lnside a Victorian school | Historian Ruth Goodman on lessons and discipline

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@SG-ve7zz Ай бұрын

Ruth needs her own youtube channel!!

@randydelaney7053 Ай бұрын

So does Alex and Peter.

@susannahleggatt939 Ай бұрын

Yep, totally agree.

@pamscruggs2660 Ай бұрын

Yes she does

@inr63 Ай бұрын

Hear, hear!

@Joanne-q9w Ай бұрын

She is excellent.

@JudahBenYisrael Ай бұрын

When you see a video of, Ruth Goodman, you STOP, watch & listen. Absolutely love her videos.

@frankm.2850 Ай бұрын

Ruth Goodman and Eleanor Janega should do a video together it’d be amazing

@historyextra Ай бұрын

We couldn't agree more, which is why we're so excited that she's currently leading our Victorian Academy course! You can hear more from her (and put your questions to her in a live Q&A) by joining up here: www.historyextra.com/academy/victorian-life/

@JudahBenYisrael Ай бұрын

@historyextra Awe thank you. I'll do that.

@JudahBenYisrael Ай бұрын

@@frankm.2850 I totally agree.

@susansouthern6704 Ай бұрын

Absolutely..I was going off to bed when I saw this and sat right down to watch her

@wumologia Ай бұрын

As a granddaughter of the woman who would only attend school every other day, because her and the sister who was her closest in age only had one pair of shoes between them...the subject of Ragged Schools touches my very soul.

@oonaghmarguerite6752 Ай бұрын

💜

@frogandspanner Ай бұрын

At my primary school there were kids who turned up without shoes; but they were eager to learn. Martin had a stick-on prosthetic ear; Tom had callipers; and many others had blue unction for lice. The diseases have gone as, unfortunately, has the eagerness to learn.

@jonehaney8939 Ай бұрын

@@frogandspannerwhat are callipers and blue unction?

@vladmars5297 Ай бұрын

My grandmother from Ukraine during the Soviet Union in the 50s also went to school in shifts because they had 1 pair of shoes for 4 children.

@anyaharris5617 Ай бұрын

@vladmars5297 I remember reading a Soviet writer Victor Astaphiev who went to a Soviet school in the 1950s and had lice and how girls in his class were shockingly appalled by this, whereas to him it was normal at the time. That's just shows how times have changed.

@queerukuleleplayer Ай бұрын

My great grandmother was a Pupil teacher, became a fully qualified teacher and lifted her family into the middle class. Because of her my father was able to get into Grammar School, University and become a teacher himself who chose to work with Children with disabilities, helped develop makaton and create a curriculum for special needs schools.

@InquirywithHelena Ай бұрын

A similar story to ours!

@ashledashnaw2575 Ай бұрын

Wow. That's way cool

@simsimmer Ай бұрын

Cool!

@vickyworth5839 21 күн бұрын

My son has severe autism and non verbal, do you know what curriculum he created? Id be very interested, i am looking for a curriculum with not much luck, thankyou xx

@jeannemillsom9300 12 күн бұрын

My grandfather (born in 1879), left school at 12, as his father died, and he had to provide for his mother and younger sister. He went to work on the railways at Shildon, cleaning the engines, a very dirty job. He decided to attend night school where he succeeded in obtaining sufficient qualifications to study for an English degree. At 23 he became the youngest headmaster in the country , teaching children at Swalwell school near Gateshead, children in those days only stayed at school until 14, unless they were suitable to go to a grammar school. He later became the deputy chief school inspector for county Durham. I remember him being a patient kind man, who helped me with my studies, I was fortunate to have had him for a grandfather.

@mrsstiffy3 Ай бұрын

Anything with Ruth Goodman is amazing. Her enthusiasm is heartwarming 💕

@bisibisbi 18 күн бұрын

Ruth has such a special gift of making history lively and easy to learn. Love her!

@angelicasmodel Ай бұрын

This is fascinating. I'd always thought Victorian classrooms sounded like a nightmare. But there was a logistical reason they were like that. What an achievement to go from 50% to 100% literacy in a couple of generations, especially when you consider that a big indicator of your educational achievement these days is how educated your parents were.

