The project develops a thematic database of servants at all of the more than 700 Danish manors over a period of over a hundred years. The project will secure, make accessible and disseminate the special cultural heritage hidden in the Danish censuses' unique and detailed records of Danish households in the past and systematically activate and develop this material.
The database will provide an opportunity to draw a real and representative picture of the structure and differences of households, track variations in the composition of the manor household over time and in a geographical and social perspective, and create insight into how societal developments affected the manor households and servants.
Material from the database will eventually be made available to the public via the dissemination platform www.danskeherregaarde.dk and will be used widely in the dissemination work of the research center and its partners.
The database is also being developed as a research infrastructure for the research center's other research into practical and ideological frameworks on the service relationship and the manor as a household and is part of ongoing collaboration with these projects under the collective research effort "Always at Service".