Tory Nation: The Dark Legacy of the World's Most Successful Political Party
by Samuel Earle · 3 May 2023 · 245pp · 88,158 words
the present day are hard to come by. On the whole, major releases range from blue-blooded dramas – The Queen, The King’s Speech, two Downton Abbey movies, and, more playfully, The Favourite – to wartime epics: Darkest Hour, Dunkirk and 1917, stories that stage historic battles from which Britain emerges not so
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by Paul Gilroy, 1985 On Sunday 8 November 2015, more than 11 million people in the UK tuned in to watch the series finale of Downton Abbey, ITV’s hit drama about the eponymous estate, its upper-class inhabitants and their small army of servants. The story is set in the early
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1900s, at a time of aristocratic decline and social instability. But amid all the change and uncertainty, Downton Abbey evokes a utopian, quintessentially English idyll: a world where people are polite, the rich recognise their responsibilities and the poor gratefully accept their lot in
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life. In one scene from Downton Abbey: The Movie (2019), the eldest of the Countess’ daughters, Lady Mary Crawley, ponders whether the time has come for the family to downsize. ‘What am
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tell you what you’re doing m’lady, you’re making a centre for the people who work here, for this village, for the county. Downton Abbey is the beating heart of this community and you’re keeping it beating.’ This ‘one nation’ vision of Britain – proud, happy and harmonious despite vast
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sympathetic treatments of the old governing class were aptly rewarded with a peerage from David Cameron. Lord Fellowes of West Stafford now inhabits his own Downton Abbey fantasy: he is married to the great-grandniece of the first Lord Kitchener of Khartoum, boasts a sprawling seventeenth-century country estate and has a
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a cornerstone of Britain’s tourism industry, frequented by citizens and tourists alike, and represent the dream location for most couples planning a wedding. Besides Downton Abbey, which at its peak was watched by over a seventh of the total population, the nation’s other favourite television shows typically offer pleasing escapes
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thirty new series of period dramas, either produced or set in the UK.3 This vision of Britain is also one of our finest exports. Downton Abbey gained an audience of 120 million worldwide, making it the most successful British television show of all time.4 But even
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Downton Abbey’s success pales next to the popularity of Britain’s most beloved period drama, one that is confoundingly contemporary: the British monarchy. In 2011, over
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population – about 24 million people – tuned in to watch the marriage of Britain’s future King and Queen, Prince William and Kate Middleton. As with Downton Abbey, support for the royal family – described by pollsters in 2011 as ‘probably the most stable trend we have ever measured’5 – offers another clue to
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in zeros that define our net worth. She was a symbol of harmony and permanence. This unifying aspect of monarchy is the main theme of Downton Abbey: The Movie. When the Queen announces her intention to visit the estate, everyone – upstairs and downstairs, the earl and his footman, the countess and the
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don’t care enough about ideas to suffer their consequences.’14 Common sense is the nation’s compass; hard work will see us through. As Downton Abbey’s cook reprimands her assistant, who is mouthing off about the royal family from Downton’s dark kitchen-basement: ‘Less philosophy, more elbow grease.’ Echoed
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fused with the capitalists, did the old governing class learn to champion an up-by-your-bootstraps optimism. Before then, the Conservatives’ message was more Downton Abbey than American Dream: accept your place, fulfil your purpose and appreciate what you have. After swallowing liberalism, however, Conservatives discovered that ‘personal responsibility’ provided a
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Downton creator’, Daily Telegraph, 11 September 2015. 3 ‘33 new British TV period drama series to watch in 2019’, British Period Dramas. 4 Jane Mattisson, ‘Downton Abbey: a Cultural Phenomenon. History for the Many’, SIC, no. 1, year 5, December 2014. 5 Mark Easton, ‘Why does the UK love the monarchy?’, BBC
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–5 Domville, Admiral Sir Barry 136 donors 34, 219, 239, 250, 251–2, 256 Douglas-Home, Sir Alec 69–70, 92 Downton Abbey (television series) 95–7, 98–9, 103, 117 Downton Abbey: The Movie 11, 95–6, 98–9 Duncan Smith, Iain 96, 186 Economist 2, 82, 103, 210, 212, 265 economy/economics
The Internet Is Not the Answer
by Andrew Keen · 5 Jan 2015 · 361pp · 81,068 words
privileged one percent of our two-tiered networked age. Rather than a village pub, it’s a nonfictional version of the nostalgic British television series Downton Abbey—a place of feudal excess and privilege. Had Churchill joined the Birches’ social experiment, he certainly would have found himself among some of the world
