摘要：

本论文主要通过对英国电视剧《唐顿庄园》的分析，将对其所涉及的英国相关历史文化进行研究分析。《唐顿庄园》由于其独特的时代背景，涉及了不少英国历史文化知识，如工业革命，财产继承权及一战前后英国社会的变革等，呈现给观众一个细致、全面直观的英国社会。根据研究目的和课题，通过调查文献来获得资料，对《唐顿庄园》中涉及到的研究对象与研究资料进行对照分析，从而获得研究成果。本文主要从社会背景，社会变革及贯穿整部剧的主要线索三方面进行分析，将二十世纪初期英国社会历史和文化呈现出来。

关键词：《唐顿庄园》 ；工业革命；社会变革；社会等级；妇女地位；新旧思想；

Abstract:

Through the analysis of the British TV series Downton Abbey, the related British history and culture are analyzed in this paper. Because of its unique historical background, Downton Abbey involves a lot of English history and cultural knowledge, such as the industrial revolution, entail and changes of British society before and after world war I, giving viewers a detailed and comprehensive British society. Through the investigation of literature according to the research purpose, I made a contrast analysis on research objects involved in Downton Abbey and research data to get results. This article mainly analyzes in three parts: the social background, social changes, the main clues through the series, and present the British social history and culture in the early 20th century.

Key words: Downton Abbey; industrial revolution; social changes; social classes; women’s status; new ideas and old ideas

1.    Introduction
 Downton Abbey, the most successful British drama series for a decade, has received critical acclaim from television critics and won numerous accolades. The series, set in the fictional Yorkshire country estate of Downton Abbey, depicts the lives the aristocratic Crawley family and their servants in the post-Edwardian era —with the great events in history having an effect on their lives and on the British social hierarchy. Such events depicted throughout the series include news of the sinking of the Titanic in the first series; the outbreak of the First World War, the Spanish influenza pandemic, and the Marconi scandal in the second series; the Interwar period and the formation of the Irish Free State in the third series; and the Teapot Dome scandal in the fourth series. If Downton Abbey was likened to a picture of British society at the beginning of the 20th century, it is of fine resemblance.