Ruth Ann Goodman, 72, of Columbus, passed from this life at 1:14 p.m. Friday, July 31, 2020 with her wife and three daughters by her side. She was taken from her family suddenly and unexpectedly. She ...

Brush your teeth with soot, stay away from water, wear a steel corset. We’ll talk with the author of “How to Be A Victorian.” Strange ways from another age. Frederick Daniel Hardy's "Baby's Birthday" ...

Ruth Goodman is a rare person. She has not just researched the Victorian era, she has lived it. She has sewn its clothes, lived its conditions and done its work. Yes, she has washed floors in an ...

Historian Goodman (How to Behave Badly in Elizabethan England) delivers an immersive account of how England’s switch from wood to coal as a primary fuel source sparked massive social change. Between ...

Society has changed in monumental ways, the British historian Ruth Goodman observes, since the days “when we used scouring sand and wood ash to do the washing up”—and some of that change was “a direct ...

Ruth Goodman is a British freelance historian of the early modern period, specialising in offering advice to museums and heritage attractions. She is a specialist in British social history and is a ...