Servants: A Downstairs View of 20th Century Britain

Join author and journalist, Lucy Lethbridge, as she explores the rise and fall of domestic service across 75 years.  Lucy’s talk encompasses the history of domestic life: of class, furniture, entertaining, labour-saving gadgets and the whole notion of cleanliness itself,

Lucy specialises in popular history books for adults and children and won the 2002 Blue Peter prize for non-fiction with her first book, a biographical study of the computer wizard, Ada Lovelace. Her adult work also includes Tourists: how the British went abroad to find themselves, Spit and Polish: old-fashioned ways to banish dirt, dust and decay and Henry Smith: his life & legacy.

 

Sponsored by: THE TOLSEY MUSEUM