Family & Community Historical Research Society

Upstairs & Downstairs: The Community of the Country House

PROGRAMME Saturday

• 0930 Registration & Coffee, collection of Conference Pack.
• 1000 Welcome - Chairman
• 1010 -1100 Guest Speaker "Emerging from the Shadows-Maids & Mistresses at Brodsworth Hall".
  •  Virginia Arrowsmith, English Heritage.
• 1100-1115 Short Break
• 1115-1135 Members Presentation "Domestic Service in the 20th century Big House; exploring social relations through the use of oral testimony"
  • Dick Hunter FACHRS
• 1135-1205 Projects Update
  • The Almshouses Project - Ann Langley project coordinator
• 1205-1230 Members Presentation "Almshouses and the Country Estate"
  • Clive Leivers FACHRS
• 1230 Annual General Meeting for FACHRS Members
• 1300-1400 Lunch
• 1400-1450 Guest Speaker "A Community of Individuals: the example of Dunham Massey"
  •  Pam Sambrook, University of Keele
• 1450-1505 Short Break
• 1505-1550 Members Presentation "Houses of the Midland Counties and their Servants: 1870-1900"
  • Christine Seal, FACHRS
• 1550 -1630 Members Presentation
  • A Unique Concentration?- Women Living & Working in Morningside 1841-91
    • Jill Powlett-Brown
• 1630 Close and tea

Programme Sunday

• The York Almshouses walk
  • Meet 9.45 am in Exhibition Square outside the Art Gallery (See Events for more information)