‘a giant of a personality’

Fergus Bisset recounts some of the extracurricular activities of the great golfing champion Walter Hagen . Suffice to say, he was something of a party animal

Can you hunt hounds and race-ride? How compatible are the two sports – and can you fit both in? Tessa Waugh finds out

Two views of the same country

A home-bred claims a coveted first HOYS ticket, a seven-time Olympian sorts through contenders and siblings prove that they’re on form

Whether it is adding contemporary paintings to a gallery of Old Masters or branching out into territories as diverse as Modernist chairs, Iranian tiles or Churchill memorabilia, the passion for collecting seems to run in some families, as Eleanor Doughty discovers

The Boundless Deep: Young Tennyson, Science and the ...