11 Costume Dramas to Fill the Downton Abbey-Sized Hole in Your Heart

Downton Abbey fans said goodbye to their beloved Crawleys last night, but that doesn't mean time-traveling to an earlier era (with better clothes) must end as the doors of Downton close. Below, a selection of period shows to make Downton's farewell a bit easier to handle. 

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Mercy Street

PBS's newest original series is based on the writings of nurses and doctors who worked inside Mansion House Hospital in Alexandria, Virginia during the Civil War. It chronicles the lives and work of two nurses: Mary Phinney (Mary Elizabeth Winstead), a New England abolitionist and widow, and Emma Green (Hannah James), whose family home is turned into a Union-run hospital during the war.

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Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries

Essie Davis plays Phryne Fisher, an amateur detective with strong feminist views and a wardrobe to die for in 1920s Melbourne.

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Call the Midwife

Call the Midwife chronicles the work of Jenny Lee (Jessica Raine) and her fellow midwives as they tend to expectant mothers and newborns in London's impoverished East End in the 1950s.

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Outlander

While vacationing with her husband in the Scottish Highlands following the devastation of World War II, British Army nurse Claire Randall falls through a mysterious set of Stonehenge-esque stones and finds herself in the midst of warring Scottish clans in 1743.

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Mr. Selfridge

Where did iconic British department store Selfridges get its start? With American entrepreneur Harry Gordon Selfridge (Jeremy Piven), who sets out to transform the "dead end" of London's Oxford Street into a mecca of fashion and luxury.

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A Place to Call Home

After World War II, nurse Sarah Adams returns to her hometown in New South Wales after 20 years spent in Europe.

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Ripper Street

When a slew of murdered women are discovered in London's Whitechapel district, a group of detectives must determine if Jack the Ripper has returned.

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Poldark

After fighting in the Revolutionary War, British soldier Ross Poldark returns to Cornwall, where he learns of his father's death and his fiancée's engagement to his cousin.

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War and Peace

Based on Leo Tolstoy's epic novel, this six-part series follows three young Russians (Paul Dano, Lily James and James Norton) as their lives are changed forever by Napoleon's invasion of Russia.

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Peaky Blinders

In post-World War I Birmingham, England, a gang known as the Peaky Blinders wreaks havoc under the leadership of the menacing Tommy Shelby (Cillian Murphy).

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The Knick

Stephen Soderbergh directs this medical drama, set in NYC's Knickerbocker Hospital during the turn of the century. Clive Owen stars as Dr. John Thackery, a brilliant surgeon who suffers from cocaine and opium addictions.

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