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The Store review: Oxford’s newest luxury hotel on the site of the old department store, BoswellsSwapping clothing and haberdashery for king-size beds and cocktails, the transformation of Boswells into The Store Hotel is cleverly done, finds Annunciata Elwes.
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London as you've never seen it — and as you'll never see it againThe East End of London has changed rapidly in recent years, but photographer Paul Trevor chronicled it from the 1970s to the 1990s. His images have been collected in a new book, Market Day.
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Fresh calls to list Jubilee Line extension stationsThe stations opened in 1999 deserve to be recognised and protected from future development, according to campaigners.
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Legacy of loos seeks new custodianEver wanted to own more than 1,200 antique loos, washbasins, baths, taps and bathroomalia? Well, now is your chance, as the Thomas Crapper Museum is up for sale.
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The great Blue Plaque mystery in LondonDozens of blue plaques have gone missing down the years, and English Heritage is determined to try and find them.
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Britain's rarest plant is set to go on public display at Kew GardensThose wishing to enjoy what might be a once-in-a-lifetime chance to see flowers such as the lady’s slipper orchid should probably start planning now.
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Curious Questions: What are the finest last words ever uttered?Final words can be poignant, tragic, ironic, loving and, sometimes, hilarious. Annunciata Elwes examines this most bizarre form of public speaking.
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National Racehorse Week, a unique chance to go behind the scenes of the Sport of KingsNational Racehorse Week returns for the fourth consecutive year next month, in a bid ‘to show the public what life as a racehorse is really like’.
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Vote for your tree of the year and help save our 'Living Legends'This year's theme is 'Magnificent Oaks', and the competition aims to spread awareness that trees have little legal protection, according to organisers the Woodland Trust.
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Newly revealed letters from the Dickens family reveal strange names, odd jobs and mutual distrustIf you think you and your siblings don't get on, just wait until you see what Charles Dickens's children said about each other.
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Shipwreck of the Earl of Abergavenny receives protected statusThe ship was captained by John Wordsworth, brother of the romantic poet William, and sunk off the notorious Shambles bank in Dorset.
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University Arms, Cambridge, review: The hotel where a book butler comes as standardThe world’s biggest crème brûlée, Edwardian luxury, books, books and more books — Annunciata Elwes explores the University Arms, Cambridge.
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Thatch under threat? Poor harvests, labour shortages and war are causing the industry to struggleA new report from Historic England suggests that, despite high demand for the work, the profession is struggling.
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The £20,000 watch made from the wing of a Spitfire shot down in the Second World WarThe ultimate enthusiast's timepiece?
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A single peat moor stores the carbon of 1,000,000 cars — and this 'climate-action trump card' needs urgent protectionRecent research has discovered that one moor in Yorkshire stores as much carbon as one million cars would release in a year, highlighting why we need to restore them.
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Waterside homes are cheaper than they have been in years — but it won't lastNow is the time to buy a house by the water, according to research conducted exclusively for Country Life by Jackson-Stops. Annunciata Elwes finds out why.
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The 'holy grail' of JRR Tolkien's letters are up for sale, showing his anger at his editors and the 'priggery' of Sherlock HolmesBayliss Books are selling the biggest collection of Tolkien first editions and personal letters to come up for sale in twenty years. Annunciata Elwes takes a look.
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A £150 million, 10-year programme to help save the countryside: 'Our job is to give money away to do good things'Lottery funding is now being used to benefit Nature with a new 10-year programme. Annunciata Elwes reports.
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Thanks be to Jeremy? What you need to know about the changes to permitted development rightsAs the changes to permitted development rights for agricultural buildings — known as Clarkson’s Clause — start to kick in, Annunciata Elwes assesses their impact
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The Uffington White Horse restoration has got it looking at its best, 3,000 years after it was first createdThe Uffington White Horse, the oldest chalk figure in Britain, has just undergone a superb restoration.
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The shire horses still ploughing the fields of London deep into the 21st centuryPhotographer Natasha Durlacher's passion project shines a light on the wonderful shire horses who still have a place in modern London.
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The cosmos, as you have never seen it beforeThis year's shortlist for the Astronomy Photographer of the Year has been released, and the images are truly out of this world.
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The Big Butterfly Count is here — time to get out into the garden and do your bitDo your bit to save the butterflies of Britain.
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The Titian masterpiece found in a plastic bag at a London bus stop has sold for £17.6 millionThe painting that secured Titian’s reputation as 'the greatest painter of the Venetian Renaissance' is going up for sale, 30 years after it was recovered in a carrier bag in the most unlikely of spots.
