What was life really like for the servants who worked below stairs in the era of Downton Abbey? Literary dramatist Leslie Goddard takes us “downstairs” to experience life below stairs in the stately ...

A woman has revealed how she walks down the "death stairs" in her 18th-century house, which were originally used by servants. Kim and her husband, Rod, bought Bloomfield Farm in Virginia, a few years ...

This forgotten period drama has a star-studded cast and makes for the perfect series to binge-watch this season.

Many Americans were introduced to the world of early 20th century British servants through the PBS series Downton Abbey, which premieres its fourth season Sunday. The show is set in an era when ...

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 ...

The upwardly mobile classes in Mumbai would not like their servants to climb up the social ladder just as quickly, it seems.Perpetuating an age-old class divide in the city that started with many ...

Servants: A Downstairs View of 20th-Century Britain. By Lucy Lethbridge. Bloomsbury; 385 pages; £20. To be published in America in November by Norton; $27.95. Buy from Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk WINSTON ...