Many servants hated their lot ... "domestic service was the single largest occupation in Edwardian Britain." Households that could easily afford such improvements as electric lighting, vacuum ...

very big deal in the lives of the landed gentry of Edwardian England. Much of the drama surrounding the aristocratic Crawley family and their servants unfolds against a tableau of the table.

Life for most Victorian and ­Edwardian servants was grim. Your employers regarded you as expendable at best. Labour was cheap and there were millions of unemployed, uneducated young men and women.

Servants should never offer any opinion to their employers, nor even to say good night or good morning except in reply to salutation. Never talk to another servant, or a person of your own rank ...

They’re finding out what it means to be masters and servants, living upstairs and downstairs in a grand manor house.” It was filmed from August to November in 2001 and aired as “Edwardian ...

This historical drama follows the lives of the Crawley family and their servants in the family's Edwardian country house. The programme begins with the 1912 sinking of the Titanic, which leaves ...