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Sky here with another episode of the History and Plug podcast.

England's massive country manners, which most Americans know from Downton Abbey,

were originally built to house the noble families that ran massive agricultural estates

formed in the medieval and early modern periods.

But by the end of the 19th century, members of elite society found themselves for the first time in the company of new arrivals.

Thanks to changes in British property law, anyone with enough money can buy these landed manners, including wealthy merchants from the British colonies, sons and daughters of the American Gilded Elite, and lots of other newcomers unencumbered by the way of tradition.

These newcomers added all sorts

of newfangled inventions to their houses, including glass-roof marble swimming pools,

elevators, thousands of electric lights. So there was a huge clash here between old-world aristocracy

and new money. In today's episode, I'm speaking to Adrian Tenniswood, author of The Power and the

Glory, Life in the English Country House before the Great War. He reconstructs life in the country, during its golden age,

before the First World War, when Britain ruled over a quarter of the Earth's population,

and its stately homes, who are at their most extravagant. But we see the change happening

at the same time, when Lama classes were being forced to grappled not only with their new

neighbors, but also with new social norms and expectations,

but why this age came to a decisive end after the carnage of the First World War.

Hope you enjoyed this episode.

And one more thing before we get started with this episode,

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