Jenkins, faced with the colossal challenge of illustrating Homer's 'The Iliad' and 'The Odyssey', eschewed grandstand views ...

Country Life is unlike any other magazine: the only glossy weekly on the newsstand and the only magazine that has been guest-edited by His Majesty The King not once, but twice. It is a celebration of ...

Blue skies and rising mercury cause have been a theme of this summer, but there are always those who thrive and those who struggle in unusual times.

Art Deco, with its exuberant passion for geometry, luxury and shiny chrome, cocooned troubled times in a layer of glitz. A century after the style gained its name, Gavin Plumley surveys one of the ...

As summer temperatures continue to soar, fans — long considered a fashion anachronism — are back in the style spotlight.

Built between 1758 and 1764, Everingham Park, in the East Riding of Yorkshire, was brilliantly reinvented in the 1960s. It ...

Every Monday, Melanie Bryan, delves into the hidden depths of Country Life's extraordinary archive to bring you a long-forgotten story, photograph or advert.

In 1985, Neil Armstrong and Sir Edmund Hillary adventured to the North Pole; 40 years later, their children re-created the expedition.

For this kitchen on the Sussex coast, Isabella Worsley dispensed with a classic seaside palette and turned to rich colours ...

Alas, the age of the hot hatch is reaching something of a nadir. Environmental targets and petrol-powered performance ...

A product of Victorian entertainment, piers are synonymous with the British seaside. But they need our help to survive.

Pay a visit to the gardens at Glenarm Castle in Co Antrim — home of Randal and Aurora McDonnell — is hard to credit that ...