As Haddon Hall’s rooms, complete with historic witches' marks, are transformed into exhibits that explore witchcraft and evil ...

The Country Life quiz runs daily every afternoon, with new editions published at 4pm. Exquisite houses, the beauty of Nature, ...

John Illsley rose to fame as the bassist of the Dire Straits, but nowadays you're more likely to find him in an art studio.

Agecroft Hall, near Manchester, didn't meet the same miserable end as some of Britain's other country homes. Instead, it was ...

Now is the time to firstly, hug a tree, and secondly, plant some more — in increasingly imaginative ways.

A history of Ireland’s original setter — the elegant, intelligent breed saved from extinction by devoted breeders and ...

In celebration of the footballing talents of Country Life's guest editor Sir David Beckham, we look back at the summer of ...

John Goodall looks at the sources of inspiration behind the design for the magnificently idiosyncratic West Wycombe Park in ...

When he noticed an uncanny resemblance between John Singer Sargent’s painting of Virginie Gautreau and a Cecil Beaton ...

Keen collectors sooner or later find their way to the outstanding trees and shrubs at Bluebell Arboretum in Derbyshire, ...

The lawns at Haddo House in Aberdeenshire are luscious and friendly, unless you are the prey of the vile 'Strathy Strangler'.

The National Lobster Hatchery in Cornwall is fighting for the species' survival. But it could do with some help.