In her last column for Country Life, our longest serving columnist reflects on what it means to write about herself and the world each week, and why she's decided to stop.

Blenheim's big clean, the best National Park pubs, Maria Callas's costumes and a beautiful, quirky house for sale — they're all in our first Dawn Chorus of 2025.

Small in size and quick to mature, these seedlings of coriander, rocket, radish and more are bursting with flavour that ...

Our expert dog trainer Ben Randall has advice for owners of new puppies. A-list dog trainer Ben Randall has been sharing his advice on for the last few years in the weekly Paws for Thought column here ...

A church built for Britain’s first known Christian martyr developed into The Cathedral and Abbey Church of St Albans, ...

To demonstrate that the technology was fit for purpose and to select between the various competing options, on April 25, 1829, the L&MR Treasurer, Henry Booth, issued a challenge to ‘all Engineers and ...

The With Nothing Underneath founder on the problems with wellness and curing her scepticism at a Spanish medical retreat.

Rubble and ruin were all that remained of the early-19th-century Villa Frere and its gardens, planted by the English diplomat John Hookham Frere, until a group of dedicated volunteers came to its ...

The PIG has farrowed and the latest addition in the litter is The PIG-in the Cotswolds. Self professed Pig fan and Country Life’s Editor-in-Chief went to check it out.

The interior designer chose a colour palette inspired by her Hong Kong childhood when she decorated her sitting room in London’s Notting Hill. ‘I have always loved yellow, so the starting point was ...

The English village. Perhaps the beguiling habitat closest to the English heart, the place in which everyone dreams of living. What are the essentials of the quintessential English village? So ...