@anyaharris5617 Ай бұрын

I also thought that Victorians were rather rough and tough which of course they were, but how else could you control 400 kids in one room? Bearing in mind, that education had to be affordable, and you only could afford one teacher, so does it any wonder that they used rods?

@aminadoce Ай бұрын

Nowadays with 30 children in a class everything is unbearable, like, how teachers are even supposed to teach something when they can't have any authority? Things were rough, but it was for a very good reason...

@anyaharris5617 Ай бұрын

@@aminadoce I agree, but wait for the woke generation's response... lol 😆

@angelicasmodel Ай бұрын

@aminadoce nah, I'm glad we don't use corporal punishment in schools anymore.

@l-kin3480 Ай бұрын

@@anyaharris5617caning. Also, parents and teachers co-disciplined the children

@juliegale3863 Ай бұрын

In 1940 during WWII I was about 4nearly 5 and sent out of the bombing down to Devon. There I went to the local village school that looked just like the one in the video. I remember slates and chalk but we also had exercise books cut in half to save paper. We wrote in pencil so it could be rubbed out and the paper used again. The absolute last knockings of a Victorian school.

@jujutrini8412 Ай бұрын

British subjects still used slate and chalk in many of the colonies back then too.

@zappababe8577 Ай бұрын

Thank you so much for sharing your first-hand recollections of what it was like to actually live through that experience. Your testimony is very important and you should make a recording of it for the benefit of future generations. Please do this, all you would have to do is to speak into a recording app on any mobile phone and it will record your very important testimony for people in the future to hear and understand what it was actually like to experience being evacuated from your home and sent to stay with strangers. Ask a friend or family member to help you with this, it is important that other people know where you have saved your testimony to. All you need to do is to open any kind of recording application on a mobile phone and then speak into it so that your precious first-hand account is saved for posterity. Thanking you in anticipation of you doing this. Wishing you all the very best.

@ManachanJapan Ай бұрын

My mother was born in 1950, back then West-Germany, now Germany. She told me she was one of the last grades to start school with a slate. She used them in grade 1 and 2, from 3rd grade paper. If I remember correctly, 2 or 3 years after her they were abandoned completely. My sister was born in 1972 and she was one of the last grades to enter school after Easter, they changed it to summer a couple of years later. I was born in 1988 by the way :) When I entered school in 1994, we had to use pencil during the first two grades. In 3rd grade, class teachers would allow switching to ink depending on how well a student held the pencil and readability of the handwriting. From grade 4, pencil was no longer allowed except for geometry or art class.

@jaydenhalverson2410 Ай бұрын

so cool! You’ve witnessed so much history

@ajourney50 Ай бұрын

We had exercise books cut in half during the 1980s Canada. Old habits die hard.

@trishayable Ай бұрын

I can listen to Ruth talk all day.

@stevenshepard3495 Ай бұрын

Me too!!! I love her so much!

@historyextra Ай бұрын

We can't get enough of Ruth! You can hear more from her (and put your questions to her in a live Q&A!) by joining up for our Victorian Academy course, which she's leading: www.historyextra.com/academy/victorian-life/

@amandamorton-king2112 Ай бұрын

Love love love this woman. For goodness sake give her another series on main stream television so more people can learn in a fascinating way.

@SG-ve7zz Ай бұрын

She is not a freak that's why they wont give her her own series lol!!

@theclumsyprepper Ай бұрын

@@SG-ve7zz Well said. I can't see her pandering to certain demographics in order to keep the job.

@theclumsyprepper Ай бұрын

She was on mainstream tv for years.

@mickwillis6981 Ай бұрын

She has had at least 6 series on TV. All for the BBC. You don’t get much more mainstream than that.

@DC-wt2vi Ай бұрын

But Ruth is a legend on mainstream telly. Be brave, and look for her on history slots on the BBC 😉😊

@mariejoyce5150 Ай бұрын

Ruth Goodman is probably the best social historian there is. Had she been teaching my history class when I was at school I’d have paid far more attention.

