well done ✅

[@carolehankinson4969]

Hey j d - are you from the truth channel's? Got some pizza? 😂🍕, if you're not (but sure you are), we have the most brilliant punishment for AD ; a time capsule, he could whine all he wanted and he'd have no sub's to listen to his BS. 😂, if you're not the same j d just ignore me. 😂🤣😅, but hope you are. 💜💜💜💜

[@piercemccauley7079]

No one would do this in america that are actual celebrities

[@Kruhn]

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

[@frankieamsden7918]

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

[@MsKittyGirl2010]

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

[@ashshep1993]

Some of these people have never had a normal 9-5 job and it shows. Bosses rarely have good reasoning.

[@oncoucharrest5910]

When the boys were carrying that dessert I could not stop laughing!!

[@jw7903]

absolutely love this show. it explains a lot of unspoken rules I need to learn when I was a kid. the hierarchy inside a family is never changed.

[@Tasukihori]

RIP Kirstie Alley

[@audreyann1975]

I would love to experience this. Wonderful. I knew from the first episode of Downton Abbey that life in service was not as cozy as they depicted it on the program.

[@rhondabenedict5284]

RIP Kristie Alley ❤️

[@rianbeegles3349]

I just love the concept of this show, we need more history shows like it as I've learned so much so far. I can't wait to see the rest of this short series! :)

[@ingeleonora-denouden6222]

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

[@AnotherWittyUsername.]

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.

[@rianbeegles3349]

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

[@sarahrickman6609]

@@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.

[@MamaBethsWorld]

I don’t care what era she’s in, Kirsty Alley is absolutely beautiful!

[@kaylamarie1796]

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

[@hogwashmcturnip8930]

@@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

[@myladyswardrobe]

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.

[@jmdenison]

some of her best work!

[@OstblockLatina]

So the footman used to be chosen for his height and good looks, yet they cast the tallest and a fairly handsome guy (not to take anything from other men here) as a hall boy. Also they employ him to empty the chamber pots and carry water upstairs, which as a matter of fact wasn't a task of the hallboy, but of a youngest girl servant in the household (not the scullery made, that was yet another servant).

[@SweetTea-Stephens]

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

[@eringalin2075]

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

[@venus_envy]

@@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?

[@lilymarinovic1644]

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

[@blueberry3674]

@@venus_envy i noticed that too - seems unfair

[@aaronazagoth6373]

If Zoe is so determined to be a lady of the night they should make an episode about how truly terrible their lives were.

[@rabbitramen]

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.

[@Mel-jy4kc]

As a WOC Zoe should be ashamed of herself! Her ancestors did this work, and worse, for centuries as slaves. For her to react and give up like she did is a slap in the face to them.

[@widowrumstrypze9705]

THIS!!!

[@2rueLIFE]

I'm only three episodes into this playlist and as an American who is watching these shows for the first time and only getting to know these people for the first time, I absolutely LOVE Fern XD she is so sweet, chatty, and wonderful lol!

[@pokeydot1975]

You should watch the Robin Hood series!! The one with the Armstrong brothers in it. Keith Allen plays the evil sheriff and he's awesome!!!

[@MegCazalet]

RIP Kirstie Alley ❤️

[@amyruggles2147]

Why is Zoe even in this if she’s not going to try, they should know what they’re signing up for..

[@stephanieoliver8634]

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.

[@myladyswardrobe]

@@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! :-)

[@genmanion2389]

when i was young we had to ask "may i leave the table please?" and that was in the '70s

[@gingerhiser7312]

And?

[@letsdiscussitoversometea8479]

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.

[@Herezlulu]

One thing I've loved is the team work and effort from most of the members.

[@elinkadolezalu7331]

Gosh. I would have loved to take part in such project! Really experiencing a piece of history is so authentic compared to just reading about it. Why is Zoe there, her attitude is so immature. Expecially considering the fact that this isn't even for real.

