{"id":181,"date":"2026-09-18T13:55:18","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T12:55:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kfhs.uk\/events\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=181"},"modified":"2026-09-18T13:55:18","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T12:55:18","slug":"recroding-domestic-service-before-the-great-war","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/kfhs.uk\/events\/all_events\/recroding-domestic-service-before-the-great-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Recroding \u2013 Domestic Service before the Great War"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Wednesday 06th January 2027, From 10.00am<\/h2>\n<h3>Online via Zoom RECORDING<\/h3>\n<p>Virtual &#8211; speaker Ian Porter<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"\/files\/images\/2026_news\/KFHS_Trishas_Family_Collection.jpg\" alt=\"KFHS Trisha Bakters Family Collection\" width=\"292\" height=\"352\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>About the Talk<\/h3>\n<p>What it was really like to be in domestic service? TV series, such as Downton Abbey, paint a fairly rosy picture of service. In this talk Ian will tell us what servants&#8217; lives and jobs were really like.<\/p>\n<h3>About the Speaker<\/h3>\n<p>Ian Porter is a novelist, historian and walks guide in London. He studied 19th Century Urban Poverty in England at the University of Birmingham and was awarded the Chancellor\u2019s Prize for outstanding achievement. He is currently the owner of London Town Walks and is a highly regarded public speaker and writer on the Victorian East End. He is the author of the highly acclaimed Whitechapel, set amidst the 1888 murders, whilst his second novel is set in the world of suffragettes.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday 06th January 2027, From 10.00am Online via Zoom RECORDING Virtual &#8211; speaker Ian Porter About the Talk What it was really like to be in domestic service? TV series, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[],"class_list":["post-181","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kfhs.uk\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kfhs.uk\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kfhs.uk\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kfhs.uk\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kfhs.uk\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":182,"href":"https:\/\/kfhs.uk\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/181\/revisions\/182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kfhs.uk\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kfhs.uk\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kfhs.uk\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}