A church built for Britain’s first known Christian martyr developed into The Cathedral and Abbey Church of St Albans, ...

The With Nothing Underneath founder on the problems with wellness and curing her scepticism at a Spanish medical retreat.

To demonstrate that the technology was fit for purpose and to select between the various competing options, on April 25, 1829, the L&MR Treasurer, Henry Booth, issued a challenge to ‘all Engineers and ...

As if it wasn’t enough for an all-singing, all-dancing, multifunctioning kitchen to double as a dining room, television room and office, some can now be found masquerading as an occasional cocktail ...

Rubble and ruin were all that remained of the early-19th-century Villa Frere and its gardens, planted by the English diplomat John Hookham Frere, until a group of dedicated volunteers came to its ...

The interior designer chose a colour palette inspired by her Hong Kong childhood when she decorated her sitting room in London’s Notting Hill. ‘I have always loved yellow, so the starting point was ...

Animals, predator or prey, understand the need for silence. The owl flies on noiseless wings (courtesy of special comb-like ...

The PIG has farrowed and the latest addition in the litter is The PIG-in the Cotswolds. Self professed Pig fan and Country Life’s Editor-in-Chief went to check it out.

From the artist killed on his first day in the war to a masterpiece once sold for £30, these were our most popular arts ...

The right poster can evoke a film without words, stir nostalgia and entice viewers into cinemas. We’ve taken a selection from ...

Over the Christmas period we'll be featuring some of the best stories of the year from the Country Life website.

Noël Coward’s Suite In Three Keys at the Orange Tree Richmond gave me more pleasure than any other theatre this year. This trilogy was Coward’s final work for the theatre, but the highlight was A Song ...