[@yvettedesmarais8107]

I guess we know why the “servant class” stopped doing this work after the world wars. Prior to that the serf class left their lives when they had the chance.

[@purrdiggle1470]

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.

[@ikkelimburg3552]

@@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.

[@gray_mara]

​@@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?

[@madeleineprice3556]

9:53 that’s nicer than half the bedrooms and dorms I’ve ever had 🤣

[@gregoryholstein4224]

@Digby Dooright I like your user name. Cheers.

[@DerpoQwerto]

Y'all have no idea how hyped for this episode I have been.

[@Electronic424]

it's lit fam

[@sirvalhart7464]

REAL

[@BeckBeckGo]

Your username!

[@TheDramacist]

That jelly existed just to torment the boys

[@ingeleonora-denouden6222]

that was my thought too

[@seaschulainn]

I can't wait for the Georgian farm episode thanks for uploading these! We need more shows like this.

[@jmdenison]

the jello mold incident was absolutely hilarious. reminded me of the jello mold skit in faulty towers all over again!

[@recycledminis]

I really like this series. Zoe should have tried or at least have thought about what would be expected prior to signing up.

[@jlux4481]

The jelly part was hilarious. This is such a fun show

[@tweezerjam]

The slow demise of that jelly thing was amusing. What an impractical thing to carry such a distance. 😂

[@bilindalaw-morley161]

I do have some sympathy for Zoe’s squeamishness(not her attitude though). I’ve plucked chickens, as a child, among many, many food preparation tasks. However, I’ve always said if I think too hard about where my meat comes from, I’d be vegetarian! I was surprised to see the valet working the shooting party. I think he’d be more likely to be attending to his master’s clothes for the evening etc. Also, that’s a very low number of servants for such a house. They made a miserly display standing in line outside. I’d expect at least double that number

[@venus_envy]

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

[@nancytestani1470]

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

[@hideyourloveaway128]

Zooey is such a bratty baby. She clearly grew up pampered without chores and responsibilities. What spoiled child behavior!!

[@misszombiequeen]

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

[@nicole1800s]

I love this type of documentary!!! Keep them coming!!

[@sarah3796]

i think i have a crush on the red headed gentlemen

[@sarisari4521]

Oh, I love this kind of reality show! It's educating and fun! But, I'm not lying when I said it's painful to watch lol. That jelly scene is so hilarious and painful at the same time :"))) Urgh, she can't even pluck some feathers? Even tho she eats meat? It's too bad that people have a little knowledge about how their food come from. Maybe if you know more about it, you can appreciate your food more. I'm not even a servant and we are grateful we're not a poor family. But sometimes we raise our own food source like chicken etc, do something about it whenever we will cook it (like plucking the feather, etc). It's good to not always get processed food from the supermarket and has a fresh food instead. I guess not all people can do it...

[@qweadd6987]

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

[@avideostarworldwillemijn8066]

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

[@sarisari4521]

@@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.

[@hogwashmcturnip8930]

@@sarisari4521 Well said.

[@sarahrickman6609]

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%.

[@ash.lou613]

in a past life, he was a Valet to the man of the house. Like he just looks natural and acts like it. There is a tie there that his soul has done that job excellently at one point of its long life.

[@carolinpurayidom4570]

Maybe or it could be his life experiences

[@megvoss3329]

This series is fantastic. I laughed so hard with the dessert transportation.

[@tamaradavis6437]

"...Zoe's get up and go and has got up and gone." LOL

[@arctic3678]

Ms. Macmullan was in the "Turn Back Time:The Family" series

[@MissGladiolus]

This show needs more view ❤ I think they need to change the thumbnail. I didn't know what kind of video is it before I opened it. Because the thumbnail looks the same as other videos that just explaint about history, not experience it.

[@theghostinthemirror8158]

I feel for Zoe. Looking at a dead animal can be a shock to the system, but it does feel hypocritical knowing that she eats meat at home. This is where it comes from, love. And this time around she didn’t even have to cut it open.

