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I stumbled across Heather Firbank, Edwardian fashion victim, when I made an appointment to view a dozen feathered hats at the Victoria...

A dozen feathered hats, hidden within the fashion archives of the Victorian and Albert Museum, London, were my first introduction to...

My only gripe with Downton Abbey was that the servants never did any real work. We never got to see housemaids hand-sweeping the state...

EVER since Mr Carson and Mrs Hughes were seen coyly holding hands at that servants' outing to the seaside, Downton Abbey viewers waited...