Tessa Boase is a British freelance journalist, author, lecturer and campaigner with an interest in uncovering the stories of invisible women from the 19th and early 20th-centuries, revealing how they drove industry, propped up society and influenced politics. She's the author of three books of social history: The Housekeeper's Tale: The Women Who Really Ran the English Country House (2014); Etta Lemon: The Woman Who Saved the Birds (2018), and London's Lost Department Stores: A Vanished World of Dazzle and Dreams (2022).
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Best-selling social historian Tessa Boase takes us behind the scenes of London's lost department stores, bringing back to life a vanished era of confidence and style. Today's consumer has little idea of the sheer dazzle of these 'Halls of Temptation' duri... SEE MORE