@gothicallyyoursprofessorm.7222 20 күн бұрын

This is my second time watching Ruth Goodman discuss Victorian history. I absolutely love how she captivates you with her easy-to-understand and fascinating lectures. Her explanations are on point, and from start to finish, viewers gain a comprehensive understanding of the history lesson. It's clear that she is brilliant and passionate about sharing knowledge. I really enjoyed seeing the period photos interspersed with her commentary-they made the program enjoyable from start to finish.

@Lynda-s5b 23 күн бұрын

I love the “what you see is what you get” with Ruth, she is not the least bit vain not dressing up or putting makeup on

@mskleftwich Ай бұрын

I just love how Ruth transports me as a viewer.

@lolathesinger8192 Ай бұрын

I‘m a teacher myself and I love Ruth Goodman. This is so fascinating! 400 kids in one room, my god.

@SarahlabyrinthLHC Ай бұрын

Children in France still use slates today. I had one when I was learning my letters. I still have one now, for sentimental reasons. I have an exercise book belonging to a French child from around 1905 and the calligraphy is absolutely perfect, all done with a dip pen, of course! Elderly people here have told me how their grandparents in this rural area couldn't read or write in the 1800s and if they received a letter or had to fill in official paperwork the postman would take the time out of his rounds to read or write for them.

@lilyflower50099 Ай бұрын

i went to school in onatrio canada and we were given individual whiteboards & a marker . same concept !!

@SarahlabyrinthLHC Ай бұрын

@@lilyflower50099 Yes, indeed.

@sayakota3054 20 күн бұрын

Yes, school in France in the 50s and 60s wasn't too different from that, they would also use dipping pens and the inkwells were still the same! in my elementary school in the early 2000s we still had older desks with the inkwell hole and the dent to rest your pen as well.

@SarahlabyrinthLHC 20 күн бұрын

@sayakota3054 Yes, my schools in the 1970s still had the inkwell hole and dent for the pen.

@jakesmith9924 Ай бұрын

I could listen to Ruth Goodman all day!

@historyextra Ай бұрын

@terenceretter5049 Ай бұрын

Certainly she has the enthusiasm for her subject- not too keen on her continued use of 'kids' for 'children' though! --- put that down to my education both at school and in family life in the 40's and 50's I suppose!!

@vanessasimmons1175 Ай бұрын

I was a school monitor in our village school over 50 years ago! In fact our classroom was not unlike the one here.

@anyaharris5617 Ай бұрын

Wow!

@mjspice100 Ай бұрын

In the Victorian style? You’re talking late 1960s/early 1970s. I was at junior school at that time, children with little jobs in class were called monitors, milk monitor, ink monitor but there was nothing like the Victorian system, we certainly weren’t sitting in a class of 300 😂

@zappababe8577 Ай бұрын

5:20 I love how those who were on the very bottom rung of society's ladder had learned the value of education in order to better their circumstances in life, and that is what motivated them to help others who were also on the very bottom rung of society's ladder. That strong impulse to help others came directly from the heart, and I greatly admire them for putting it into motion.

@gonnabeayogi1445 Ай бұрын

Ah Ruth. Wonderful. No matter what era she presents she somehow looks so at home and brings our past back to life ❤

@davidsanderson4442 Ай бұрын

Anything with Ruth Goodman presenting is guaranteed to be good!

@katietheshakespearelady Ай бұрын

WE NEED MORE RUTH GOODMAN!

@historyextra Ай бұрын

More Ruth Goodman you say? We're here to help! You can hear more from Ruth (and put your questions to her in a live Q&A!) by joining up for our Victorian Academy course, which she's leading: www.historyextra.com/academy/victorian-life/

@paco7992 Ай бұрын

This beautiful spirit is a national treasure. She dances to her own drum, but a smart person would sit down and listen. She is your embassador of history and culture.

