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Martin, Brian P., Tales of Old Gamekeepers (David & Charles), Newton Abbot, 1989

Musgrave, Toby, The Head Gardeners (Aurum Press), London, 2007

National Trust, The National Trust Manual of Housekeeping: The Care of Collections in Historic Houses Open to the Public (Butterworth and Heinemann), London, 2005

Nichols, Beverley, Down the Kitchen Sink (W.H. Allen), London, 1974

Powell, Margaret, Below Stairs (Pan Books), London, 1970

Powers, Alan, The Twentieth Century House in Britain (Aurum Press), London, 2004

Robinson, John Martin, The Latest Country Houses (Bodley Head), London, 1983

Sebald, W.G., The Rings of Saturn (Vintage), London, 2002

Sykes, Christopher Simon, The Big House: The Story of a Country House and its Family (Harper Perennial), London, 2005

Tyack, Geoffrey, Cliveden and the Astor Household Between the Wars, pamphlet, 1982

Worsthorne, Peregrine, Tricks of Memory (Weidenfeld and Nicolson), London, 1993

Table of Contents

Introduction

1. The Visible and Glorious Household From the later Middle Ages to the end of the Sixteenth Century

2. The Beginning of the Back Stairs and the Servants’ Hall The Seventeenth Century

3. The Household in the Age of Conspicuous Consumption The Eighteenth Century

4. Behind the Green Baize Door The Eighteenth Century

5. The Apogee The Nineteenth Century

6. Moving Up or Moving On The Nineteenth Century

7. In Retreat from a Golden Age The first half of the Twentieth century

8. Staying On: A Changing World The later Twentieth Century

Acknowledgements

Notes

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