[@ingeleonora-denouden6222]

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

[@jaimeunwin8278]

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

[@emilymcmahon2560]

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.

[@studiokohl1]

Zoe said she ate meat but couldnt pluck the bird....very hypocritical. Like the super rich she expects the meat to be cleaned and prepared. They really need things like this for inner-city kids so they know where their food comes from.

[@chim-chimney]

Zoe was incredibly frustrating to watch. She’s lucky those people in the past made such sacrifices for her life today. But Greg on the other hand was an inspiration! Overall, this was a humbling watch. I’m not only thankful for the time I live in, but I’m determined to work hard like Greg, and not give up with a whimper like Zoe.

[@shivadizayin]

I have to commend Zoe on her efforts in this episode. She absolutely mastered the art of being invisible.😂

[@Divinemessages69]

I had to rewatch that jelly 3 times, best laugh I've had in ages!! 🤣🤣🤣

[@Oscuros]

13:46, senior servants were served their food, like those were, the servants serving just ate scraps, but you might get promoted up to senior servant in time.

[@67pkmaniac]

They were basically wage slaves. I am so glad we have the workplace rights we do today. The individuals who protested these conditions suffered tremendously just because they wanted to be treated with basic human dignity and I think they need to be honor for their sacrifices. I am not blind to the fact that the idea of "knowing your place" was normal during these times so it makes those who stood up even more amazing because they broke free from the social conditioning or brainwashing of the society they were born into.

[@ashleelarsen5002]

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

[@Joyride37]

@@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

[@LauraTeAhoWhite]

We need a season 2 of this show

[@pappyreeves6988]

They were all brilliant ( except Zoe ) but I'm just wondering why Greg was the hall boy instead of the footman..he clearly seemed the tallest, and the most handsome 😉 IMO...

[@purrdiggle1470]

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.

[@purrdiggle1470]

What is that hallboy doing going to sleep? Doesn't he have boots to shine by morning?

[@jeywithane130]

NEVER have i been more TENSE than while watching the jelly at 39:30

[@BeckBeckGo]

I have a lot of weird food stuff. I couldn’t imagine having meals made such a big deal of and having people standing around watching you, hovering, and waiting to chew your food for you. I’d insist on taking every meal in my room.

[@stephanies9689]

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.

[@hogwashmcturnip8930]

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

[@user-gu9yq5sj7c]

@@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.

[@hogwashmcturnip8930]

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,.

[@ayendomingo9262]

They are awesome! But also lets acknowledge the wonderful actors ghat played their role so perfectly😆

[@shivadizayin]

Here here 👏🏽👏👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@juliemosz6647]

When the jelly broke I just couldn't - so funny literally crying here :D

[@purrdiggle1470]

Where was the cook? While head housekeeper was the highest ranking female staff member, few housekeepers of the time would have dared cross the cook.

[@myladyswardrobe]

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

[@purrdiggle1470]

@@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.

[@thezootopiahusky]

Miss patmore was too busy lol

[@tearsofawaterfall2656]

I get Zoe was being immature straight away but I understand why she was reluctant to work with dead animals too, but then she shouldn’t have done the show because in the past there was a lot of death and animals

[@azearaazymoto461]

This explains a lot. I never knew how servants were treated, I thought there was the occasional abuse and they were expected to conduct themselves well but nothing to this extent. Seeing how nobles every whim was always tended to with as a little as a word and sometimes not even that much, how the people who tended to their whims weren't given a single thought. It's no wonder they bred such attitudes. It's not that they're particularly cruel or evil, it's just what we would consider a kindness is a basic need to them.

[@juliajs1752]

My grandmother was a scullery maid before the start of the first world war, when she was about 10. She was beaten, hassled, worked 15, 18 hours every day, and no one thought anything about it. There were a dozen hopefuls for every single job opening and the girls were pretty much just used and thrown away the moment they stepped out of line even once. From what she told me, it was a very hard time for her.

