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Our new exhibit in the departmental cases is now open. It focuses on the ITV\/PBS series Downton Abbey<\/em>, which is currently in its second season on Masterpiece Theater. The exhibition can be viewed on the third floor of the Main Library anytime the building is open. The items on display include books mentioned in the dialogue from the show, as well as books on household customs, World War I, and the English aristocracy, all selected to bring the era depicted in the show to life.<\/p>\n Special thanks are due to Pete Balestrieri for conducting the research for the exhibition.<\/p>\n Here is a list of the items in the exhibition. An asterisk means the title or author was mentioned in dialogue from the series.<\/p>\n Elisabeth Balch, Glimpses of Old English Homes<\/em>, 1890<\/p>\n Mrs. Beeton’s Book of Household Management<\/em>, 1861<\/p>\n *Burke’s Landed Gentry<\/em>, 1937<\/p>\n *Elizabeth von Arnim, Elizabeth and Her German Garden<\/em>, 1900<\/p>\n *Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World<\/em>, 1912<\/p>\n *H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds<\/em>, 1898<\/p>\n *Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows<\/em>, 1940 edition<\/p>\n *Photoplay<\/em> magazine, 1919<\/p>\n *J.A.R. Marriott, England Since Waterloo<\/em>, 1918<\/p>\n *G.A. Henty, St. George for England: A Tale of Cressy and Poitiers<\/em>, 1900<\/p>\n Journal des dames et des modes<\/em>, 1914<\/p>\n English Illustrated Magazine<\/em>, 1912<\/p>\n Play Pictorial<\/em>, 1916<\/p>\n Florence Hull Winterburn, Principles of Correct Dress<\/em>, 1914<\/p>\n John Buchan, Battle of the Somme<\/em>, 1915<\/p>\n Edmund Blunden, Undertones of War<\/em>, 1928<\/p>\n Hallie Eustace Miles, Economy in War Time<\/em>, 1915<\/p>\n Illustrated War News<\/em>, 1916<\/p>\n Baron Dunsany, Tales of War<\/em>, 1918<\/p>\n Siegfried Sassoon, Memoirs of an Infantry Officer<\/em>, 1930<\/p>\n The Sinn Fein Rebellion Handbook, 1917<\/p>\n Edmund Blunden, manuscript letter to Cambridge Magazine<\/em> and draft of the poem “The Hawthorn Lane,” 1917<\/p>\n Illustrated London News<\/em>, 1923 (depicting the discovery of the Tomb of Tutankhamen by Lord Carnarvon of Highclere Castle, the English country house where Downton Abbey<\/em> is filmed).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Our new exhibit in the departmental cases is now open. It focuses on the ITV\/PBS series Downton Abbey, which is currently in its second season on Masterpiece Theater. The exhibition can be viewed on the third floor of the Main Library anytime the building is open. The items on display include books mentioned in theContinue reading “Books in the World of Downton Abbey”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":130,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"syndication":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/130"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=422"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6231,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422\/revisions\/6231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422"},{"taxonomy":"syndication","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/syndication?post=422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}