@AdDewaard-hu3xk Ай бұрын

Former teacher here. Amazing that in my years I felt hard done by for having classes of 30.

@RuthlessPope Ай бұрын

Ruth Goodman is the absolute queen of unintentional ASMR, and I’m here for it!

@onlinemusiclessonsadamphil4677 Ай бұрын

I think what is also interesting is the diversity of some families in that period. Some of my family were from the east end of Glasgow, worked in the railways at the turn of the century yet in that same family, a cousin was the first female Dr in Glasgow.

@Essbiie Ай бұрын

Every time I’m feeling down I watch Ruth. So much positivity. Her energy is top notch

@ninaleach6350 Ай бұрын

As an elective home educator, I can confirm that school is and never was compulsory, in the UK ,it was just education that was. Obviously, most people chose to delegate this responsibility to schools but you could educate "otherwise" which meant as long as a child was receiving an education, they didn't need to attend school. Some children were unable to receive an education for various reasons including disability and chronic illness and some were considered unable to be educated, often because of intellectual disability but sometimes because they were deaf or blind for example. Some children stayed at home to look after family members and/or do housework.......others went to work to support the family......some authorities turned a blind eye. Although the purpose of schools was to educate, it was also to accommodate and get children off the streets when parents were at work. They were often left out in all weathers and many were the victims of crime or criminals themselves. The industrial revolution was the catalyst for compulsory education.

@bigbucketlist Ай бұрын

The Ruth Goodman! Instant klick, always a delight!

@hann-pro Ай бұрын

Thank you for the information 😊 Greetings from Ukraine:) My grandmother grew up in the village in soviet union, she was the first one of her family to attend a university. Her uncle helped her move because her dad had to give up his primary school education for the uncle, so her dad remained a peasant while her uncle got a good job in the city. That is a difference education can make.

@fiercequaker5828 Ай бұрын

We love you Ruth. The Edwardian Farm is our favorite.

@AliceEade-st2yc Ай бұрын

The Victorian farm was great too, not only was Ruth great but Alex and Peter were as well 😊

@HappyBerryCrochet Ай бұрын

I remember in my old school back in only the 80s we had desks that had ink well holes, obviously the ink long gone but i loved thinking about how old those desks were and who may have used them at one time!

@skwerlz4us Ай бұрын

Yes, in the mid-80s, there were 1-2 of those in my school too. I really don't know how they got there because the schools in my town were built in the 1950s. Before that, there had been 8 one-room schoolhouses sprinkled around town from the early 1800s, so it's possible a few desks had survived from one of those.

@missanne2908 17 күн бұрын

I went to grade school in California in the 60s and the desks for the fifth graders had inkwells. The other grades had more modern desks.

@jude175 Ай бұрын

Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftsbury (1801 - 1885), advocated for animal welfare and was president of the Victoria Street Society for the Protection of Animals from Vivisection. He was also a vice-president of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. He argued for total abolition of vivisection, not reform. In 1879, he delivered a speech condemning the practice of vivisection and questioned why vivisectionists were subjecting "God's creatures to such unspeakable sufferings?"

@picassotamarin Ай бұрын

So ahead of his time and even still as this still goes on

@alexandraskau5826 Ай бұрын

Wow! Why would they do vivisections at all? Isn’t dissection enough?

@dianehess3706 Ай бұрын

I love Ruth Goodman. She really transports to back in time giving you a look at what the time and people were like.

@historyextra Ай бұрын

@zirconia25UK Ай бұрын

My grandfather and his younger siblings went to school in the 1880s, for 1d a week each, but their older siblings never learnt to read and write. 4d or 5d a week was a significant sum, but people were proud to pay it because they could see the benefits.

@ingrids.3437 Ай бұрын

I could listen to her talk all day! She has a way of explaining things that just completely captivates you. I wish my own history teachers had been even half as passionate about the lectures they gave us.

@Christineakaminniewinnie 23 күн бұрын

Talk about some one who doesn’t need a script….this is ur lady !

