What Life Was Like During The Interwar Years | Turn Back Time: The Family | Absolute History

In this episode, the families are put through the mill as they experience family life during the Interwar years. They experience the highs of the "roaring twenties", followed by the lows of the Great Depression and its catastrophic effect on British economy.

[blossom]

I'm really impressed by how mature Saskia is! She's not even mean to her sister, she's encouraging and hard working :) Seriously proud of her

[Bamboule]

Apart from the very interesting content of the series, I'm blown away by the interior design of the houses. It's fantastic. Every detail is spot on.

[histnut]

Its fantastic to see that the teen girls are willing to try living like their ancestors did. So rare today. Most teens would have refused to be away from their phones or other benefits of these days. It says a LOT about the parents and how the girls were raised. Same with the youngsters of the other family. Love the show

[jeanross]

I wonder can anybody obtain census documents and are they free?

[-kattya-]

Genevieve couldn't care less about the whole experience, which is quite a once in a lifetime thing, I would love to be part of it. so seeing her with this attitude is just annoying

[SarahGreen]

I am still super impressed with the attitude of the Meadows family. I like that they are following their ancestors socioeconomic footsteps. The struggle of the family line shows up in the character of each of them. They're learning a lot right along with the audience and I love it.

[JG-tdqw]

props to the interior designers and production team for reenacting realistic homes, loving it!

[beevang]

The despair in Mr. Meadows face when he got fired and when he had to apply for welfare is so real. This experiment really tested their family and they really pulled through as a team unit.

[lisapop]

I can't imagine how revolutionary it was going from hand washing, open fire cooking or even carpet cleaning was even with these rudimentary machines. It must have been mind blowing.
My great grandmother had a crank washer until she grew too old to use it. Her thought was it still works, why replace it. She was born in 1917 on a farm and didn't get it until the early 40s. She kept that thing until I was was a teenager in the early 90s lol! She never bought a dryer though.

[janibii_]

Its kind of wholesome how happy the Meadows are to have two bedrooms. Theyve humbled so much since the first episode

[jessa]

"The interWHAT years???" -People immediately after WWI

[thisisyang]

Absolute History has been a great companion especially with the seemingly never ending community lock down.

[randomkidz]

The Taylor father missing his wife and kids.. broke my heart

[terrylynn]

During the Great Depression my gr grandpa didnt work for a decade it was my gr grandma who held the family together with her seamstress work.

[bethkunberger]

I really enjoy the aspect of social mobility, both up and down. In my family, my paternal grandfather, in the Edwardian period, was a working class fireman on the railroad. He was killed in a railroad accident in 1922 leaving a wife and 5 children. Fortunately, he was a union member so his widow got a small pension and somehow survived. My dad, the middle child born in 1919, managed to finish HS and got a job with the federal government in DC in 1939 eventually reaching the highest grade (GS-15) before retiring in 1979. All his children finished college and two are lawyers. I often reflect how lucky I am to have had such hardworking ancestors and how easily it could have turned out differently.

[Juliita]

Poor They have to go through so much adversity!!!! I couldn’t help laughing at Geneve’s face when she was fired!!! She was so deep in the role, that she thought it was true!! Lol

[KaylaCollingwood]

"If it's anything to do with chocolate, I'll find it" 😂

[abbyschwendler]

I would love to see something like this with far more detail. Illustrating products used to brush teeth, to style hair, medicines used etc. This is a great series

[frankiezook]

When the boy said look at the CDs I was like wow! am I really that old... where this kid thinks CDs are from the war

Edit - thanks you for 51 likes (most I have ever

[djm]

Saskia is such a determined, resourceful, and diligent teenager. I feel like most her age, especially American kids, would've griped, laughed, or not cared much to perform these duties. She's mature beyond her years.