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The only thing better than a stately home is a stately home in wooden miniature
Meet George Barham — the gifted woodcarver who can turn your family pile into a wooden masterpiece.
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The hype over Wuthering Heights has reached fever pitch. A new podcast from the team behind The Rest Is History is cutting through the noise
Historian Dominic Sandbrook is teaming up with his longtime producer, Tabitha Syrett, on their new programme The Book Club. They tell Country Life about their own favourite books and what everyone gets wrong about Brontë's novel.
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'The most beautiful house for sale in London' is a six-bedroom home with a walled garden that backs on to Greenwich Park
Will Hosie takes a look at Crooms Hill — and immediately starts figuring out how to raise three million pounds.
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What is everyone talking about this week: How to make the most of wetter winters
With constant storms throughout January and February, 2026 has confirmed climate science's view that British winters are becoming rainier. The least we can do is embrace this
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‘Please, for heaven’s sake, not a pear-shaped diamond with a gold band’: Proposal etiquette for the modern man
Valentine's Day unsurprisingly ranks as one of the top dates each year for proposals. But how to make sure you are doing it right?
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What have the Romans ever done for us? For one thing, taught us the art of seduction
More Britons are single, unmarried or living alone now than at any other point in history. Our predecessors might offer ways out of the rut — and into each other's arms.
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The W1 set is up in arms about Liz Truss's roof terrace. But what is a members' club without one?
The former Prime Minister is launching a new club in Mayfair's Leconfield House, angering local residents who've complained prematurely of the ruckus this is certain to cause.
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What is everyone talking about this week: As Valentine's Day beckons, love letters are making a comeback
Young lovers are foregoing expensive gifts and turning instead to quill and paper. Is it a result of the cost-of-living crisis — or something else?
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'Uncut Gems' and the mystery of the most significant collection of Tudor and Stuart jewels ever found in London
As the London Museum prepares to unveil the Cheapside Hoard in new premises on Smithfield, Will Hosie speaks to historian Victoria Shepherd about the story behind these precious jewels.
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When is a cottage not a cottage? When it's a spectacular, glass-walled lakehouse making waves in 'Heated Rivalry'
The television show 'Heated Rivalry' has become such a huge hit that the phrase 'coming to the cottage' has found a whole new definition. But does that spell trouble for those who still think of a cottage as an ancient stone-built home with a thatched roof? Will Hosie investigates.
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The Country Life Guide to Marrakech: Where to shop, stay and eat
Magical Marrakech is a tale of two halves, says Hetty Lintell, who enjoys both going back in time and its new, design-led focus.
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What is everyone talking about this week: Everything you wanted to know about Greenland* (*but were afraid to ask)
The jewel in the Danish crown has become our latest cause célèbre as the USA muscles its way onto the island. But how much do we really know about it?
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What is everyone talking about this week: Mutton chops are back and everyone's drinking sloe gin
In his latest Country Life column, Will Hosie reveals what everyone's talking about this week (and growing, and drinking).
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What is everyone talking about this week: Winter weddings might just be better than their summer counterparts
As our winters warm, so have Britons warmed to winter weddings. Just keep the fireplace well stocked.
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What is everyone talking about this week: Rewilding starts in your own back garden — even in the city
If you were to string all of Britain's gardens together, they would cover a space larger than Devon. That's why we need to rewild them.
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Jazz music has always made a case for revolution, and we're falling back in love again
There’s more than a whiff of swing in the air–and on the airwaves. Will Hosie explores the resurrection of one of music’s most exciting genres
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Tate-à-tête: The National Gallery’s promise to grow its modern-art collection risks reopening old wounds
The National Gallery's announcement of a new wing and more modern art promises to reignite a historic rivalry with Tate.
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What is everyone talking about this week: January is the worst month of the year. Here's 15 ways to make it fun
P.s if you've made any New Year's resolutions, please don't tell us — or anyone else — about them.
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The 'new Notting Hill': more wine, more cafés, and the same old gardens where Hugh Grant kissed Julia Roberts
The complicated interplay of urban trends, property prices, tax policy and new boutiques have made Notting Hill more popular than ever with first-time buyers. Here are a couple of places currently for sale in one of its prime spots.
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Our favourite Frontispieces of 2025
Will Hosie takes a look back at some standout Frontispiece portraits from the previous 12 months.
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For the first time in five centuries, Catholic worshippers in England and Wales may soon outnumber Protestants
New figures suggest that Britain’s youth has found God. Catholicism, in particular, is proving popular.
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What is everyone talking about this week: Would you move to Dubai?
Dubai has warm weather, low taxes and an entrepreneurial mindset, but is it enough to tempt Will Hosie to move?
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A lifelong Londoner on how to beat the throngs and make the most of the city this Christmas
Too few people know how to do Christmas right, says Will Hosie. Here are his tips and tricks for navigating the capital this festive season.
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When Chelsea was grazing and pasture, not gazing and posture, this house was a Georgian dairy. Now it's a townhouse on SW3's swishest street
Will Hosie takes a look at The Old Dairy, a beautiful old home in SW3 that's seen the entire area grow up around it.