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THE CATASTROPHE OF ABUNDANCE The Narrow Stump I grew up in England. No, not the England of Winston Churchill’s exclusive gentleman’s clubs or Downton Abbey’s bucolic aristocracy and their unnaturally cheerful servants. Rather than a nostalgic costume drama, my England was London. And my London was Soho—the square
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up in the swinging London of the late sixties and seventies, I got to see a much more entertaining show in Soho than anything a Downton Abbey–style TV drama could muster. My family was in the rag trade and owned a store on the edge of Soho, so I had the
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explaining how his “free” Megaupload platform, which enabled the sharing of stolen property, generated the legal revenue to enable him to buy his £15 million Downton Abbey–style mansion in the New Zealand countryside.20 But while uberpirates like Kim Dotcom hold much of the responsibility for the decimation of the recorded
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event planner who organized Sean Parker’s $10 million Lord of the Rings fantasy wedding and who is a big fan of television dramas like Downton Abbey that glorify two-tier societies.63 After lunch, I took a tour of the Battery, which, with its not-so-secret poker room and its
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rise of the new global superrich and the fall of everyone else, has a compelling explanation of why fantasists like Fulk find nostalgic dramas like Downton Abbey so seductive. It’s a contemporaneous show, she argues, because there is a “profound similarity between the vast economic, social, and political changes that drive
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the action in ‘Downton Abbey’ and our own time.”65 In our digital age of perpetual creative destruction, Freeland says, technology companies like Google, Uber, and Facebook are, on the
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both feet after walking for miles on the warehouse’s concrete floor. But there is one important difference between Downton Abbey and Silicon Valley, Freeland reminds us. “With their lavish lifestyles, the aristocrats of ‘Downton Abbey’ may seem like a 20th-century version of our own plutocrats, but they are not,” she says, because
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today’s “aristocracy of talent” have “all the perks and few of the traditional values” of the old Downton Abbey aristocracy.”66 And so, in the Silicon Valley of 2014, there are all the social and economic hierarchies of 1914 without any of what Freeland
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calls “the social constraints” of the old aristocracy. We have Downton Abbey reinvented as the Battery. We have secession fantasies and $130 million yachts as long as football fields and billionaire uberlibertarians with staffs of black-clad
The Platinum Age of Television: From I Love Lucy to the Walking Dead, How TV Became Terrific
by David Bianculli · 15 Nov 2016 · 676pp · 203,386 words
16 War Combat! M*A*S*H China Beach Band of Brothers Generation Kill 17 Miniseries Roots The Singing Detective Lonesome Dove The Civil War Downton Abbey Profile Ken Burns 18 Topical Comedy That Was the Week That Was The Daily Show with Jon Stewart The Colbert Report Last Week Tonight with
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all television now—you can see really good writing. I mean really good writing…I love Breaking Bad. I love The Good Wife. I love Downton Abbey. I love Justified. I think these are wonderful. There are others, too, but these come to mind, and pop up, right away. They are ones
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KEY EVOLUTIONARY STAGES Roots 1977, ABC The Singing Detective 1986, BBC; 1988, PUBLIC TV (U.S.) Lonesome Dove 1989, CBS The Civil War 1990, PBS Downton Abbey 2010–15, ITV (U.K.); 2011–16, PBS Television in this century has rediscovered, and revived, the long-form TV drama—a fairly recent rebirth
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1969, it became public television’s first must-see costume drama. In the States as well as abroad, it was that era’s equivalent of Downton Abbey: an upstairs/downstairs melodrama affording not only a peek behind the closed doors of the wealthy but a peek below, to the servants’ quarters, as
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, in 2004; Bleak House, starring Gillian Anderson as Lady Dedlock in a flawless version of the Charles Dickens novel, in 2005; and, beginning in 2011, Downton Abbey, the lavish miniseries that brought the whole genre full circle, back to the earliest days of The Forsyte Saga and Upstairs, Downstairs
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. DOWNTON ABBEY 2010–15, ITV (U.K.); 2011–16, PBS. Creator and writer: Julian Fellowes. Stars: Hugh Bonneville, Elizabeth McGovern, Maggie Smith, Michelle Dockery, Jim Carter, Brendan
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Smith, who would act out the words and actions of Fellowes again, nine years later, when she was featured in his newest TV costume drama, Downton Abbey. By the time Downton came to television, the once-ubiquitous period dramas were all but a thing of the past, in more ways than one
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. But Downton Abbey, whose narrative began in 1912 with news of the sinking of the Titanic and ended six TV seasons later with the arrival of New Year
