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Life in The English Country House

A Social and Architectural History
Mark Girouard

The second chapter of this fascinating book gives a real insight into how the household of a castle worked at a social level. This book changed my view of the social status of servants dramatically.

Published by Yale University Press (1978)
ISBN: 0 300 02273 5

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