[@amberkat8147]

Makes me wonder how they never had a French revolution there with guillotine and everything. Were the people of the time really so used to such terrible treatment, had their spirits truly been that broken?

[@azearaazymoto461]

@@amberkat8147 Apparently so

[@tamaracarter1836]

​@@amberkat8147 The reason why Britain never had a “second” full-scale Revolution, like France did in the late 18th century, was because: - The British Government, unlike the French Government of the 1780s, *never went bankrupt* and continued to become the richest in the world. Obviously economic hardship and Revolutions go hand-in-hand, but especially so in 18th century France where Nobility paid next to nothing in taxes and were effectively supported by French peasants (in comparison the British Aristocracy and upper-middle classes were heavily taxed). - The British Monarchy was/ is *constitutional* (thanks to the “Glorious Revolution” of 1688), meaning the King/ Queen did not possess “absolute” power (like King Louis XVI) but instead worked “alongside” the country’s constitutional government. Alternatively anyone who disagreed with the French King could be executed on the spot - no questions asked... basically showing an extreme unbalance of power (in Britain that was not the case). - The British Government and Monarch received a *huge amount of support* from the nation’s elite, King Louis XVI experienced the exact opposite and in fact many aristocratic families turned against him. This showed that the French King was no longer respected; severely weakening his authority over France. If you’re talking about ‘1913’ Britain specifically: - Again the country/ Empire was extremely rich, - The King had no real power and was simply symbolic (much less power than King George III for example), - People supported constitutional monarchy and the aristocracy, - Europe was a completely different world pre/ post war (therefore the majority of Europeans were used to the idea of service, strict hierarchy and lack of respect to those of the lower classes). Plus you know that it was a very similar story with the wealthy families of the US - how do you think their staff were treated?

[@myladyswardrobe]

@@amberkat8147 English Civil War. We did it then. The servant class in the Victorian and early 20th century were not treated in the same way as the French Citizens were by the elite in 18th century France. However bloody revolutions never work long term. Those who started that revolution, the leaders, found their necks under the guillotine blade when they simply stepped into the shoes of those they had executed.

[@WhateverNWhatNot]

Wow....really puts things into perspective today and what we should be grateful for. Cliche I know but wow. A simple pencil and paper to communicate with loved ones where as today its the push of a button.

[@patricialane4915]

They have to remember that they only do this for two days. I doubt if the Plebeians back then would have done it if they HAD A CHOICE. Even though they didn't exist to the "gentry" they served, anything would have been better than starvation. One must remember that in those days there were thousands of grindingly poor people who would do anything to keep body and soul together. Will it be like this again if the obscenely wealthy people who are trying to take over the world ever get in charge again??

[@pokeydot1975]

Ummmm... What kind of show did Zoe think she was going on??? 😂

[@janekiceniuk1578]

I've been a subscriber to the channel, but barely watched. Until a recent rainy day, I'm addicted.

[@TheAnnArnold]

Did i see kirstey alley? She’s from my hometown and a couple years older than me.

[@J.DeLaPoer]

Why Zoe signs up for this, knowing what sort of role she'll get, and then moans and complains and half-asses all her work, is beyond me. I'm sorry but _she has a terrible attitude and zero work ethic._ Everyone else at least tries things and puts some effort in; while she comes off as entitled and petulant. Obviously the job is low-end and subservient but that's the point here. I hope this was just how she was directed to act for this project, because if that's her genuine self, my god... One wonders then how she became anything but champion whiner.

[@widowrumstrypze9705]

It's like she hs no empathy for the people who would've otherwise had an even worse life if they'd lost that job!

[@blindedbliss]

26:30 - What a spoiled person. I've no respect for meat-eaters who can not handle preparing the animals. Either become a vegetarian or get on with it.