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its last, when it presented a finale that served almost every character fittingly, ending the lengthy story with a tear, a smile, and a song. Downton Abbey caught on with the viewing public the same way Upstairs, Downstairs had several decades earlier. Class differences, superb acting, and elements of soap opera still
Thinking About It Only Makes It Worse: And Other Lessons From Modern Life
by David Mitchell · 4 Nov 2014 · 354pp · 99,690 words
entertaining when you’re supposed to be working. And just look at the wonders of the old media’s Jurassic ecosystem: from daytime TV to Downton Abbey, from Harry Potter to Homer Simpson, from Lewis to Endeavour, there’s never been more to doze off in front of. 3 Don’t Expect
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late of the soap-based booby trap she’d laid for her mistress? (And if you haven’t watched either Return of the Jedi or Downton Abbey, then I’m bang out of cultural references that you’re going to get.) No. The BBC is actually claiming that watching daytime TV constitutes
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a duck feel the Force. * Laura Carmichael deserves to be congratulated. Few actors have achieved her kind of success. Her portrayal of Lady Edith in Downton Abbey is so effective, and so affecting, that the character has started to become real. Not just to seem real to people watching television, but actually
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occasion of her West End debut playing another role in no way diminishes the achievement. You may not be familiar with Lady Edith, or with Downton Abbey at all. Even if you are, you may pretend not to be. It’s not a particularly respectable show to admit to watching. Or is
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to these elements of television production which I previously considered vital to a drama’s success – or certainly its enjoyability. Yet I undoubtedly do enjoy Downton Abbey, and not “because it’s so terrible”. I unironically enjoy it despite how bad it is. Is that what they call cognitive dissonance? Or is
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implausible words and actions in the script into a believable character. Lady Edith is the second daughter of the Earl of Grantham, who owns Downton Abbey (which is where Downton Abbey is set – it is not a real abbey, so he is not an abbot), and she has a very rough time. The plainer
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the resulting confusion were not in any way related to Uncle Vanya.” I believe him because I think they were in every way related to Downton Abbey – and Lady Edith. Sir Peter’s unconscious mutterings make it very clear that he is a regular viewer and has been utterly captivated by Carmichael
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Strangelove 1 Doctors 1 dogs, dyed to look like other animals as solution to biodiversity crisis 1 Double Falsehood 1 Dowler, Milly 1 Downfall 1 Downton Abbey 1, terribleness and enjoyability of 1, 2 Duffy, Lisa 1 East Midlands, laudable self-loathing of 1 EasyJet 1, 2 Ebdon, Peter, similarity to Vladimir
Squeezed: Why Our Families Can't Afford America
by Alissa Quart · 25 Jun 2018 · 320pp · 90,526 words
home lives ran in parallel to an expansive, simulated world on the screen. What was popular back then was the 1 percent TV heritage drama Downton Abbey, which featured the Crawleys, an aristocratic British family in the earlier part of the twentieth century whose dramatic entrances in frock coats and devoré dresses
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future regents were looked after by governesses while their parents partied and dined. (And I was not alone: the final episode of Downton Abbey drew 9.6 million American viewers.) On Downton Abbey, the “downstairs” servant class is unruly and often downright evil: in the first season, I watched, while pregnant, a male servant
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plot to have her pregnant mistress trip on a bar of soap so that she would lose the baby. In contrast, the aristocrats are benign. Downton Abbey turned the elaborately set tables of yesteryear’s Upstairs, Downstairs, a PBS hit and British import that ran in the 1970s and was fonder of
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feel like you get a ‘real’ glimpse into an uber-intelligent (though morally flawed) super-rich hedge funder,” wrote another. As one citizen reviewer of Downton Abbey with the fitting handle workingmom29609 put it, “It’s wonderful to escape to the life of the landed rich.” I like to watch 1 percent
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Income Affect Your Happiness?” (Firebaugh and Schroeder), 91 Doherty, Thomas, 217 Do What You Love (Tokumitsu), 39 “Do what you love” mantra, 38–40, 60 Downton Abbey (TV show), 209, 210 Dreiser, Theodore, 180 Driverless trucks, 227, 230–32, 247 Druckerman, Pamela, 25 Duke University, 54, 216 Dynasty (TV show), 222 Earned
Mine!: How the Hidden Rules of Ownership Control Our Lives
by Michael A. Heller and James Salzman · 2 Mar 2021 · 332pp · 100,245 words
may be hard to imagine today, in an important sense, the family was the owner, not any individual member. Think about the popular TV series Downton Abbey. Set in England just before World War I, the story centers on Robert Crawley, Earl of Grantham, whose landed estate supports his family’s refined
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rich. Historically, aristocrats like Robert could not vary this outcome by writing a will. Because Robert has three daughters but no son, upon his death Downton Abbey will go automatically to Matthew Crawley, a distant third cousin and closest male heir who is (horror!) a middle-class lawyer in Manchester. Even worse
