There's a great series of books by Jodi Taylor - The Chronicles of St Marys. It concerns an historian who takes a job at St Marys and discovers an eccentric and disaster prone team who investigate major historical events in contemporary time (and do NOT call it time travel!). One of the points that she constantly puts across is how the past isn't a Hollywood movie. It stinks, vaccinations are required because of disease, clothes are uncomfortable and itchy, the status of women and men can be very variable etc. Very funny and enjoyable books IMHO.
I did look them up, but, they are advertised as "for young people", which rather rules me, and, even my children, out.
Grandchildren may be interested, but, I detect from the "eye rolling" when I fall into the trap of talking about "the olden days" that their interest would be minimal.
I do recall one, to me, amusing incident, with the two grandsons (at that time, age about 9 and 10). I took them on a Visit to Beamish Museum (a sort of open air museum, mostly replicating North East life, from about 1780-1960).
There is a small Drift Coal Mine (not sure if it is "real" or a replica),
The boys went to the "coal face" and watched as a "miner" hacked lumps of coal from the seam, with a pick.
Later, we went into one of the replica miner's cottages, where there was a real coal fire burning, in a Range.
I explained to the boys that the coal they had just seen being dug out, was what was burning on the fire. They looked at be oddly and said "grandad, where you really that poor that you had to burn stones?".
Thankfully, Both of them are intelligent, and well educated enough that I doubt they will ever have to be coal miners
