downtonising

Britain's nostalgia industry

Arthur Ransome, Brideshead Revisited, Call the Midwife, Downton Abbey, Downtonising, Harry Potter, Swallows and Amazons

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Ron Howard had a theory about why the US sitcom Happy Days was such a hit. The Oscar-winning director, who played Richie Cunningham in the show, argued that central to its appeal was that it was set in the 1950s, before Vietnam, drugs and hippies, when...

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