Want to immerse yourself in the world of Gosford Park? Check out these websites, biographies, fiction and non-fiction focussing on life above and below stairs in Victorian, Edwardian, inter war, and post-WWII England.
Gosford Park and Robert Altman
Altman on Altman by David Thompsons
History
The Long Week-End: A Social History of Great Britain 1918-1939 by Robert Graves & Alan Hodge
The English: A Social History, 1066-1945 by Christopher Hibbert
English History 1914-1945 (The Oxford History of England) by A. J. P. Taylor
Uncommon Arrangements: Seven Portraits of Married Life in London Literary Circles 1910-1939 by Katie Roiphe
Good-Bye To All That: An Autobiography by Robert Graves
The Great War and Modern Memory by Paul Fussell
The Perfect Summer: England 1911, Just Before the Storm by Juliet Nicolson
Women in the 1920s by Pamela Horn
Ladies of the Manor: Wives and Daughters in Country House Society, 1830-1918 by Pamela Horn
High Society: The English Social Elite, 1880-1914 by Pamela Horn
Aristocratic Women and Political Society in Victorian Britain by K. D. Reynolds
Working-Class Housing in England between the Wars: The Becontree Estate by Andrzej Olechnowicz
Religious Belief and Popular Culture in Southwark c. 1880-1939 by S. C. Williams
Gender, Modernity, and the Popular Press in Inter-War Britain by Adrian Bingham
Anticolonialism in British Politics: The Left and the End of Empire 1918-1964 by Stephen Howe
Music for the People: Popular Music and Dance in Interwar Britain by James Nott
Popular Reading and Publishing in Britain 1914-1950 by Joseph McAleer
Wartime: Britain 1939-1945 by Juliet Gardiner
Years of Change European History 1890-1945 by Robert Wolfson
Britain on the Breadline: A Social and Political History of Britain 1918-1939 by Keith Laybourn
The World According to Hollywood, 1918-1939 by Ruth Vasey
Queer London: Perils and Pleasures in the Sexual Metropolis, 1918-1957 by Matt Houlbrook
Manor Houses
Life in the English Country House: A Social and Architectural History by Mark Girouard
In Search of a Past: The Manor House, Amnersfield, 1933-1945 by Ronald Fraser
Manor House: Life in an Edwardian Country House by Juliet Gardiner
The English Country House: A Grand Tour by Gervase Jackson-Stops
Life Below Stairs
Backstairs Life in a Country House by Eileen Balderson
Below Stairs by Margaret Powell
Servants' Hall by Margaret Powell
Climbing The Stairs by Margaret Powell
Rose: My Life In Service by Rosina Harrison
Gentlemen's Gentlemen by Rosina Harrison
Life Below Stairs in the 20th Century by Pamela Horn
Life Below Stairs: Domestic servants in England from Victorian times by Frank Edward Huggett
Not in front of the servants;: Domestic service in England 1850-1939 by Frank Victor Dawes
Below Stairs in the Great Country Houses by Adeline Hartcup
The Duties of Servants (Above & Below Stairs) by Jan Barnes
The Rise and Fall of the Victorian Servant by Pamela Horn
The Complete Servant (Southover Historic Cookery and Housekeeping) by Samuel & Sarah Adams
As It Was by Mabel Batten
Ivor Novello
In Search of Ruritania by David Slattery-Christy
Ivor Novello: a Portrait of a Star by Paul Webb
Ivor Novello: A Biography by James Harding
Ivor by Sandy Wilson
Ivor Novello by Peter Noble
Ivor—The Story Of An Achievement; A Biography Of Ivor Novello by W. Macqueen-Pope
Ivor Novello: Screen Idol by Michael Williams
Perchance to dream: The world of Ivor Novello by Richard Rose
New Welsh Drama III (includes "Inside Out" by Lesley Ross)
Ivor Novello's Intimates and Contemporaries
Present Indicative by Noël Coward
Future Indefinite: With the Unfinished Past Unconditional by Noël Coward
Noël Coward: A Biography by Philip Hoare
My Life With Noël Coward by Graham Payn
Edward Marsh Patron of the Arts by Hassall, Christopher
Those dancing years: An autobiography by Mary Ellis
Film & Television
The Rules of the Game
The Shooting Party
The Remains of the Day
Upstairs Downstairs: The Complete Series
The Duchess of Duke Street
Brideshead Revisited
Campion
The Cazalets
Regeneration
Film & Television - Non-Fiction
Edwardian Country House (R2 PAL)
Novels
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Shooting Party by Isabel Colegate
Lady's Maid by Margaret Forster
Regeneration by Pat Barker
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
The Light Years by Elizabeth Jane Howard
I Capture The Castle by Dodie Smith
Albert Campion Mysteries by Margery Allingham
Maisie Dobbs Mysteries by Jacquiline Winspear
Her Royal Spyness by Rhys Bowen
Music
We'll Gather Lilacs: The Songs of Ivor Novello
Shine Through My Dreams: Original 1917-1950 Recordings
Those Dreaming Years
In London 1930-34 Vol. 1
In London 1930-34 Vol. 2
In London 1930-34 Vol. 3
The Top 100 Masterpieces of Classical Music, Vol. 6-10 (1842 - 1928)
The Dance Band Years
Websites
DeBrett's
Burke's Peerage & Gentry
The Edwardian Country House
Ivor Novello Appreciation Bureau
BBC Wales: Ivor Novello
Ivor Novello Homepage
Ivor Novello Statue Appeal
