Downton Abbey

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• 6/12/18
  

  It’s No Downton Abbey, but It’s Just as Much a Part of English History

  by Jennifer Tucker

  Widnes, where the Royals are visiting this week, was where the chemical industry was founded during the Industrial Revolution.

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• 1-19-18
  

  The 1920s Downton Abbey Television Series Scores as a Touring Exhibit

  by Bruce Chadwick

  Experience what it was like to live like the people in Downtown Abbey.

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• 3-22-15
  

  “Downton Abbey’s” Racial First

  by Pearl Duncan

  It was brave, but a lot more can be made of the historical material Julian Fellowes can work with—if he dares.

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• 1-13-14
  

  The Politics and Popularity of "Downton Abbey"

  by Gregory Kosc and Kallie Kosc

  The real reasons why Americans can’t get enough of the hit TV show.

• SOURCE: Politic365
  5-7-13
  

  Pearl Duncan: Lost History in Downton Abbey

  Pearl Duncan is completing two books, tentatively titled, “DNA Adventure, Rebels’ Birthright Reclaimed,” and “A Pirate Ship of Old New York:  Colonial Slavery, The Founding Fathers and a Remarkable 9/11 Discovery.”Now that it is announced by the producers of Downton Abbey that Gary Carr, the star of the BBC’s Death in Paradise, a mystery set on a Caribbean island, will join the show as an attractive, charming and charismatic jazz musician, some viewers who love the popular British television show set in the 1920s, flushed with Edwardian style, fashion and upstairs downstairs shenanigans, ask if the show will continue to be historically accurate.  Why do they ask?  They ask because the jazz musician being added to a show about British aristocrats and their servants is black.

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• Downton Abbey at Inverary: A History of Scotland's Most English Castle

  by Jonathan Gross

  Downton Abbey filming near Inverary Castle last summer. Source: Argyll News.Inverary Castle, the location for last week’s season finale of Downton Abbey (I promise, there are no spoilers in this essay!), is a gothic mansion that harbors many a tale, beyond those dreamed up by Julian Fellowes’ period drama set in post-Edwardian England. An hour’s drive from Glasgow, Inverary is the ancestral home of the Dukes of Argyll, who made their reputation through loyalty to the King of England.

• SOURCE: Cornell Universty Tumblr
  1-14-13
  

  America’s own Downton Abbey: Five history lessons based on the series by Katherine Howe

  With the American premier of Downton Abbey, season three, here are five history lessons based on the popular television series provided by Katherine Howe, author and lecturer of American studies at Cornell University. The paperback of Howe’s novel, “The House of Velvet and Glass,” takes place in the same time period and will be released on Jan. 29 by Hyperion/Voice.The real women behind Cora, Countess of Grantham and her mother, Martha Levinson