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26 September 2012: Discovering the hidden lives of servants

Dr Pam Cox from the Department of Sociology is presenting a major BBC television series this autumn on the history of servants.

Dr Cox, who is herself the great-granddaughter of servants, is well known at the University as Dean of the Graduate School, but the BBC has been making use of her expertise as a social historian for its new series Servants: The True Story of Life Below Stairs. Read the full story on the University of Essex news feed.

In this short video, Pam gives a great insight into her research and how she developed the TV series.

Broadcast highlights

• Midweek (BBC Radio 4, iplayer)
• Servants: The True Story of Life Below Stairs, BBC Two, Preview (The Telegraph)
• 100 years ago 1 in 4 of us would have been servants ... and we wouldn’t have been very Abbey about it (The Sun)
• Dr Pam is bringing the lives of servants to TV (Daily Gazette)
• The REAL story of Britain's servant class (and it wasn't exactly Downton Abbey): New BBC series reveals what it was really like downstairs (The Daily Mail)
• Night Waves (BBC Radio 3, iplayer)

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