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From Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium

Contents 1 Organizations 2 Publications 3 Training 4 Links to full text 5 Media 6 Miscellaneous 7 Other resources

Organizations

• British Institute of Butlers & Home Service Professionals
• The Butler Bureau
• Butler for You - example of an independent "Rent-a-Butler" business
• The International Guild of Professional Butlers
• The International Institute of Modern Butlers
• Wennekes International
• Estate Staffing by Heartland

Publications

• The Modern Butlers' Journal

Training

• The Australian Butler School
• The Butler Valet School - also see presentation on YouTube
• City & Guilds Diploma for Butlers
• Guild of Professional English Butlers
• The International Butler Academy - also see presentation on YouTube
• The International Institute of Modern Butlers
• Starkey International

Links to full text

• The House Servant's Directory by Robert Roberts
• Interludes being Two Essays, a Story, and Some Verses by Horace Smith
• Mrs. Beeton's Book of Household Management - see particularly Chapter 41, on Domestic Servants
• "Directions To Servants - Rules that concern All Servants in general" by Jonathan Swift

Media

• Day in the life of a modern butler
• John Collet’s "High Life Below Stairs"
• [Butler/Video|Video]

Miscellaneous

• The Butler's Wife - a blog by the wife of a career butler

Other resources

• "Butler" - entry about the surname from the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica
• Victorian Domestic Servant Hierarchy and Wage Scale
• "History 1450-1789: Servants" by Dr. MaryBeth Carlson
• Life in Elizabethan England (elizabethan.org):
  • Masters & Servants
  • The Steward and His Office
  • The Great House
  • Household Management