Britain’s best archaeological finds

As Unesco prepares to celebrate 80 years since its founding, Emily Scaife looks at some of the rural sites in the UK designated as World Heritage Sites and what makes them so special

Eleven friends of COUNTRY LIFE pen a love letter to their small, yet oh so distinctive patches of the British Isles, from the big skies of the north Norfolk coast to the street art of Belfast, from the glens of Perthshire to the Exe estuary in Devon via the apple orchards of Herefordshire

Look beneath the surface in the UK and you will find a plethora of hidden attractions, from caves and grottos to historic bunkers. Lorna Maybery has compiled 25 great ideas for discovering the hidden depths of the UK

Just 25 years ago, there seemed to be little new to say about the Vikings – and that was particularly the case for Viking women. The centuries-old consensus was that Viking wives and daughters stayed

Ancient India gave the world its number system, anticipated Galileo’s heliocentric theory by a millennium and spread its culture from Egypt to Siberia–only to be almost entirely forgotten. It’s past time to restore it to its rightful place in history

SOME are the fantasies of rich men, some ...