IT’S the beloved period drama centred around the lives of Victorian-era servants and the aristocrat overlords they gleefully ...

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 ...

The 19th century, as she says, "was the century of urbanization." Whereas in 1801 "only 20 percent of the population of Great Britain lived in cities," a century later "that figure had risen to nearly ...