In her last column for Country Life, our longest serving columnist reflects on what it means to write about herself and the world each week, and why she's decided to stop.

A church built for Britain’s first known Christian martyr developed into The Cathedral and Abbey Church of St Albans, ...

The With Nothing Underneath founder on the problems with wellness and curing her scepticism at a Spanish medical retreat.

To demonstrate that the technology was fit for purpose and to select between the various competing options, on April 25, 1829, the L&MR Treasurer, Henry Booth, issued a challenge to ‘all Engineers and ...

As if it wasn’t enough for an all-singing, all-dancing, multifunctioning kitchen to double as a dining room, television room and office, some can now be found masquerading as an occasional cocktail ...

Rubble and ruin were all that remained of the early-19th-century Villa Frere and its gardens, planted by the English diplomat John Hookham Frere, until a group of dedicated volunteers came to its ...

The interior designer chose a colour palette inspired by her Hong Kong childhood when she decorated her sitting room in London’s Notting Hill. ‘I have always loved yellow, so the starting point was ...

The PIG has farrowed and the latest addition in the litter is The PIG-in the Cotswolds. Self professed Pig fan and Country Life’s Editor-in-Chief went to check it out.

With lots of people off the sauce, why not head to our list of London's best bars and enjoy them while they're quiet.

The English village. Perhaps the beguiling habitat closest to the English heart, the place in which everyone dreams of living. What are the essentials of the quintessential English village? So ...

Plus, what the famed theatre critic recommends going to see in January. In the spirit of the Oscars and the Oliviers, I had thought of dubbing my awards for the best and worst of 2024 ‘The Billies’, ...

Quiet yourself and the distant hum of Nature’s parts connecting and working will soon come into focus. Silence comes in many forms. There is the nothingness silence of the grave, a type of void, and ...