American bedlam

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

Two competing visions of Black liberation in 1960s Detroit

An idyllic neighbourhood on the edge of Berlin was once home to elite Nazis who carried out some of the worst crimes of the era. Eighty years on, the families that live there are still grappling with its tangled legacy. Sally McGrane reports

The dark history of leprosy discrimination

Bourgeois chronicler of multicultural London who tended to deify black foreigners and demonise native whites

Tucked in the Herefordshire countryside at Much Marcle, not far from its border with Gloucestershire, is Hellens Manor. Now presenting as a Tudor/Jacobean home, it predates those eras by some margin;