How mount rushmore was built

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

Shaping both the land and the lives of those who built them, viaducts and aqueducts are monuments to ambition, sacrifice, and change

“Today is the third greatest day of my life.” Hans-Joachim Stuck has tears welling in his eyes. “After the birth of my two sons, nothing I’ve done has matched this. Nothing.” This from a man who has s

Art and soul The oldest and largest public art museum in the English-speaking Caribbean, established in 1974, features both historical and contemporary art – paintings, portraits, wooden creations and

EL SALVADOR

Ever since the botanist Joseph Dalton Hooker ventured to the Himalayas on his 1847 plant-hunting expedition, this species-rich, biodiverse region has held a fascination for British plant lovers. It’s