A master of disguise, inexplicably shy and unpredictably wild, the increasingly rare ring ouzel warrants giving any blackbird ...

The problem is that houses, castles, abbeys and monuments devoid of historical specifics become little more than generic curiosities, admired only for their strangeness or beauty. There is nothing ...

Natural light, height and space might be the ideal, but designers often tackle rooms that have few, if any, of these ...

Climate change means increasingly unbearable heat and dangerous wildfires across swathes of Europe — so what is the alternative? Words and photographs by Emma Lavelle.

The government has proposed to remove the Garden Trust's position as a statutory consultee in planning permissions for up to 1,700 historic landscapes and gardens in order to speed up building.

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

The first golden eagle to fledge from the nest of a translocated bird has been rewarded with a name selected by Sir David Attenborough.

Art Deco, with its exuberant passion for geometry, luxury and shiny chrome, cocooned troubled times in a layer of glitz. A century after the style gained its name, Gavin Plumley surveys one of the ...

Jenkins, faced with the colossal challenge of illustrating Homer's 'The Iliad' and 'The Odyssey', eschewed grandstand views ...

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

Alas, the age of the hot hatch is reaching something of a nadir. Environmental targets and petrol-powered performance ...

This week marked Sir Walter Scott’s birthday — and so it seemed the right moment to celebrate the terrier that owes its fame, and its name, to his pen.