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 ...

The Victorian Era is a period in time that is used to refer to the age when Queen Victoria of England reigned, which, specifically, ran from 1837 to 1901. The era is commonly romanticized on account ...

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 ...