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

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

BBC; DAILY EXPRESS/GETTY IMAGES ● THEY’RE NOT KEEN ...

Eleven years on from the ‘transgender tipping point’ — a term coined by Time magazine when it featured Laverne Cox on its cover, and a moment of self-visualisation and representation for many a trans

Two competing visions of Black liberation in 1960s Detroit

Mark Twain and the making of an American literary revolution