History of domestic objects and housekeeping: list of articles

Washing the laundry

• Washboards - their "invention" and history
• Great washes and washing-days
• Washing bats and beetles - beating the washing clean
• Washing dollies and possers - for use in a tub
• Laundry blue
• Clothes horses and airers
• Drying outdoors
• Lye and chamber lye - washing with ashes or urine, bucking
• Lye and ashes - process illustrated
• French washboards
• Washing boards in Italy
• Laundry ponches, punches, possers

• Washing and cleaning for a duke in 17th century England
• Laundresses
• Where to buy laundry blue
• Bag wash and wet wash
• Laundry in ice-holes in frozen rivers
• Laundry punches, ponches, possers

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Ironing the laundry

• History of ironing - including linen smoothers, mangle boards, box irons etc.
• Early electric irons
• Gas irons
• Ironing boards
• Ironing sticks and clubs in Korea and Japan
• Irons for frills & ruffles
• Mangles - box mangles especially

• Charcoal iron designs - birds - and a steam locomotive flat iron
• Dalli irons - and fuel briquettes

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Kitchen, dairy & pottery

• Bakers' peels - for bread ovens
• Bannocks, baking over an open fire
• Butter crocks and coolers
• Butter-making - churns
• End-over-end barrel churns
• Game pie dishes in 19th century England
• History of pressure cookers
• Hasteners and meat screens
• Nutcrackers
• Redware and red clay in the USA
• Sugar nippers, cutting sugar-loaf
• Tureens, ducks, hens

• Kitchen antiques - resources
• Domestic pottery - resources
• Salt-glazed stoneware - resources

Beds

• Press, cabinet and box beds - and bed recesses
• Breton box beds - the lit-clos
• Featherbeds, duvets, eiderdowns
• Marseilles or Marcella quilts
• Medieval beds - with glossary
• Palliasses, straw mattresses
• One-legged bedsteads in log cabins
• Bed warmers using hot coals
  Bed warmers puzzle

Other topics

• Rag rugs
• Tallow candles and candle-snuffers
• Rushlight dips & nips
• Brooms & besoms
• Buckets made by coopers
• Watering pots
• Baby walkers
• Peat fires
• Setting up home in 17th century London
• Fireplaces
• Hanging chimneys, hingin lums
• Earth closets
• Living on the move
• Victorian cold frames - cucumber frames
• Washing and cleaning for a duke in 17th century England

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