Women in Their Nineties Talk About Being Teenagers During the Victoria Era in a 1970 Documentary



This clip from a 1970 BBC documentary called Two Victorian Girls (Yesterday’s Witness) features two women in their nineties, Berta Ruck and Frances “Effy” Jones, talking about growing up as teenagers in England during the Victorian era (1837-1901).

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