Once the go-to Scottish herding dog, the smooth collie is as elegant as it is dependable — a working breed with beauty and ...

A disastrous fire in 2005 prompted the rebirth of Allerton Castle, North Yorkshire, an outstanding Victorian house with a ...

Where brambles once engulfed the historic gardens at Ballynure House in Co Wicklow, Ireland — home of Clare Reid Scott — ...

The trouble is we have too few such plays: risky business should be the norm, not the anomaly. Theatre is a business, however ...

A master of disguise, inexplicably shy and unpredictably wild, the increasingly rare ring ouzel warrants giving any blackbird ...

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

Natural light, height and space might be the ideal, but designers often tackle rooms that have few, if any, of these ...

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

Before the vogue for bright blue, chlorine-treated swimming pools, members of Victorian and Edwardian society built naturalistic bathing ponds inspired by the Arts & Crafts movement.

If you’d told me I’d have the best night’s sleep in a long, long time in a nearly 500-year-old inn, I would have been skeptical. Perhaps that’s why The Swan at Fittleworth has been so popular, for so ...

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

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