Decoding british heraldry

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

We’re going to start our coverage of the Army, at the time of the War of the Three Kingdoms, or as it is colloquially known The English Civil War (1643-1651). (It wasn’t only English units involved an

The UK is home to decorating brands with some of the most extensive archives in the world, but what does our national style look like today? Fiona McCarthy takes a deep dive into our decorative past and future

Something “sinister” has been happening in English towns ...

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

We may have invented the flower border, but planting them remains one of the trickiest things to get right. Charles Quest-Ritson looks at the secrets behind the very best