Name: Ruth Goodman
Field: Historian
Productions:
Edwardian Farm

After Dinner Speaker

Biography: Ruth Goodman specializes in social and domestic history and its interpretation to the public. She enjoys working with an exciting and stimulating range of museums, academic institutions, historic houses, theatre and other media. Ruth has recently taken part in BBC Two’s Victorian Pharmacy, and Edwardian Farm represents Ruth’s third year of working with Alex and Peter on a historical farm.

Ruth Says: “'If variety is the spice of life, then Edwardian rural life has proved to be one heck of a curry. With early twentieth century economics forcing us, like it forced our ancestors, to diversify and the wonderful geography of the South West giving us moors, rivers, steep slopes and the coast to win our living from, our year on the Edwardian Farm has been packed full. Farming and market gardening have formed a core around which we have fished, gathered, mined, scrubbed, and eaten our way through life as it was lived a hundred years ago.”