Servants Abroad - Travel Journals By British Working People, 1765-1798

About the author

Richard Ansell is a postdoctoral researcher at Birkbeck, University of London, interested in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century travel. He is the author of Complete Gentlemen: Educational Travel and Family Strategy, 1650-1750 (British Academy/OUP, 2022) and several articles and book chapters on the social and cultural history of travel. He studied at Selwyn College, Cambridge, Brown University and Hertford College, Oxford, and held a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Leicester. At Birkbeck, he is currently a researcher on the Leverhulme project 'Written Worlds: Non-Elite Writing in Seventeenth-Century England'.

Summary

Servants Abroad presents the journals of four British domestic servants who travelled to continental Europe in the eighteenth century. With a full introduction, these texts overturn the standard view of the 'Grand Tour' by revealing the experiences and impressions of the majority who travelled in service.

Product details

• Authors: Richard (Birkbeck Ansell
• Assisted by: Richard Ansell (Editor), Richard (Birkbeck Ansell (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.11.2024
• EAN: 9780197267806
• ISBN: 978-0-19-726780-6
• No. of pages: 284
• Series: Records of Social and Economic History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; European History, HISTORY / Europe / General, HISTORY / Historiography, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Slavery, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Historiography, British & Irish history, Slavery & abolition of slavery, Slavery and abolition of slavery