If you like this, check out the BBC&#x27;s excellent series, Victorian Farm. In the show, a historian and two archaeologists live and work on a farm for a year, using only tools and techniques of the Victorian era. Experts in period crafts and trades visit the farm to demonstrate tasks like building barrels or creating lime mortar to use in the building of stone walls. Here is a farrier creating a horseshoe in minutes from a plain metal bar: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;-x1hP8zisUI" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;-x1hP8zisUI</a><p>Although the farm is the focus of the show, a good amount of time is given to domestic labor. I used to grumble when I had to do laundry, but now when trudging down to the basement, I can only think about how much of my day has been freed up by the washing machine.