Over the years, each tenant of the mansion has left their mark. Sybil Sassoon and her husband, George, the 5th Marquess of Cholmondeley, revamped the pipes, electricity, and internal phone system.

The Sassoon dynasty is the epitome of the cosmopolitan transnational Jewish families I retrace in my book “Baghdadi Jewish Networks in the Age of Nationalism”: intrepid merchants who ...

Sybil Sassoon, the current Marquess's paternal grandmother, is credited with modernising Houghton Hall after marrying George Cholmondeley, the fifth Marquess, in 1913. Her work on adding to the ...

Written by a single Jewish scribe on 400 pages of parchment about 1,100 years ago, the Codex Sassoon is estimated to fetch $30 million to $50 million when it is sold by Sotheby’s auction house ...

In their book, In Love and War,Vice Admiral Jim Stockdale and his wife Sybil wrote about their lives during the eight years Jim was a prisoner of war in North Vietnam. Below are excerpts from ...

AND WITH HER LIFE ACROSS THE UNITED STATES. NOW, JUST TO TELL YOU A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT SYBIL. SYBIL WAS AN ACTIVIST, AN EDUCATOR, AND AN AUTHOR. SHE WORKED AS AN ASSOCIATE DEAN AT XAVIER ...

NEW ORLEANS — It was a celebration of life for Sybil Haydel Morial, a New Orleans matriarch who opened doors so others could walk in. “There are not many people today who truly lift you up by ...

Sally Field and writer Stewart Stern won Emmys for this adaptation of Flora Rheta Schreiber's bestseller about the true story of a woman with multiple personalities. Joanne Woodward, Brad Davis.

In the summer of 1963, Sybil and Dutch Morial were driving to Chicago for the NAACP’s annual conference when their car ran into a ditch in Columbus, Mississippi, a small city where Jim Crow laws ...

Mrs Sybil Birling is Arthur Birling's wife and right from the opening of the play she is cold-hearted and snobbish despite being a prominent member of local women's charity. Throughout dinner she ...

The New Orleans community and loved ones gathered on Monday to commemorate the life of the city’s first Black first lady, Sybil Haydel Morial. The Sept. 23 memorial service, held in Xavier’s ...

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - Many gathered Sunday evening (Sept. 22) at the Xavier University Convocation Center to honor Sybil Morial, a civil rights advocate who passed away at 91. Morial was the widow ...