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The Dark Truth About English Country Houses | Book Huddle with Aneeta Madhavan
Those gorgeous English country houses you see on Downton Abbey? Turns out they were built on the backs of enslaved people. Aneeta Madhavan joins me to discuss The Countryside by Corrine Fowler - which takes us on walks through Britain's most "English" places + reveals where the money actually came from. Spoiler: sugar plantations, slavery + colonial exploitation. We chat about how this book made Aneeta rethink global connectedness in business, what it's like being a British Indian after Brexit + why many quintessentially British things aren't as British as you'd think. Plus, how this all…
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