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u/[deleted] · 6 pointsr/AskHistorians

I do believe this is the book you're looking for. There is most definitely a correlation between the two.

u/that_cad · 4 pointsr/AskHistorians

I have nothing to contribute to this excellent comment other than to recommend that the OP read The Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy, which is an excellent book that answers this very question.

u/voyeur324 · 2 pointsr/AskHistorians

Maybe Richard Shannon's two-volume biography?

Gladstone: Peel's Inheritor, 1809-1865 (1982)

Gladstone: Heroic Minister, 1865-1898 (1999)

See also David Cannadine's Victorious Century (2017) and his book The Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy (1990), part of the AskHistorians booklist. There are countless threads in this subreddit about the Victorian Era.

u/tenent808 · 2 pointsr/AskHistorians

This is the book I would recommend as a starting point to the subject. It is The Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy by David Cannadine.

The premise is that it was a combination of the Industrial Revolution, the rise of popular democracy, and the effects of two world wars that led to the British nobility losing so much of their hold over the country in less than a century.

I would add that you really can't underestimate the effect of the First World War on that transformation. First, it was an opportunity for the lower classes to see how completely inept many of their supposed social superiors were, in ineptly leading them into a seemingly pointless and incredibly bloody war. Secondly, the crippling debt incurred by Britain during the war and the ensuing economic crisis. And thirdly, many of the young officers in the British Army during the First World War were scions of the nobility, and the casualty rate among those officers was severe. While the phrase "Lost Generation" might be a bit much, it is not going too far to say that the loss of so many future Dukes, Earls, Viscounts, and Peers did have an effect on the break up of the British Aristocracy.

u/L_Cranston_Shadow · 1 pointr/MapPorn

I'll note of course that even the truths that existed in the fictionalization took a very small part of what was going on during the time and made it fit the series, and also that I'm not an expert (I would however strongly recommend The Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy by David Cannadine).
From my point of view, there is something to be said for the stability of the estates, as well as the the fact that they generally are architecturally and architecturally important. When an estate went under, what occurred was essentially a fire sale, pieces being sold off piece by piece. There is also very much a labor demand created by these, now 100+ year old estates to keep them up to date, and to now make them tourism attractions (which helps pay for the upkeep). I'm not sure that's really an elegant defense of estates, but just a few things that quickly come to the top of my head as examples.