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Kelsall, Malcolm, Great Good Place: The Country House and English Literature (Columbia University Press), New York, 1994

Morrill, John, Revolt in the Provinces: The English People and the Tragedies of War 1634–1648, revised edn (Longman), London and New York, 1999

Parsons, Daniel (ed.), The Diary of Sir Henry Slingsby (Longman), London, 1836

Platt, Colin, The Great Rebuildings of Tudor and Stuart England: Revolutions in Architectural Taste (Routledge), London, 1994

Potter, Jennifer, Strange Blooms: The Curious Lives and Adventures of the John Tradescants (Atlantic), London, 2006

Purkiss, Diane, The English Civil War: A People’s History (Harper Perennial), London, 2007

Royle, Trevor, Civil War: The Wars of the Three Kingdoms 1638–1660 (Abacus), London, 2004

Scott-Thomson, Gladys, Life in a Noble Household 1641–1700 (Jonathan Cape), London, 1965

Sidebotham, Andrew, Brampton Bryan: Church and Castle, Brampton Bryan, 1990

Slater, Miriam, Family Life in the Seventeenth Century: The Verneys of Claydon House (Routledge & Kegan Paul), London, 1984

Steen, Sara-Jane (ed.), The Letters of Lady Arbella Stuart (Oxford University Press), Oxford, 1994

Steer, Francis (ed.), ‘Easton Lodge Inventory, 1637’, in Essex Review, Colchester, Vol. LXI, January 1952

Taylor-Lewis, Thomas (ed.), Letters of the Lady Brilliana Harley (Camden Society), London, 1854

Tomalin, Claire, Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self (Penguin), London, 2002

Verney, Sir Harry, The Verneys of Claydon: A Seventeenth-Century English Family (Robert Maxwell), London, 1968

Wall, Wendy, Staging Domesticity: Household Work and Identity in Early Modern Drama (Cambridge University Press), Cambridge, 1992

Whyman, Susan, Sociability and Power in Late-Stuart England: The Cultural Worlds of the Verneys 1660–1720 (Oxford University Press), Oxford, 1999

Woolley, Hannah, The Gentlewomans Companion (Maxwell), London, 1675

Worsley, Lucy, Cavalier: A Tale of Chivalry, Passion and Great Houses (Faber), London, 2007

THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY

Baird, Rosemary, Goodwood: Art and Architecture, Sport and Family (Frances Lincoln), London, 2007

Briggs, Asa (ed.), ‘How They Lived’, Vol. III (Basil Blackwell), Oxford, 1969

Christie, Christopher, The British Country House in the Eighteenth Century (Manchester University Press), Manchester, 2000

Clutton, George (Sir), ‘The Gardeners of the Eighth Lord Petre’, Essex Naturalist, Vol.32 (1967–71), pp. 201–210.

Collins-Baker, C.H., Life and Circumstances of James Brydges, First Duke of Chandos (Clarendon Press), Oxford, 1949

Dolan, Brian, Ladies of the Grand Tour (Flamingo), London, 2002

Glasse, Hannah, The Servants Directory, Improved, or, House-Keepers Companion (J. Potts), Dublin, 2nd edn, 1762

Gordon, Lyndall, Vindication: A Life of Mary Wollstonecraft (Virago), London, 2006

Hanway, Jonas, Eight Letters to His Grace the Duke of — on the custom of Vails-Giving in England, London, 1760

Hecht, Jean, The Domestic Servant Class in Eighteenth Century England (Routledge & Kegan Paul), London, 1956

Hill, Bridget, English Domestic Servants in the 18th Century (Oxford University Press), Oxford, 1996

Horn, Pamela, Flunkeys and Scullions: Life Below Stairs in Georgian England (Sutton Publishing), Stroud, 2004

King, Reyahr (et al), Ignatius Sancho: An African Man of Letters (National Portrait Gallery), London, 1997

Lehmann, Gilly, The British Housewife: Cookery Books, Cooking and Society in Eighteenth-Century Britain (Prospect Books), Totnes, 2003

Little, Kenneth, Negroes in Britain: A Study of Racial Relations in English Society (Routledge & Kegan Paul), London, 1947

Macarthey, Patricia, ‘Vails and Travails: how Lord Kildare kept his household in order’, in Irish Architectural and Decorative Studies, Vol.IV (2003), pp. 120–39.

Macdonald, John, Memoirs of an Eighteenth-Century Footman (Century Publishing), London, 1985

Mitchell, L.G. (ed.), The Purefoy Letters (Sidgwick & Jackson), London, 1973