Timeshift

How To Be A Lady: An Elegant History (12x10)

Air date: Mar 26, 2013

Journalist Rachel Johnson goes in search of what seems an almost vanished social type: the lady. With a handful of vintage etiquette books to guide her and a generous helping of film archive, she wants to find out how the idea of the lady changed over time - and what it might mean to be one now. Along the way she tries out etiquette classes and side-saddle lessons, as well as discovering that debutante balls have been revived for export.