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The 'professional hoarders' that have dressed everyone from Helen Mirren to Hugh Grant, and Madonna to Meryl Streep
Cosprop in London has been the go-to wardrobe for period productions of the stage and screen since 1965.
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‘We couldn’t go around digging holes in existing graveyards for fear of exhuming a real body’: The man who brought The Thursday Murder Club to the big screen
Lotte Brundle caught up with James Merifield, the production designer behind the new Netflix film adaptation of the Richard Osman novel, to chat about the murder mystery.
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Tuning in with the past: Monk music will ring out for the first time since the Dissolution after medieval manuscript is rediscovered
Buckland Abbey once thronged with monks who sang for hours every day. Now, some of their newly rediscovered medieval music will ring out once more.
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The legacy of Dad's Army
Kate Green takes a look at Dad’s Army, the iconic BBC sitcom written by David Croft and Jimmy Perry.
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Alan Titchmarsh and Richard Osman will headline this year’s Queen’s Reading Room Festival at Chatsworth
Dame Jilly Cooper, the author of the Rutshire Chronicles, and Helen Fielding, who penned the Bridget Jones books, will also be attending the two day event hosted by The Queen’s charity at the Grade I listed house and gardens.
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Lights, camera, country house, action: The gorgeous estates where The Gentlemen and Bridgerton were filmed
Badminton House in Gloucestershire, seat of the Dukes of Beaufort, is rarely open to the public but has had plenty of screentime in hit TV shows.
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'There is nothing like it on this side of Arcadia': Hampshire's Grange Festival is making radical changes ahead of the 2025 country-house opera season
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Dawn Chorus: How to listen to The King's new playlist, Spike Milligan's wonky house and Burgh Island
Monday morning's Dawn Chorus round-up finds presidential inspiration, a comedic home and more.
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The silver screen, blockbusters and bombs: The curious terminology of films explained
What links the RAF, Jurassic Park and Jaws? More than you might think.
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Unputdownable: 12 page turners to see you through the rest of the winter
From cookbooks to cricket, biographies to Sunday Times bestsellers, Country Life contributors name some of their favourite books from last year.
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14 of the greatest movie posters in cinema
The right poster can evoke a film without words, stir nostalgia and entice viewers into cinemas.
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The Christmas Carol songbook that changed the sound of Christmas
Kate Green takes a look at the musical legacy of Sir David Willcocks through his book Carols for Choirs.
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The First World War, as seen through the unique Country Life Picture Archive
Country Life looks back at the First World War through the lens of the Country Life Archive. View images, read a selection of wartime articles, and also download war artist Muirhead Bone’s first catalogue of drawings, originally published in 1917.
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Henry Wood: The man who made The Proms
As the 2024 Prroms get under way, we take a look at the man who began this great British summer institution: Henry Wood.
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Curious Questions: Was music's famous 'Lady of the Nightingales' nothing more than a hoaxer?
Beatrice Harrison, aka ‘The Lady of the Nightingales’, charmed King and country with her garden duets alongside the nightingales singing in a Surrey garden. One hundred years later, Julian Lloyd Webber examines whether her performances were fact or fiction.
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The 10 most romantic declarations of love in film and literature
Kate Green takes a look at the ten most romantic movie moments and literary declarations of love.
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The real Ebeneezer Scrooge who inspired Charles Dickens was actually 'noted for his generosity, jovial disposition and appetite'
Ian Morton explores the runaway success of the Dickens Christmas classic and reveals the 'real' Ebenezer Scrooge, who was far from a mean man.
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What price culture? £380 to see Taylor Swift — or £12 for a night at the Royal Opera
Country Life's cultural crusader Athena takes a look at the thorny issue of live music ticket prices — and how the habits of concert-goers today show that the struggles of classical music and opera to find an audience run far deeper than mere cost.
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Wallace & Gromit: The Wrong Trousers turns 30
Not all heroes wear capes, some are more likely to put on the wrong trousers and ask their dog if he wants ‘more cheese’. Harry Pearson meets Wallace and Gromit, two of our best-loved Plasticine characters.
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The BBC Proms are the most ambitious, eclectic and successful classical music festival in the world — and we should celebrate them
The Proms are a great British institution and a remarkable success story, says Country Life's cultural commentator Athena.
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William Shakespeare: The original Nature boy
William Shakespeare wasn’t only the greatest playwright of our history, he was an avid ornithophile, a green man and a master of transposing the true power of Nature onto the page, says John Lewis-Stempel.
