When he bought a tired 17th-century cottage, Giles Kime set out to discover if it’s possible to make an old house as ...

It’s pure histrionics, but when we listen to that call to arms on St Crispin’s Day we cannot but stand a little taller. St ...

One person, however, who might not agree is Steven Smith from Milngavie, East Dunbartonshire, who woke up on the weekend to ...

James Bond and Auric Goldfinger transfixed cinema goers in Goldfinger, in which a gold-obsessed super-villain plans to detonate a nuclear device in Fort Knox. The reason for doing so is in order to ...

Plus a Paddington Bear hamper, an ancient tree and a house with a terrifying price tag — it's Friday's Dawn Chorus.

Europe's most beautiful concours returned to Chantilly, France, last week and it didn't disappoint. Rosie Paterson was there ...

Peacocks are beautiful birds — but that doesn't mean they're easy to live with. Unless they're not really peacocks at ...

A new book examines the streetscapes of our historic towns and marvels at what we can easily take for granted. Its author, ...

Once considered an exotic addition, cedar trees were frequently employed by ‘Capability’ Brown as topographical punctuation ...

Annunciata Elwes reports on the new National Hedgehog Conservation Strategy that's been created by two key conservation ...

Our Countryside Crusader refuses to be melancholy as the autumn rolls in. Instead, he reveals plenty to be happy about.

'We talk about life's big questions with people who probably thought they were just coming in to discuss the redecoration of their house': Nicole Salvesen and Mary Graham on the Country Life Podcast ...