Daniyal Mueenuddin’s new novel shows that living in a highly stratified country damages both the rich and the poor.
Every time they left, they held their breath. A set of weathered, worn wooden stairs was how the family of 6-year-old Elijah Purcell came and went from their home in the Greenwood Estates community.
Tom Quinn wrote about the Queen Mother's relationship with her ghillie, a servant for fishing and hiking trips, in his book Yes Ma'm — The Secret Life of Servants. They told Quinn that he was "quite ...
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Author Lucy Lethbridge explores the history of British servants through their diaries, letters and memoirs. She says, "What I found particularly... Visible And Invisible: 'Servants' Looks At Life ...
A century ago, 1.5 million British people worked as servants – astonishingly, more than worked in factories or farms. But while servants are often portrayed as characters in period dramas, the real ...
What really makes the British royal family tick? It’s a question that royal watchers have pondered for as long as there has been a royal family. The answer is the huge body of servants and staff past ...
In July 2020, a man fueled by hate and armed with an address he found online, traveled to Judge Esther Salas’s New Jersey home to murder her. Her 20-year-old son, Daniel, happened to be home that day ...