Dr Pamela Cox looks at the grand houses of the Victorian ruling elite - large country estates dependent on an army of staff toiling away below stairs. The Victorians ushered in a new ideal of ...

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Shrines, slave quarters, and social relevance : the changing historic house museum -- Interpretation of domestic service at post-Civil War house museums -- The ideal, the real, and the servant problem ...

A century ago, 1.5 million British people worked as servants – astonishingly, more than worked in factories or farms. But while servants are often portrayed as characters in period dramas, the real ...