Driving cattle on foot across Scotland, echoing the practices of our forefathers and gaining intimate insight into the animals’ habits, Patrick Laurie discovers that sometimes it really is about the journey as much as the destination

You wouldn’t guess from the cover design—three songbirds silhouetted over swatches of picturesque Englishness—but Catherine Clarke’s A History of England in 25 Poems hits one of its sweet spots with a

Across 7 Traditional English technique for producing bacon ...

They punctuate the British landscape like few other buildings - Clare Hunt looks at the not-so humble cottage

Farmer Martin Hole explains the challenges of farming with wildlife in a protected wetland. Interview: Lorna Maybery

For artist Nellie Shepherd, the landscape outside her painstakingly renovated farmhouse is just as important as the colourful scene inside it