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The Making of Downton Abbey

Join landscape historian Barbara Geiger who will answer questions about the aristocratic way of life in places like Downton  Abbey.  How did a few families get to own so much English property? Why did Robert’s family need him to marry an heiress like Cora?  Learn about the landscape designers, land ownership patterns, and inheritance laws that produced great estates like Downton, and why changes were inevitable.

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