Knowing Their Place: Domestic Service in Twentieth Century Britain by Lucy Delap

Knowing Their Place: Domestic Service in Twentieth Century Britain

Lucy Delap

304 pages first pub 2011 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced
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Historians have traditionally seen domestic service as an obsolete or redundant sector from the middle of the twentieth century. Knowing Their Place challenges this by linking the early twentieth century employment of maids and cooks to later prac...

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