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Bonus Ep 33 - The ORIGINS of The Great English Country Houses

The British English Podcast

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Downton Abbey - The Houses of the Upper Classes

Downton Abbey was distinctly lacking in that as those those houses were at the time, there was a huge effort to segregate these houses. The servants themselves was segregated by their rank and by their gender. Any sort of sexual relations between unmarried people was strictly forbidden in almost every single major household. It's basically down to now be but just more sex.

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