@melaniejones7335 Ай бұрын

Ruth has such a calm voice, I like to watch her before I go to bed to relax.😊

@adem6371 Ай бұрын

‘Imagine being the first in your family to read or write’- I have some insight to this as social worker in a senior secondary school for refugees in an English speaking country (Australia)- many of whom are pre literate. It’s life changing- with English language skills they can assimilate into society better, which is huge, and would take too long to describe here. With English literacy skills, well, they have so many more choices and opportunities. I like how Ruth says that families ‘generally’ were supportive and motivated for their children to have an education- my students families are as well, but for some, they are so vulnerable and their cultural differences too big to overcome- they want their daughters to work and care for family, education is too much for them to think about. I imagine this was the same for British families in Victorian times too.

@LynxChan Ай бұрын

I love the use of pre-literate instead of "illiterate", which I've never seen before. Completely changes the tone from "can't read or write" to "can't read or write YET" 😊

@adem6371 Ай бұрын

@ - love you’re comment- yes! I think strengths based language is so so important, especially for vulnerable people. ❤️

@vladmars5297 Ай бұрын

Ruth Goodman the best historian of our time! 👏👏👏

@historyextra Ай бұрын

We love Ruth! You can hear more from her (and put your questions to her in a live Q&A!) by joining up for our Victorian Academy course, which she's leading: www.historyextra.com/academy/victorian-life/

@fantasticfraggle Ай бұрын

I love Ruth Goodman's history lessons. So passionate about what she's explaining and engaging... Thank you Ruth!

@historyextra Ай бұрын

@G.L.McCarthy-vr1oe Ай бұрын

In rural America there were one room school every mile or so. I had an old man tell me years ago, that when he started in a one room school (about 1890-95) that every time he picked up the pen or pencil with his left hand the teacher hit him across the knuckles with a ruler, hard enough to leave a mark at times. He said he finally quit trying to write left handed. A different world.

@GS-dc4dt Ай бұрын

My mum, born 1933, had her left hand tied behind her back at school. This in Plymouth UK in quite a big primary school, it had a boys entrance and a girls entrance!

@G.L.McCarthy-vr1oe Ай бұрын

Thankfully these things have changed!

@Copeandseethe822 Ай бұрын

Definitely wasn't every mile or so. It wasn't uncommon for children to have to walk several miles to get to school.

@Copeandseethe822 Ай бұрын

You're dead right about them beating lefties though. My grandma was a leftie. Born in 1950. Lived in the city. The nuns beat her senseless for using her left hand. Eventually she was able to train herself to use her right. It's because the church associates left handedness with being evil. Silly superstitious fools. Now two of my sons are lefties and I think about that a lot. People really don't know what they're talking about when they say "the good ole days."

@alexandraskau5826 Ай бұрын

My grandfather went to Catholic school in the US, 1930s-4Os. The story is the nuns hit his left hand with rulers so much that he developed arthritis there first and always had terrible handwriting

@Haffmatthew Ай бұрын

I’m so happy to see more and more of Ruth nowadays! She’s a gem, she has such passion for her historical insight and I love soaking it all up!

@wendyjones3586 Ай бұрын

Ruth is by far my favorite Historian . Bar none .. What a treat to have her as a teacher . I love domestic history .

@MartinsGraveyard Ай бұрын

I could listen to that wonderful woman all day, everyday. God, I'm so glad I learned English.

@babciamira9556 Ай бұрын

Ruth, your voice and way of speaking is almost hypnotic. One cant stop to listen to you. Why you do not have your own channel?

@historyextra Ай бұрын

you can hear even more from Ruth in the HistoryExtra Academy! This is an extract from the course we're currently running on Victorian Life, led by Ruth: www.historyextra.com/academy/

@gregorydaines Ай бұрын

Ruth is why I subscribed to this channel.

@historyextra Ай бұрын

We're happy to have you here!

@missteeny1638 Ай бұрын

Teaching letters with sand is actually a great, economical way to do it.