[@Melonlordrinrei]

I mean to be fair in previous episodes she fully admitted that she will have a panic attack even taking chicken breast from the plastic so I think it's safe to say it's more than being spoilt, and she has said she is considering vegetarianism so you can't fault it too much at least she knows that it's a serious concern.

[@elizabetha2601]

I miss these little history shows

[@merryt55]

Who are the supporting actors I wonder? They really don't break character

[@ShadowsOfMoonlight]

It sounds like they may not have put the ladies in well-fitted corsets, or perhaps their corsets were too heavily boned given their status as housemaids, there's no reason the corsets should be THAT hard to bend in or actually stabbing into their thighs. Corsets for housemaids especially would have likely been more lightly boned, and with whalebone, but also heavily corded, which would have offered support without that much restriction. For example (although it's a late Victorian example and not an Edwardian one) the "Pretty Housemaid" corset, which was a very famous corset style produced by the Symington corset company that was specifically made for people in domestic service, is heavily corded and otherwise boned in whalebone, which is very flexible and actually molds to the wearer with wear. It renders the whole thing a bit sensationalized.

[@01Mary02]

I'm pretty sure if I was a servant back then, I would have been shot.

[@meganshort5550]

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.

[@01Mary02]

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

[@atkkeqnfr]

Mrs. McMullen makes the return! YES!

[@Dani..663]

I would be sacked straight away Im too clumsy and laugh with my nerves

[@rachelg9873]

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

[@Dani..663]

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

[@carolehankinson4969]

@@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 😂🤣🐠🐠🐠😂🤣

[@tyrongkojy]

To be fair, in that time Zoey would have been acclimated more to "dirtier" things, and likely would have developed a resistance to such squeamishness.

[@resnonverba137]

Zoe

[@tyrongkojy]

@@resnonverba137 whatever

[@resnonverba137]

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

[@DarkLadyJade]

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

[@resnonverba137]

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

[@lindenpeters2601]

Either Zoe was just looking for an excuse to leave, or it was scripted in. She was so sullen it was maddening.

[@hogwashmcturnip8930]

Not so much Zoe as Zero. She did zilch

[@gregoryholstein4224]

@@hogwashmcturnip8930 Zoe was a pain in the butt. I like your user name. Cheers.

[@hogwashmcturnip8930]

@@gregoryholstein4224 Thank you!

[@user-gu9yq5sj7c]

I think Zoe was genuinely squeamish and surprised. Why would she sign up to be on the show only to leave? It's a little insulting to other people who wanted that slot but were denied.

[@AnotherWittyUsername.]

The start of WW1 ended this way of life. Women could go to work in factories for far better wages and with far more respectful treatment. Because other women were making such good wages, the women that were still working in service started to demand raises commensurate with the work they were doing and they either got it or they left and their position never got filled again. Only the very wealthiest could afford servants.

[@ZiggyWhiskerz]

I'm curious how they all acted behind the scenes when the cameras are off. Like the lady was bitchy here, but I'd like to know how she is irl.

[@myladyswardrobe]

We are lovely people and re-enactors in real life (as well as "normal" work). Some of what was done was deliberate for the filming and unlikely to have occurred in real life. We ladies did grumble a bit about silly things like ringing for a servant to pick up a handkerchief a few cm to ones side!!

[@crystalm2460]

@@myladyswardrobe you were on the show?

[@bunnycortland353]

@@myladyswardrobe what was the casting process like?

[@lynncherry3256]

Love this program it’s educational and very refreshing from our norm these days!

[@bickerie1]

Great show! Can't watch Downton Abbey without getting angry anymore.

[@rox7651]

Zoe, considering what she does, is always really not good at these jobs. Like in every episode. I mean, have some strength. Ironic, I know.

[@keanestar07]

The actor who played Sir Gerald is the policeman at Blists Hill Victorian Town. Lady Annabelle used to play the school teacher at Blists Hill.

[@Athlynne]

I really like the valet, he's getting on so well, just rolling with it.

[@AliciainTexas]

I love these shows ❤ Thank You!