The designer Manolo Blahnik has been crafting covetable footwear for more than 50 years. He travels to Milan every season to ...
Never bet on a runner ridden by such and such a jockey because he stops his horses,’ was one bitterly expressed piece of nonsense you could swiftly discard. ‘If the favourite loses, double your stake ...
Meet the Clumber spaniel, the largest of the spaniels with a sad-looking face and a heart of gold. Last night, Crufts ...
New Zealand to Peru — and more than 2,600 entries across British and Irish native breeds will gather for the biggest date in ...
John Piper was a modernist who rejected Modernism, a versatile artist who defied categories, but one who remained true to the spirit and detail of the places he painted ...
Louis Elton, an alumnus of both Oxford and Cambridge, believes innovative artisanship is the answer to Britain's challenges.
In 1997, Country Life published a set of chromatic photographs of Gertrude Jekyll’s Munstead Wood garden that had lain ...
Grace McCloud talks to Toddy Fleming of Studio Cameron about gently updating The Hirsel — a Category A Listed stately home on ...
One hundred years ago, Oulton Park — whose family had already been torn apart by the First World War — was consumed by fire.
The Country Life quiz runs daily every afternoon, with new editions published at 4pm. This photo is the moment last week when ...
Wild 'Daphne bholua' in the forest of Langtang National Park, Nepal.
Red kites, great spotted woodpeckers and pink-footed geese — these are only a few of the success stories, writes Mark Cocker.