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Settling a dispute with swords, pistols and, if legend is to be believed, sausages and guitars, has long been a matter of ...
A quiet reckoning is sweeping the national conversation — although it’s largely happening behind closed doors, at small ...
Melanie Bryan, delves into the hidden depths of Country Life's extraordinary archive to bring you a long-forgotten story, ...
‘I like people to look as natural and as physically at ease as animals, as Pluto my whippet,’ Lucian Freud revealed in 2002. Introduced to whippets by his lover and frequent sitter Susanna Chancellor, ...
The Maybach name has been attached to many of Germany's most luxurious cars over the last century — so does the latest ...
Thinking about an article he wrote almost half a century ago prompted Alan Titchmarsh to get sowing — and he's now reaping summer loveliness.
Ironmongers’ Hall in London EC2 — home of the Worshipful Company of Ironmongers — is one of the Great Twelve City Livery ...
Home to a veritable ‘Noah’s Ark of species’, thanks to never being ploughed, sprayed or fertilised, our churchyards offer a ...
Caisson House's fifteen abandoned locks were part of the draw for Amanda and Phil Honey, who have created this astonishing ...
The country has produced its first ‘champagne’ after its producers, Lorna and Trevor Jackson, planted 1,000 vines nine years ago on their farm in St Boswells.
The style set is returning to the very West London neighbourhoods it once made a habit of spurning, finds Will Hosie.
In the latest instalment of Mark Cocker's 'Winging it' column, he looks at the peregrine, a bird of prey with astonishing speed and super strength.