Some recommended background reading for women & house history: @Amanda_Vickery Behind Closed Doors: At Home in Georgian England; @JudithFlanders The Victorian House #HouseHistoryHour

Breadwinner: An Intimate History of the Victorian Economy by @EmmaGriffinHist looks at the burdens placed on working-class women who were reliant on a male breadwinner’s wage & the challenges they faced in managing the household budget #HouseHistoryHour #WomensHistory

Another dimension of Victorian women’s domestic lives is revealed in @Vicky_Holmes In Bed With the Victorians: The Life-Cycle of Working-Class Marriage #HouseHistoryHour #WomensHistory

2 of my favourite sources for 20th century working-class women are investigations of housing conditions: Maud Member Reeves’ Round About A Pound a Week (1913) & Margery Spring Rice’s Working Class Lives (1939) #HouseHistoryHour #WomensHistory

Domestic advice manuals are great sources for women & house history although we must remember that they present an idealised view that might be different to the lived reality. Cassell’s Household Guide is particularly good for late Victorian #HouseHistoryHour #WomensLives

Mrs Peel’s early 20th century domestic advice manuals are great, as is her history of domestic life & her memoir. For the 1920s I like Nancie Clifton Reynold’s Easier Housework by Better Equipment. She also had a shop & did talks on BBC radio #HouseHistoryHour #WomensLives