Abstract
AbstractThe domestic technologies of the great country houses of England are often a strange amalgam of the avant-garde and the extraordinarily old-fashioned. For instance, in the 1860s, the butler at the Anson family home of Shugborough, near Stafford, was spending a small fortune in telegram charges, keeping in almost daily contact with his employer, the second Earl of Lichfield, who was staying in the family's London house. At the same time, he was struggling with a brewing technology which had changed little since the Middle Ages. Thus country-house technologies are of interest in themselves, but their study can also have a wider significance.
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