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At the height of the glory of the British Empire, there was a family -- and though fictitious, this series conveys the pulse of the pinnacle of anglophilic "civilisation" back at the turn of the last century

A charming and eye-opening view at the decline of the gentry

Downton Abbey follows the household of an "heirless" nobleman at the turn of the 20th century, the in-house jostlings for position and the first-world-problems of the genteel. What struck me was the sheer number of servants and help required to "maintain" a manor, which made me wonder at the lives read more