The horse we rode in on

Last Christmas, Kieran O’Brien MRCVS opened up the world of the urban horse in Victorian times. Here he describes the care of their rural counterparts

In celebration of the author’s 250th year, Bethany Stone delves into the small but significant role of horses in Jane Austen’s fiction

H&H news editor Eleanor Jones recaps this year’s big stories, and assesses what lies ahead in 2026

What the scientists are saying…

World Horse Welfare explains why looking through our horses’ eyes is the key to giving them good lives

With Hallowe’en out of the way, Christmas is the next big ghostly occasion in the UK traditional calendar. But what, one may wonder, of the rest of Europe? Ghost hunter Peter Underwood called Europe “