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“Birkenhead Park was built to be large and to facilitate myriad strands of park life. There were wide, open spaces for sport, including a cricket ground; wilder areas of foliage and shrubbery for those who wanted a memory of their countryside childhoods; formal planting and bedding for flower lovers; a rockery; lakes with bridges and summerhouses; wide boulevards for promenading and narrow, winding paths for private walks and quiet moments of reflection. Birkenhead inspired the creation of a number of new parks across the country and beyond (it was a model for Central Park”
― Ruth Goodman, How to Be a Victorian: A Dawn-to-Dusk Guide to Victorian Life

“Throughout the period, indoor and outdoor temperatures in Victorian Britain were not so far apart. Most people, including the wealthy, lived in much colder rooms than we do now. The weight and fineness of a twentieth-century wool suit, which is lighter and less substantial, would have been considered suitable only for colonial service in the Victorian mind â€� something to be worn in the tropics. Which, when you consider that most of us now spend our days in offices and buildings heated to around 18â€�24ºC, is what we essentially use them for: we now have tropical temperatures in our daily lives. The Victorian office, however, was likely to be around 10ºC, if heated at all, in winter.”
― Ruth Goodman, How to Be a Victorian: A Dawn-to-Dusk Guide to Victorian Life

“Once the gathering had chosen and crowned a summer Lord of Misrule, or king of the revels, his group of retainers were appointed. They dressed in the brightest coats they could find:”
― Ruth Goodman, How To Be a Tudor: A Dawn-to-Dusk Guide to Tudor Life

“Next came the husbandmen,”
― Ruth Goodman, How To Be a Tudor: A Dawn-to-Dusk Guide to Tudor Life

“Neither train nor bus, at this point in time, was interested in carrying working-class passengers; theirs was a service for the wealthy or middle-class person; the timetables and routes were tailored to their specific needs. Trains and omnibuses alike were in the business of delivering gentlemen to the City of London and to the business and commercial districts of all of the major towns and cities in time for a ten o’clock start.”
― Ruth Goodman, How to Be a Victorian: A Dawn-to-Dusk Guide to Victorian Life

“great change in climate, he had”
― Ruth Goodman, How to Be a Victorian: A Dawn-to-Dusk Guide to Victorian Life

“In 1837, a 7 a.m. start at the mill had meant an 8 p.m. finish six days a week. From 1874 onwards, a mill worker could begin his shift at 7 a.m., as his father and grandfather had done, but finish at 6 p.m. from Monday to Friday and at 2 p.m. on a Saturday.”
― Ruth Goodman, How to Be a Victorian: A Dawn-to-Dusk Guide to Victorian Life

“When the Lord Keeper visited Ipswich in 1568, the town laid on a banquet (not a feast with meat and veg: the word ‘banquetâ€� in the Tudor period meant sweets, cakes, cheese, nuts and fruit with a glass or two of wine).”
― Ruth Goodman, How To Be a Tudor: A Dawn-to-Dusk Guide to Tudor Life

“set out to try and work it out for myself: hunting up period recipes and trying them out; learning to manage fires and skin rabbits; standing on one foot with a dance manual in one hand, trying to make sense of where my next move should”
― Ruth Goodman, How To Be a Tudor: A Dawn-to-Dusk Guide to Tudor Life

“Powdered cuttlefish was made from the hard plate inside the fish’s body, sometimes found washed up on beaches. It is perhaps best known in Britain today as a dietary additive for budgerigars.”
― Ruth Goodman, How to Be a Victorian: A Dawn-to-Dusk Guide to Victorian Life

“Children’s leisure had to fit around work and school. Visit any playground in Britain today, and you will witness Victorian games in action. Various forms of Tag, British Bulldog, Grandma’s Footsteps and What’s the Time, Mr Wolf? still form much of the charging about when children gather. Games of marbles can be found in quieter corners, Five Stones and Jacks are still popular, and many girls are still highly skilled with a skipping rope.”
― Ruth Goodman, How to Be a Victorian: A Dawn-to-Dusk Guide to Victorian Life

“I have had the pleasure â€� and it really has been a pleasure â€� to cook in a large number of both real surviving period ovens and historic reconstructions. The reconstructions have been invaluable for highlighting the technical aspects of the originals that might otherwise have gone unnoticed.”
― Ruth Goodman, How To Be a Tudor: A Dawn-to-Dusk Guide to Tudor Life

“The young swashbuckler about town, dressed in gaudy colours, his sword audibly swashing against the buckler (a small hand shield) suspended from his belt, could sport the most outrageous of codpieces with impunity.”
― Ruth Goodman, How To Be a Tudor: A Dawn-to-Dusk Guide to Tudor Life