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Outside of the domestic sphere, in the mid 1850s an inspiring chef Alexei Soyer (who despite cooking for the elite at London Gentleman’s clubs was
so horrified by lack of nutrition for the poor) invented ‘soup kitchens’. From this, he headed to the Crimea War with the ‘Soyer field stove’ to revive the wounded soldiers,
forming a close working relationship with Florence Nightingale. After first world war, the class system began to loosen and open up with the working men starting to find a
voice of their own. Women also began to have some autonomy outside the home.