@LadyLynne Ай бұрын

I started school in 1949, being a war baby most of my primary class size was 40+ each year. First year High school my class was taught by Mrs Tungate, and the class of 60 was split into two sections, 1T and 2T, the other 5 classes of first year the same. I cannot imagine 300 children at the same time.

@zappababe8577 Ай бұрын

11:40 Some people at the top didn't like their staff to be able to read and write. When employing people to work for the aristocracy, they would reject applicants for being literate because they wanted to be sure that no-one could read their correspondence and discover their secrets. They were also worried that literate people would be discontented when doing hard manual labour and so they might rise up and rebel against their masters, as they had done in the French Revolts when so many people of noble birth ended up decapitated.

@griffs3283 Ай бұрын

That depends. As work becomes more "advanced" you NEED your employees to be able to read simple sentences and follow instructions so they don't blow anything up. They absolutely did not want intelligent employees, but the world after the steam engine needs readers. It needs people capable of sitting in silence for more than eight hours - a skill so kindly taught in schools. It needs people that follow rules. At the end of the day, reading is just a small part of the skills taught in a school. Nobody walked out of there knowing latin, but they knew how to sign a contract and get to work in time.

@a24-45 Ай бұрын

What I notice is how much of this was familiar to me, from my education in a standard public school in Australia. I started school at age 5 in 1958, in buildings designed in the 1890s. We had bench seats and desks bolted to the floor as shown in the video, and I learned to write using a wooden pen with metal nib and plastic inkwells which sat in holes in the desk, also as shown. No lights were used during the day time - just the daylight from the windows (that's why they were so tall)-- and no aircon. Class sizes were huge by todays standards, averaging around 40 kids. And yes we got smacked over the knuckles with a ruler, or behind the bare knees, or sent to the headmaster's office for caning, depending on the severity of our offence. . I guess the infrastructure of these schools has proved too expensive to upgrade by the 1950s, even though it was outdated. Desks and so forth were quality iron and steel and built to last, despite being abused, stood on and gouged by children, year in and year out. I remember that the desks used to be given a coat of thick toffee-coloured varnish once a year while the school was closed for the holidays. That annual coat of lacquer may have been what kept this furniture in service. At any rate, with the desk/seat combos bolted to the wooden floor, it would have damaged the floor to have to remove even one of them.

@danielroy5358 Ай бұрын

Ruth is a brilliant communicator. I was thrilled to see a new video.

@historyextra Ай бұрын

@Dogwalkingmom22 Ай бұрын

Yeah I want more Ruth Goodman!!!! Bravo! I wish she would start her own channel for new projects and discuss the projects and shows she has done over the last 15-20 years! More Ruth! Brilliant!

@katiefountain2407 Ай бұрын

Crying tears of joy at 4:10 for the poor kids who got to go to school! That got to me...

@janetnz3389 Ай бұрын

Cannot believe how much this reminded me of my primary school in 1960s. A CP (Christian Primary) school. Started with slates, had white China inkwells and dip pens before moving to fountain pens. Single stove between two classrooms, only lit from October regardless of weather. Telephone in a wall hung box in the corner , where hand bell was also stored.

@ADEN1961 Ай бұрын

Church of England school we used a slate at first then pencil but no ink until you were 10 years old if you made a mistake you crossed through and rewrote next to it, this was 1967 you did not talk until the Teacher asked . One just waited with hand up until she saw you . and no clicking of fingers . The head mitsress retired and the school changed over night .

@marizakowska7933 Ай бұрын

Ruth Goodman got me listening with my mouth wide open. This is my favourite series ever

@jmarshal 10 күн бұрын

Having older children help teach the younger ones could still be put to good use today, both giving a helping hand to kids who are struggling, but offering opportunities for development for older students who want to go into teaching or education.

@Maia_BG Ай бұрын

It feels as if she was alive during Victorian times and has lived to tell us how it was then from her own experience. Very immersive because she speaks with emotion and passion.

@stephenguppy7882 Ай бұрын

I watch everything Ruth does. I adore her!

@SG-ve7zz Ай бұрын

Love these episodes!!!

