Hello and welcome to episode 4 of Dining with our ancestors, exploring what those who passed their genes to us ate, and the constraints on them, in an attempt to better understand ourselves.

Today, a Victorian mother must sell her son into the chimney sweep trade to ensure the family has enough food to get through the winter.

You can expect to learn:

• What a typical chimney sweep ate, how long a work day was and was his lunchbreak allocated?
• What were more broadly Victorian pay and conditions like, how did this contribute to the wider industrial revolution?
• What would a typical Victorian family eat daily, how was this prepared in the same terraced houses that litter the UK today - but without modern technological proficiencies?
• How did the practice of Chimney sweeping become eradicated, and what impact did literature and poetry have?

Does Mrs. Jones' sale of her son actually deliver the hope of a better future?

Or does it only condemn to further misery and suffering...

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