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.

In 1985, Neil Armstrong and Sir Edmund Hillary adventured to the North Pole; 40 years later, their children re-created the expedition.

Built between 1758 and 1764, Everingham Park, in the East Riding of Yorkshire, was brilliantly reinvented in the 1960s. It ...

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

For this kitchen on the Sussex coast, Isabella Worsley dispensed with a classic seaside palette and turned to rich colours ...

The summer tours of The King’s residence this year include two new state rooms and a peep inside his private gardens.

Pay a visit to the gardens at Glenarm Castle in Co Antrim — home of Randal and Aurora McDonnell — is hard to credit that ...

The first new Morris & Co. designs in a century were developed using archive materials discovered inside a Californian ...

The ‘winter garden’ and the ‘terraced grounds of exquisite beauty’ were two of Cherkley Court’s featured attractions. They were advertised for sale in Country Life in 1910 — and then they vanished.

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.

Ritson has just returned to Great Dixter for the first time in years — and it's 'the high point of all my garden visiting for ...