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 ...

If you shopped at Gerrity’s supermarket on a Sunday afternoon in May, Stephen Wheadon might have bagged your groceries, hoping for a tip he’d donate to charity. If you took part in a walk to benefit ...

There is a sentence in the Rev. Charles Strobel’s posthumous memoir, The Kingdom of the Poor: My Journey Home, that gave me pause. Even as I write that, it seems silly. The whole book gave me pause.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Filling up the Ruby Diamond Concert Hall at Florida State University, hundreds of people from all walks of life gathered Aug. 19 to pay tribute to the late President Emeritus John Thrasher, who died ...

MERIDIAN TWP. — Patricia Herring Jackson spent nearly 25 years serving Meridian Township as a planning commissioner, trustee and supervisor before she died last month, and her former colleagues want ...