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Somerset & Dorset
Family History Society

Digging and Dusting – Women’s Work in Service

Date: 15th October 2025
Time: 19:30
Location: The Bow Room of The Exchange, Sturminster Newton
Blackmore Vale Group

To enter into service on an estate was often the only option available to working class women. Valerie has been investigating the Kingston Lacy estate wages ledger which presents a snapshot of a rural workforce and fascinating case-studies of working women.

Speaker: Valerie Brenton

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