They illustrate the lives of people: farmers, labourers, fishermen, housewives, etc.
Historians and archaeologists play the parts of ordinary people and live and work immersed in the time specified.
The team perform the everyday crafts such as hunting, gathering, sowing and reaping as well as experimenting with more specialised work like blacksmithing, woodcutting and mining under the eyes of an experienced tutor.
Each series (save the first) has taken place at a public living history site that provides external in-period experts, experience, and flavour.
The Wartime Farm series includes conversations with men and women who remember the time.