Servants Abroad

Richard Ansell is a postdoctoral researcher at Birkbeck, University of London, interested in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century travel. He is the author of Complete Gentlemen: Educational Travel and Family Strategy, 1650-1750 (British Academy/OUP, 2022) and several articles and book chapters on the social and cultural history of travel. He studied at Selwyn College, Cambridge, Brown University and Hertford College, Oxford, and held a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Leicester. At Birkbeck, he is currently a researcher on the Leverhulme project 'Written Worlds: Non-Elite Writing in Seventeenth-Century England'.

• List of MapsList of FiguresAbbreviationsAcknowledgementsIntroductionServants Abroad: Who, and How Many?Sources for Travelling ServantsTravel Journals by ServantsThe Evidence of Servants' Travel JournalsNote on Editorial MethodThomas AddisonIntroductionJournalEdmund DewesIntroductionJournalJames ThoburnIntroductionJournalAnn ScafeIntroductionJournalBibliographyIndex

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