Exhibition: Practices
Find out more about how servants lived and worked in country houses
Selling servants’ furniture: Lillington Dayrell, 26 May 1800
Country house auctions were a key mechanism for the recirculation of goods in the eighteenth and early nineteenth century….
Servants’ material culture in the transition from a feudal to a capitalistic economy: Sweden 1730 to 1870
Country house auctions were a key mechanism for the recirculation of goods in the eighteenth and early nineteenth century….
Servants and travel
We primarily see country house servants as connected to the country house, vital as they were in the daily work of running these large estates. However, servants were much more often exposed to travel and geographical mobility than we might imagine.