Globalising Housework

<p>This book shows how international influences profoundly shaped the ‘English’ home of Victorian and Edwardian London; homes which in turn influenced Britain’s (and Britons’) place on the world stage. The period between 1850 and 1914 was one of fundamental global change when London homes were subject to new expanding influences that shaped how residents cleaned ate and cared for family. It was also the golden age of domesticity when the making and maintaining of home expressed people’s experience of society class race and politics. Focusing on the everyday toil of housework the chapters in this volume show the ‘English’ home as profoundly global conglomeration of people technology and things. It examines a broad spectrum of sources from patents to ice cream makers and explores domestic histories through original readings and critiques of printed sources material culture and visual ephemera. </p>