If you've ever watched the television show Downton Abbey, you've probably deduced that dining was a very, very big deal in the lives of the landed gentry of Edwardian England. Much of the drama ...

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If you ever get a chance to experience life in an Edwardian manor house, here’s a tip: Try for a part in the upper class. “It was absolutely wonderful for the most part,” said John Olliff-Cooper, who ...

Grandson of valet Alf Edwards and kitchen maid Caroline Palmer donates dozens of their personal objects to English Heritage He was a valet, she was a kitchen maid and more than a century ago they met ...

It is a truth seldom acknowledged that few subjects fascinate as consistently as the peculiar domestic and social arrangements of other cultures, particularly when those cultures are in many respects ...