AFrom the Ashworth Etiquette channel
What to say, what to do and what to leave unsaid in every room you walk into: names and titles, conversation, tipping in 2026, weddings and funerals, phones and email, work, and the moments that go wrong.
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A note from Charles
For years the Ashworth Etiquette channel has looked at the quiet code the old families lived by: understatement, keeping your word, and the small courtesies that make people glad to see you come through the door. The videos show the idea. There's never time in them for the exact words, the amounts and the order of things.
This book is where all of that went. Open it the night before the wedding, the funeral or the interview, and keep the rest for the next time it comes up.
Charles Ashworth
Manners · Ashworth Etiquette
The quiet code the old families lived by: presence, names and titles, conversation, money and gifts, eating out, weddings and funerals, dress codes, phones and email, work, travel, family, and what to do when things go wrong. With forms of address, tipping and dress codes at a glance, and an index of exact wordings for the hard moments.
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The set adds three more books and a free guide to Etiquette: the table, the house, the wardrobe and the antiques. Each one works on its own.
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How the old houses set a table, served a dinner and looked after their guests. Settings drawn to scale, ten menus you make ahead with 52 recipes, the wording for every note, and full Thanksgiving and Christmas plans.
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How to give the home you have the quiet character of an old house: light, paint, proportions, secondhand furniture and the care of wood, brass and old materials, with plans for $50, $500 and $5,000.
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The old-money wardrobe: no logos, the right fit and a few pieces of real quality. The twelve pieces, what a tailor can fix, shoes that last decades, buying secondhand, and plans for $200, $1,000 and $3,000.
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Where good pieces still turn up, how to read wood and joinery, the marks on silver and brass, and the reproductions most often sold as old. Useful for gifts, too: how to tell a good old piece from a reproduction before you buy it.
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No. Most of the book is everyday: being on time, phones at the table, texting, tipping, neighbors and family. The formal occasions are there for when they come up.
Yes, manners in the United States in 2026. There's a chapter on manners in other countries for when you travel.
The Table is hosting: setting the table, serving, menus and the manners of your own dinner. Etiquette is everything else: how you behave as a guest, at work, in public and when things go wrong. Together they're $47 instead of $66.
The Ashworth Table (setting the table, serving, menus and hosting) and Ashworth Etiquette (manners as a guest, at work, in public and when things go wrong). Two PDFs, one payment: $47 instead of $66.
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