Country house servants were seldom socially or spatially isolated: they were bound into familial and social networks within the country house, in its surrounding communities and even nationally This workshop will bring together researchers from a range of European countries…
Historic Royal Palaces is currently running an exhibition on the untold lives of a wide range of servants who have worked at Kensington and Hampton Court: from Frances Talbot, the ‘rat killer ‘Keeper of ice and snow’, to Mehmet von…
The second workshop took place on 4 June 2024 at Manchester Metropolitan University. The theme was “Representations of Country House Servants”. Literary scholar Karen Lipsedge (Kingston University, UK) opened the workshop with a paper exploring how the anonymous 1808 novel…