The taxpayer-funded scheme even allows bureaucrats to bring their parents, partners and children to confidential counselling sessions. The government has defended the “employee assistance programs” — ...

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 ...

Tyler Cowen links to this book review all about servants in England over the past couple of centuries. While what is said is true in so far as it goes I think it's missing a rather important point ...

Ruth Goodman is a rare person. She has not just researched the Victorian era, she has lived it. She has sewn its clothes, lived its conditions and done its work. Yes, she has washed floors in an ...

This room-by-room guide brims with delightful description and discussion of the Victorians and their domestic environments. Flanders (A Circle of Sisters, which was shortlisted for the Guardian First ...

The history of legal restrictions imposed upon Victorian departmental public servants dates from the introduction of responsible government in 1856. This article examines the evolution of Victorian ...

In what passes for a liturgical calendar in the land of television, we are now in the high holy days of the year. "Downton Abbey" returned to our screens and our homes Jan. 4. The servants' bell ...

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 ...

Former Labor senator Stephen Conroy claims Victoria’s cost-cutting measures including axing thousands of public servants are due to some “hard decisions”. The Labor state government will be axing the ...