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Servants: A Downstairs View of Twentieth Century Britain: A Downstairs View of Twentieth Century Britain by Lucy Lethbridge
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Servants: A Downstairs View of Twentieth-century Britain is the social history of the last century through the eyes of those who served. From the butler, the footman, the maid and the cook of 1900 to the au pairs, cleaners and childminders who took their place seventy years later, a previously unheard c ...Show more
Spit and Polish: Old-Fashioned Ways to Banish Dirt, Dust and Decay by Lucy Lethbridge
$29.99 AUD
Category: Hints
In the late nineteenth century, general housework in the British home was so labour intensive that it required an army of servants to undertake it. Since then, the ways in which we look after our homes may have changed dramatically but the best and simplest of methods from that time still work for us to ...Show more
The Story of Ada Lovelace: The Mathematical Genius by Lucy Lethbridge
$18.98 AUD
Category: Children's Reference | Series: Great Victorians
Daughter of the famous romantic poet Lord Byron, Ada Lovelace was a child prodigy. Brilliant at maths, she read numbers like most people read words.Lady Byron wanted Ada to be as unlike her father as possible. Ada grew up surrounded by an army of tutors who taught her every subject every waking moment, ...Show more
Tourists - How the British Went Abroad to Find Themselves by Lucy Lethbridge
$22.99 AUD
Category: Travel
*FOYLES NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE MONTH*'I really can't recommend this enough - especially if you are going on holiday' Tom Holland'Delightful ... Lucy Lethbridge has written a glorious romp of a book' Kathryn Hughes, The Mail on Sunday'It is the paramount wish of every English heart, ever addicted to vag ...Show more
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