@TheKoolbraider Ай бұрын

My dad attended a one room school house around the '30s in Northern Maine. But there were not many children to make things crowded. And I'd listen to Ruth any day of the week!

@scotty503 Ай бұрын

my school in the 1950s and 60s looked just like that. inkwells and dip pens. The cane, ink monitors, coal monitors for the cast iron stoves, milk monitors, bare floor boards and more.

@Barneysma Ай бұрын

Yes, the village school I attended in Wiltshire in the 60’s was just as you describe. Plus outside bucket toilets and Izal paper. I remember playing at sliding down the coke pile and being severely admonished 😂. We also went for nature walks around the village on nice sunny days.

@Scriptorsilentum Ай бұрын

And they worked. 😉

@Moonpile Ай бұрын

This was a gripping delivery that really brought the system to life in my mind. "The past is a foreign country" and Ms Goodman has been the most excellent tour guide, and given us a chance to put ourselves in the place of the pupils, the teachers, the assistants, the parents, and the philanthropists who were part of this movement that profoundly altered the world. Thank you.

@brianschmidt9919 Ай бұрын

i enjoy the way ruth presents info and the way she treats the past with respect

@jacquelineheronwray6782 Ай бұрын

Captivating and engaging. Go Ruth!

@DaisyDutches Ай бұрын

I could listen to this delightful woman teach all day! ❤

@cindym4946 Ай бұрын

Oh Ruth, thank you so much for this! You bring the past alive.

@historyextra Ай бұрын

@user-vf3zi6we3g 29 күн бұрын

My mum was a pupil teacher here in NZ. She got a scholarship for a years high-school education and afterwards was asked to stay on to teach the infants. She wanted to go on and train as a teacher but her parents wouldn't let her. My grandmother got her a job as a house keeper and nanny for a doctors family. After 5 years she left to work in a factory. Very narrow and short sighted people. My mum always had regrets about it.

@kmbarnett1200 Ай бұрын

My great grandmother taught school in Kansas in 1901, A literal one room school house

@3lli0 Ай бұрын

I could watch Ruth Goodman for hours

@historyextra Ай бұрын

We can't get enough of Ruth either! You can hear more from her (and put your questions to her in a live Q&A!) by joining up for our Victorian Academy course, which she's leading: www.historyextra.com/academy/victorian-life/

@MLeeK365 25 күн бұрын

Sand in a tray-the very first etch-A-sketch amazing!

@historyextra 25 күн бұрын

Hours of fun to be had with just a tray, some sand and your imagination!

@charlisays Ай бұрын

Ruth we just love watching you present historical topics. My partner is greek and fascinated with English history because of you ❤

@BillKing8888 25 күн бұрын

I love the way Ruth can tell us about history without preachy little lectures about oppressors and oppressed. She definitely needs her own KZbin channel. She might become a star!

@Maggie-rr8gi 16 күн бұрын

I love listening Ruth. She explains why I was lucky enough to get a free good education in the 50s and 60s. There were inkwell holes in some of the desks in the 50s. Thank goodness pens with tubes of ink came out when I was in 4th grade. One of my friends had violet ink and we were so jealous😂

@assajventress3204 Ай бұрын

Absolutely LOVE this little series with ruth. She is such a fantastic historical communicator, she has an ability to make her enthusiasm for history infectious. I love it. Will defimately be hanging out to see the next episodes!

@divaden47 Ай бұрын

I started school in 1955. We had dip-pens and ink to use. I was very proud to be the ink monitor! When I think back to those years, it seems like yesterday!

@TheFleetflyer Ай бұрын

Ruth is amazing. It would be a real privilege to meet her in real life. Her passion for history and knowledge is inspirational. And she’s clearly flat out good fun. My ideal evening would be her, an old pub, and a couple of ceilidh band reprobates to listen to while you chat over a pint of porter. You’re brilliant Ruth, never change.

@historyextra Ай бұрын

@@TheFleetflyer what a night that would be! Ruth is doing a live Q&A as part of our HistoryExtra Academy, which this video is an extract from 🙂 You can see more at HistoryExtra.com (BYO porter though we’re afraid!)

