Sydney Freeman-Mitford, Baroness Redesdale (1880-1963), was said to have remarked that, when she saw the phrase “peer’s daughter” in a newspaper headline, she knew the story would involve one of her ...

I did not know Jessica Mitford— who was dubbed “the Queen of the Muckrakers”– for long, but I knew her well. In the 1990s, shortly before my biography of Abbie Hoffman was published I decided that I ...

This slippery account from journalist Trethewey (Mothers of the Mind) seeks to reevaluate Sydney Bowles Mitford, the mother of the six “eccentric” Mitford sisters. Trethewey pushes back against ...

The BritBox series ‘Outrageous‘ shows how the Mitford sisters lived the kind of public, emotional, headline-grabbing lives that people now expect from modern celebrity families. With six sisters, one ...

Pop culture is having a Mitfordmania era. The Mitford family, midcentury British swells who achieved various levels of notoriety, have been the subject of several recent hits. Released late last year, ...

Fans have officially been reunited with the Peaky Blinders gang. The BBC period crime drama — which was released in the United States by Netflix — ran for six seasons from 2013 until 2022. Now, the ...

Cavendish Square in Claremont was evacuated on Tuesday after a fire broke out. The City of Cape Town’s fire and rescue spokesperson, Edward Bosch said emergency crews were called just before noon and ...