Settling a dispute with swords, pistols and, if legend is to be believed, sausages and guitars, has long been a matter of ...

Melanie Bryan, delves into the hidden depths of Country Life's extraordinary archive to bring you a long-forgotten story, ...

Ironmongers’ Hall in London EC2 — home of the Worshipful Company of Ironmongers — is one of the Great Twelve City Livery ...

A quiet reckoning is sweeping the national conversation — although it’s largely happening behind closed doors, at small ...

The Maybach name has been attached to many of Germany's most luxurious cars over the last century — so does the latest ...

Home to a veritable ‘Noah’s Ark of species’, thanks to never being ploughed, sprayed or fertilised, our churchyards offer a ...

Sophia Money-Coutts is the new Debrett's and she's here every Wednesday to set some modern etiquette wrongs, right.

A day at the races filled with Royal processions, fantastical picnics and top hats might not sound particularly odd to us, ...

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.

Tulip-mania, Travolta v Hanks and the worst-named castle in Britain: Country Life Quiz of the Day, June 10, 2025 Tuesday's Quiz of the Day tests your spelling, and ponders kings without facial hair.

‘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, ...

Val Bourne finds the award-winning roses flourishing at Coughton Court in Warwickshire, where the historic garden is now in ...