Farewell to a true countryman

Michael Farrin’s brilliance across country was key to the peerless sport he provided for the Quorn field, says Alastair Jackson in his latest piece about great hunting men he knew

A Blencathra bitch is champion for the third year running, and there’s emotion round the ring when a Cumbria beagle takes the supreme

H&H’s hunting editor Catherine Austen has fun at two major hound shows, and has one eye on the approaching season

WEST OF ENGLAND 7 August

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

This year marks the 625th anniversary of The Canterbury Tales author – and “father of English literature” – Geoffrey Chaucer’s death. He penned this classic, about a merry band of medieval pilgrims te