10 worst prisons

Over her decade as a prison officer, Alex South worked with some extraordinary colleagues, and saw what prisons at their best are like. She also saw the bad side – illicit affairs, violence, squalid conditions – getting gradually worse

“Hands of Saint Dominic” by Albrecht Dürer, 1506; ...

BEFORE THE AMERICAN REVOLU-tion, many colonies had established churches supported with tax dollars or imposed religious restrictions on voting or holding office. There was no separation of church and

Ironmongers’ Hall, London EC2 The home of the Worshipful Company of Ironmongers

Straw marquetry, also known as straw work, has mysterious origins. It was potentially first practised by European religious communities in the 1600s, or its roots may go back to ancient Far Eastern de

Different ways of dying across the British Isles