@loreta261 Ай бұрын

Ruth is amazing! Her documentaries are always so interesting

@historyextra Ай бұрын

@Weeflowerofscotland Ай бұрын

I was born in 1975 and started school in 1980. I still remember using a small chalkboard and chalk when I was learning to write. Fascinating stuff .

@christinegiroux8471 Ай бұрын

She is amazing! Look forward to lots of lectures from her. Fascinating stuff.

@historyextra Ай бұрын

Make sure you don't miss any Ruth by signing up for the Victorian Academy course, which she's leading: www.historyextra.com/academy/victorian-life/

@Mrsadams1 Ай бұрын

I would love a collaboration with Ruth Goodman and Nicola Parkman (Hands across the Sea Samplers) about school needlework samplers. 🙏

@anitacarriere9132 Ай бұрын

ruth is so good at explaining history

@authormichellefranklin Ай бұрын

I once again see Ruth Goodman, I once again click like.

@historyextra Ай бұрын

We once again appreciate it 🤝

@anyaharris5617 Ай бұрын

It was indeed a revolutionary idea to make education cheap enough for the masses. Bravo, Lancaster!

@marvwatkins7029 Ай бұрын

We had inkwells (long since unused) in our desks as late as the sixties.

@WeeScottishLass39 Ай бұрын

My dad born 1907 went to the Ragged School at Toll Cross in Edinburgh. He was a great reader all his life. Migrated to Australia in 1949. Val Australia.

@Littlebluebirdie1 Ай бұрын

Ruth is fantastic, I watched her program Victorian farm years ago and loved it. This is a great series, I hope they have many more videos planned.

@perunarieska9182 Ай бұрын

This only needs a better sound recorder on set, and it's perfect! Ruth has such charisma on screen as a storyteller, and her passion for the topic really comes through

@sunnyruskin5 Ай бұрын

i adore this type of information, i wish it was longer. Dr. Goodman is an amazing and articulate educator!

@valerie8566 Ай бұрын

The first Etch-A-Sketch! 😃😄 7:44

@anyaharris5617 Ай бұрын

It's not just the stories I like, but also the presenter. Ruth has an appealing personality.

@carolgivati7372 Ай бұрын

It really is a good reminder to so many that it wasn't that long ago when schooling was neither free nor compulsory. Society today takes so much for granted as if everything is by right but it wasn't always so. Those early teachers and their supporters deserve all the credit for helping to propel the world into the 20th century and beyond! Education is the way to develop a society. Queen Victoria also played a part, as an educated woman.

@mlisaj1111 Ай бұрын

For much of the world…it still is that way: where schools must be paid for, aren’t compulsory, and even if only a low cost, it’s often too high for the poorest families, some of which can’t even afford the most basic supplies or a cheap school uniform… without which the child is turned away. And there is a whole YT series’s on the most extreme ways kids get to school across the globe, some going alone or in groups thru hours long walks thru jungles, frozen tundra, across rivers, home-made zip lines across gorges, just to get there. For some it’s so long they just stay the week there and sleep on the school floor, and come back for weekends and summers.

@choppersworld5094 Ай бұрын

Saddest part was when students with learning disabilities like dyslexia would have been punished for something beyond there control and told they were lazy and wasting everyone’s time.

@karahershey Ай бұрын

Yes I had a learning disability and ADHD I would have been punished

@bex438 Ай бұрын

Ruth you're brilliant! I've listened to one of your audible books this week already, have just started another & paused it to watch this & I'm already looking forward to the next episode 😊

@trace567 Ай бұрын

I am just going to go look for those audible books, I hadn't thought to before, I like the way she comes across and her voice is very easy on my ears. Hadn't seen any of her tv stuff for years and only came across her here few days ago.

@rebeccasaunders2657 Ай бұрын

@@trace567I hadn't even heard of Ruth until a couple of weeks ago & now I just love watching & listening to her, she's informative, funny & just a little bit naughty which is a great combination 😊