1. Visible and Glorious Household: From the later Middle Ages to the end of the Sixteenth Century -- 2. Beginning of the Back Stairs and the Servants' Hall: The Seventeenth Century -- 3. Household in the Age of Conspicuous Consumption: The Eighteenth Century -- 4. Behind the Green Baize Door: The Eighteenth Century -- 5. 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.
