The Pytchley with Woodland hounds are in fine form, with big fields out during the festive season

The piece I’d never part with

(Photograph taken in 1890) Looking for a DIY challenge and a move into the countryside from Basingstoke we decided to buy the Old School House in Clyffe Pypard. The Victorian house, dating back to 185

The history of the aristocracy is intertwined with the fascinating history of hunting, Eleanor Doughty discovered while researching her most recent book

Alastair Jackson , in the latest of his series about great foxhunters, remembers Richard Sumner – a master for 28 seasons and as great a hound man as he was a horseman

Leigh Lawson has embraced acting and poetry with the same determination that sustained Marie Lloyd, the music-hall queen whose memorabilia he collects, as Carla Passino discovers