Throughout his visit to Ireland, many females rallied to help former slave Frederick Douglass in his campaign for abolition, writes Robert Hume.

Carol O’Callaghan looks at a new book on pattern design and an upcoming show PATTERNITY at this month’s London Design Week.

Long before Barack Obama wrote about the audacity of hope, Frederick Douglass lived it. Dan Buckley hails the greatness of a man whose only weapons were self-belief and powerful words