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In this book, first published in 1980, the author draws a vivid picture of what country life was like for the vast majority of English villagers ¿ agricultural labourers, craftsmen and small farmers ¿ during a period of rapid agricultural development.

The fascinating history of Abingdon, illustrated through old and modern pictures.

In this book, first published in 1980, the author draws a vivid picture of what country life was like for the vast majority of English villagers ¿ agricultural labourers, craftsmen and small farmers ¿ during a period of rapid agricultural development.

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Who were the servants who kept the great houses and the middle class homes of Georgian England running? What kinds of work did they do? How were they treated? What did they think of their masters and mistresses upstairs? Pamela Horn has mined the archives of stately homes to investigate.

Victorian England measured social acceptability in terms of the number of servants employed in a household. This work covers contemporary sources and "servants' books", and personal reminiscences by servants and employers. It covers recruitment and training, and the duties expected by servants.

Using first-hand accounts and reminiscences by former servants from Lancashire, Liverpool, Manchester, Leicestershire, Northamptonshire, Scotland and Wales, as well as official records and newspaper reports, this is a study of "Life Below Stairs" from 1900 to the new millennium.

As Britain's population grew and the country became urbanised and industrialised in eighteenth and early nineteenth century, so shops, shopkeepers, and shopworkers also increased in number. This book tells the story of the people who worked in the retail trade from the beginning of the eighteenth to the middle of the twentieth century.

By using reminiscences, official records and newspaper reports, this book considers the changing face of domestic service from 1918 to the eve of the new millennium. It is the sequel to the highly praised "Rise and Fall of the Victorian Servant".

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The real lives of servants in the era of the TV series 'Downton Abbey'.

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This book examines the scale and nature of child employment in Britain and the changing attitude of society toward it in the years between 1780 and 1890. The author discusses the efforts of philanthropists and the State to regulate the lives and employment conditions of young workers, and examines the attempts made to improve the education and physical welfare of children in this period. She concludes that in the century after 1780 there was a...

Examines the scale and nature of child employment and the changing attitudes of society towards it, in the years between 1780 and 1890.

It was a paradox of nineteenth-century Britain that while work was the bedrock upon which the Victorian vision of progress and improvement was constructed, the years between 1837 and 1901 also saw the greatest upsurge in leisure pursuits hitherto witnessed.

The story of the shopworkers who emerged during the Victorian and Edwardian era to cater for all clientele from behind the counters of the increasing number of shops and lavish department stores.

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