Secrets of the Office

Join author and journalist, Lucy Lethbridge, as she explores the fascination, if unusual, world of the office, delving into the history of filing cabinets, shorthand, double-entry bookkeeping and time and motion studies.

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 which includes Servants: a downstairs view of twentieth-century Britain, 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.

 

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