Painting of a woman making oat cakes by George Walker (1781-1856)

Can she bake? The Bake Off back story

07 October 2014

As Great British Bake Off sizzles towards tomorrow’s final, historian Sophie McGeevor reveals the less glamorous realities that faced working class women in the mid-19th century when home baking was already considered a dying art. 

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Yard of a tenement New York, c 1900

What 19th-century women really did

08 March 2014

In a talk on Monday (10 March, 2014) Sophie McGeevor (Faculty of History) will explain how her research into a collection of autobiographies by working class women is helping to fill a gap in our knowledge of the occupational structure of 19th century Britain. 

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