The way we were photographs from the country life archive

When COUNTRY LIFE’s Henry Avray Tipping spotted a 17th-century four poster languishing in a Herefordshire attic in 1911, he set off a chain of events that saw the bed leave its ancestral home and land at The Met in New York

Seventy years after it opened at MoMA, Edward Steichen’s The Family of Man remains one of photography’s most ambitious and debated exhibitions. Peter Dench travels to its permanent home to find out what still makes it click

Our round-up of the funny, fascinating and unusual stories this fortnight

Discover how the UK’s country houses defied the odds to survive as historic monuments and cultural centres

Photographer Martin Parr shows us his singular vision of Britain

In each issue of Railways Illustrated, we ask a photographer to select their 10 favourite rail-related images and tell us the reasons why they believe these photos stand out from the crowd. This month