The age of noblesse oblige may have passed, but the aristocracy continues to play an important role in shaping and preserving life in the countryside, says Eleanor Doughty

H&H’s hunting editor Catherine Austen shares a somewhat predictable remedy for all of your Christmas woes

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

An autumnal November day with the Rockview Harriers proves to be “hunting at its purest”

KATIE HINDMARCH-WATSON describes a sex scandal that consumed Queen Victoria’s grandson On 7 July 1889, a policeman arrested a sometime telegraph boy, Henry Newlove, at his mother’s house in Camden Tow

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