Downton Abbey & The British Class System
British TV Watchlist · Michael T-British TV Super Fan
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Show Notes
In this episode, Michael T explores the British class system through the lens of Downton Abbey. Discover how legal mechanisms like the entail kept wealth concentrated in aristocratic hands, why manners became weapons of social control, and how servants and their masters lived in rigidly separated worlds. From feudalism to the Industrial Revolution, learn how this "most class-ridden society under the sun" shaped the modern world—and why it still matters in Britain today. Plus: the other classic British dramas that captured the upstairs-downstairs divide.
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