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If You Like...Downton Abbey |
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The Grand
Follows the trials and tribulations of the owners, staff, and guests of the 1920's Grand Hotel in Manchester, England.
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Berkeley Square
Three young nannies grow to be close friends as they manage the unpredictable road to love and happiness in the posh world of turn-of-the-century, upper-crust London.
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Call the Midwife
In 1957, twenty-two year old Jenny leaves her home to become a midwife in a deprived nursing convent helping poor pregnant mothers coping with harsh living conditions.
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Cranford
Follows the adventures of the people in the English town of Cranford over the course of a year.
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Crimson Field
Follows the adventures of doctors and nurses working in a field tent hospital during World War I.
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Doctor Thorne
The life of penniless Mary Thorne, who grows up with her Uncle, Dr. Thorne, and her relationship with the family at nearby Greshamsbury Park estate.
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The Forsyte Saga
The story of Soames Forsyte, a solicitor and the wealthy head of a middle-class family in London during the nineteenth century.
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Lark Rise to Candleford
Depicts country life in late nineteenth-century Oxfordshire through a young woman's experiences in the contrasting communities of Lark Rise, the small hamlet of her childhood, and Candleford, a progressive market town.
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Lilies
Three very different sisters find ways to support their family in 1920's Britain
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Mr. Selfridge
Depicts the story of American entrepreneur Harry Gordon Selfridge, the founder of Selfridge's, London's department store
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North & South
When the privileged Margaret Hale's father uproots the family to take work in the northern mill town of Milton, she is shocked by the dirt and gruffness of the people. But she reserves her highest contempt for the charismatic mill-owner John Thornton.
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The Paradise
Follows the lives of those who work, shop, and trade at the first English department store, Paradise, in 1875.
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Poldark
After the American Revolutionary War, Ross Poldark returns to England and attempts to rebuild his life.
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Upstairs Downstairs: Season 1
In turn-of-the-century London, a family of Edwardian aristocrats and their servants live and work together through great societal changes.
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Upstairs, Downstairs
A modern continuation of the 1970s classic. After a new family moves into the house belonging to the Bellamys, the former housemaid hires a new staff for the family and the aristocrats and their servants try to find a way to peacefully share their living space.
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Wives and Daughters
Set in an early nineteenth-century, gossip-driven English town, seventeen-year-old Molly Gibson faces a world of change when her long-widowed physician father remarries
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St Charles Public Library
Temporary Address: 305 S. 9th Street.
St Charles, Illinois 60174
630-584-0076http://www.scpld.org/ |
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