“people like to tell themselves that the origins of american independence were non-violent. but it’s not true”

When COUNTRY LIFE’s Henry Avray Tipping spotted a 17th-century four poster languishing in a Herefordshire attic in 1911, he set off a chain of events that saw the bed leave its ancestral home and land at The Met in New York

Dear Simon, My daughter, Wendy, and I have enjoyed so many visits to Singapore, and this year we felt it was about time we put our thoughts and experiences down on paper. Sir Stamford Raffles was knig

Baltimore, Maryland Deportation battle: The Trump administration’s ...

Pick of the week’s correspondence

From local estates to the school gates, scaremongering about asylum seekers has caused a dangerous rise in far-right sentiment

Cuffed, kicked, and camera in hand — David Hoffman’s new book Protest! is the result of 40 years documenting the fight for rights and the force against it. Peter Dench finds out more