Life in the real “Downton Abbeys.” During the Edwardian period there were over 1½ million domestic servants in Britain, ranging from housemaids and cooks to butlers, gardeners, and chauffeurs. These men and women worked long hours to create and maintain a life of elegance and ease for their wealthy employers. This beautifully illustrated book takes you on a journey through a day-in-the-life of the workings of homes in both the town and the country, including those of famous Edwardians such as Beatrix Potter, suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst, politician and statesman Winston Churchill, and authors George Bernard Shaw and P. G. Wodehouse. Drawing on personal accounts of both the servants and their employers, Upstairs & Downstairs reveals the secret histories of the people and their houses to show you what life was really like on both sides of the class divide.
