From the immense staff running a lavish Edwardian estate and the lonely maid-of-all-work cooking in a cramped middle-class house to the poor child doing chores in a slightly less poor household, servants were essential to the British way of life. They were hired not only for their skills but also to[...]

Servants: A Downstairs View of Twentieth-century Britain is the social history of the last century through the eyes of those who served. From the butler, the footman, the maid and the cook of 1900 to the au pairs, cleaners and childminders who took their place seventy years later, a previously unhea[...]

”Det är ett kort men roligt liv.” Bartholomew Robert, pirat. Den fjärde boken i serien bjuder på spännande historier om pirater – havets skräck. Deras storhetstid sträckte över nära 300 år. Men sjörövarnas guldålder varade bara i trettio år, från 1690–1720. Det var [...]