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….

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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….

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