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wife, Cora) has been caught up in the family ownership dilemma. The large dowry she brought from New York has become inextricably part of the Downton Abbey estate under old “coverture” rules (noted in Chapter 5). When Robert dies, Cora’s money, necessary for the estate’s upkeep, goes to Matthew as
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. And it left out younger brothers—they were shipped away to the military and the ministry. The rules even affected Julian Fellowes, the creator of Downton Abbey. Fellowes’s wife, Emma Kitchener, could not inherit her uncle Earl Kitchener’s title. Because the earl had no male descendants, the title would die
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family ownership rules that supported hereditary aristocracy. Entailment was substantially abolished. Primogeniture was never part of American law. The Constitution explicitly forbids “titles of nobility.” Downton Abbey has an American audience, but it is not an American story. As a historian observed, “Of all the potential perils to the new American republic
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came around on this point, abolishing both entailment and primogeniture in the 1920s and, following World War II, imposing a heavy inheritance tax. The real Downton Abbeys of the day were forced to sell their family holdings or become museums to afford “death duties,” as the taxes were called there. By the
Who Owns England?: How We Lost Our Green and Pleasant Land, and How to Take It Back
by Guy Shrubsole · 1 May 2019 · 505pp · 133,661 words
road were similarly craven. The Earl of Carnarvon, owner of Highclere Castle to the south of Newbury – made famous as the setting of the series Downton Abbey – told conservationist Charles Clover that ‘he had been behind a bypass for the past 40 years’, but admitted that he ‘did not know how much
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, Gustav 214 Dorset, Maiden Castle 59 Douglas-Home, Alec 102 Dover 235–7 Dover Immigration Removal Centre 236–7 Downe, Richard Dawnay, 12th Viscount 248n Downton Abbey (TV series) 9 Drax, Richard (Richard Grosvenor Plunkett-Ernle-Drax) 21 Driver, Alasdair 247, 280–1 Drove Committees 216 Dubai, Sheikh of 111 Duchy of
The Rough Guide to England
by Rough Guides · 29 Mar 2018
touches such as widescreen TVs, above a fine bar/restaurant, and right opposite the cathedral. The street can be noisy at night. £120 The Real Downton Abbey Tucked away in the northern reaches of Hampshire, twenty miles north of Winchester, Highclere Castle (9.30am–5pm: Easter, early April & May bank hol weekends
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gardens £22, castle and gardens £15, gardens £7; 01635 253210, highclerecastle.co.uk) will be very familiar to fans of ITV’s hit period drama, Downton Abbey, which was filmed here. Home to Lord Carnarvon and his family, the house is approached via a long drive that winds through a stunning 5000
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-acre estate, and is surrounded by beautiful gardens designed by Capability Brown. Inside the house, Downton Abbey aficionados will enjoy loitering in the Drawing Room and the Library, scene of many a drama and quivering stiff-upper-lip of Lord Grantham and
A Generation of Sociopaths: How the Baby Boomers Betrayed America
by Bruce Cannon Gibney · 7 Mar 2017 · 526pp · 160,601 words
luxury voyeurism, a phenomenon that began in 1984 with the Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous and continued through the various Real Housewives series and Downton Abbey. The last is at least nakedly fictional, though no less bizarre for it: an antimodern melodrama of entitled toffs, stately homes, and dubious-though-usually
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work arrangements” (emphasis original; in a recent update, the authors revised “all” to a no-less-unsettling “94 percent”).17 And this returns us to Downton Abbey—before World War I, huge numbers of English were employed “in service,” thanks to social inertia, inequality, and technological change. With gigs, this is happening
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-first-century America can be at least as progressive as Edwardian Britain. Why, precisely, do the senior viewers of PBS care so much about how Downton Abbey will survive the predations of Lloyd George and his death duties? Because Boomers have their own McDowntons to worry about. Even before they change hands
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restaurants. Meanwhile, there are few more quintessentially English things to do while you’re in the Cotswolds than to visit a country house, with their Downton Abbey associations, Farrow & Ball paint schemes and cream teas. And as you pull up to Sezincote House,1 set on high ground on a 4,500
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the complex ways empire might have influenced such houses by using the example of the fictional house at the heart of the popular TV show Downton Abbey: the family patriarch is a Boer War veteran, as is his valet; the very first dish mentioned is the Anglo-Indian creation of kedgeree; the
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Touching the Discoverie of America (Hakluyt) 41 Dombey and Son (Dickens) 95 Dongte 50 Donne, John 98 Dowden, Oliver 62, 210 Downer, Alex 110–11 Downton Abbey (TV series) 128 Drake-Brockman, Brigadier-General 21 Draper, Nick 139–40 Drayton, Richard 124 Drescher, Seymour 130, 140 drugs 15 drunkenness 91–3 Duck
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