The television series Downton Abbey has gained well-deserved popularity thanks to its thoughtful script, excellent acting, historical costumes and interiors, but most importantly, the carefully recreated spirit of the era of the early 20th century. Life in Great Britain at that time was full of contradictions. The country successfully mastered new technologies based on steam and electricity, and at the same time, most of the working population worked not in production, but as servants in private homes. Women were revered, but at the same time they were deprived of civil rights. The poor died of hunger, and the aristocracy did not live to see fifty because of too much and fatty food. About how these and many other contradictions of the daily life of the English were reflected in the television series “Downton Abbey”, which cinematographers created it, which actors performed it starring him, is revealed in the new book Downton Abbey. A story of pride and prejudice."