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Unexpected Edwardians

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We're interested in penetrating secret worlds. We think down to an abbey and upstairs,. downstairs, two t v series that kind of have put tanks on the lawn in this period do it rather a dis service for ex where servants are concerned. The typical servant picture is not a liveried servant in a great house, but a drudge who a lower middle class family can barely afford. Their secrets are very interesting. And the secret edwardian feelings of the employers is also very interesting. They feared their servants. They worried about their servants. But they were perfectly happy to buy them as if they were commodities. It gives us an insight into this really complex, colorful and slightly bizarre age

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