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Yet her granddaughter, Lady Sybil, aware of this impending social storm, attempts at least, to get involved and attends a protest meeting — and she helps one of the servants find a less restrictive job in an office. Despite the efforts of the reforming Liberal Government and Prime Minister Herbert Asquith, in the years between and there was considerable industrial unrest across the country. Yet the years between and were ushering in many reforms and the beginnings of a welfare state: the needs of the ordinary person were no longer going to be ignored.

And, of course, we continue to live with them. The evidence of Edwardian life is everywhere. Not only the big department stores, hotels, theatres and seaside resorts where they enjoyed themselves, but our homes too.

The Edwardians and Victorians built so much housing that still stands in our country. Servants worked for millions of middle-class families in cities too, not just the super-rich country house dwellers.

So anyone living in a house or conversion from the Victorian or Edwardian era inhabits the same space, may see the same view from their window. We can easily imagine their lives for ourselves. More insights to these lives can also be found, of course, in taking time out to visit the grand country houses dotted all over the country, many open to the general public, thanks to their owners and the work of English Heritage and the National Trust. These houses are awesome examples of architectural grandeur, wealth, and the long histories of many aristocratic families.

Some houses show, in some detail, the fascinating insights into life below stairs, so that we can see with our own eyes how it was, wander around their vast gardens and estates and gaze at the impressive splendour of their vast interiors.

This book covers a wider period, from the late s right up to when the war started. We left the world of toffs and servants when the next page of history was turned, the onset of World War I in August After this, many grand country houses were requisitioned as hospitals to treat the sick and wounded.

Close to a million British men were killed and millions more wounded in combat — yet it eventually sped up the process of the changes in society that were already beginning to be felt before the war. Wealthy, privileged individuals took up arms alongside ordinary working men: unbreakable bonds, irrelevant of class or background, were formed in adversity — and after the war, they remained, helping bring the class barriers down.

But the figures speak for themselves: a life in service no longer appealed to successive generations with other work options. And the decline of aristocratic wealth meant those in servitude themselves were no longer needed in large numbers. By there were 1. And a decade on, in , just , people worked as servants. The wider availability of labour-saving household devices, better job opportunities and wider education options for all, in time, limited the availability or need for servants.

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