Up and down stairs : the history of the country house servant / Jeremy Musson.
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- 184854300X
- 9781848543003
- 9781848543003:
- 640.460942
Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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General Lending | Wexford Campus Library Wexford General Lending | 640.460942 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 80502 |
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CW098
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The visible and glorious household : from the late Middle Ages to the end of the sixteenth century -- The beginning of the back stairs and the servants' hall : the seventeenth century -- The household in the age of conspicuous consumption : the eighteenth century -- Behind the green baize door : the eighteenth century -- The apogee : the nineteenth century -- Moving up or moving on : the nineteenth century -- In retreat from a golden age : the first half of the twentieth century -- Staying on : a changing world : the later twentieth century.
A history that brings to live the real country house servants. From the Middle Ages to the twentieth century, this is a fascinating history of country house servants. Brings to life this hierarchy and shows how large numbers of people lived together under strict segregation and how it was sometimes broken.
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