Those Damn Statistics

The England team for tomorrow’s Test match against Pakistan has been selected under new criteria. Roderick Easdale isn’t entirely convinced

You're So Vein

Marble is being used in increasingly inventive ways

A Whale Of A Time

Birkenhead House, Hermanus, South Africa

Duel Personalities

Only a few generations ago, our forebears were prepared to shoot each other when affronted. Ian Morton reports on man’s fatal attraction to the art of duelling

A Trout-Fishing Haven On The Avon

Armed with Yellow Humpies and Danica duns, Editor Hedges and The Prof enjoy a successful afternoon in pursuit of giant trout on Wilsford Manor’s stretch of the Wiltshire Avon.

Furth, Fortune and fill the Fetters

David Profumo goes behind the scenes at Blair Castle in Perthshire to discover the proud history of the Duke of Atholl’s private army, the Atholl Highlanders

Highly Strung

Matthew Dennison meets the Orkney mandolin man

Estates for all Seasons

After the uncertainty of the independence vote, Scotland is back in business

Top of the Class

The History Boys cast shot from classroom to super stardom, but what came next? Jane Watkins finds out  

We went to Mow a Meadow

ONE of the most fascinating aspects of the garden at Gravetye is our clutch of wildflower meadows, which are a source of pleasure all year round.

The Aga Saga

For 95 years, it’s been so much more than a cooker. Julie Harding lifts the hot plate on the heart-warming kitchen feature no country house should be without.

Vive le Bulldog Français!

Sacrebleu! It seems that Britain’s top dog is a French bulldog. Katy Birchall finds out why the endearingly bateared canine is taking over homes and hearts–and why you should do your research before buying a puppy

Let There Be Light

Gladdened by the lengthening days and the arrival of a newborn Red Poll calf, John Lewis-Stempel welcomes the advent of spring on a mild March morning

It's not easy being Green

THE Government has announced its backing of a huge new Northern Forest with a £5.7 million grant; Defra Secretary Michael Gove promises that the initiative will ‘deliver a Green Brexit’.

He'll always be behind you

NUMBER Two Dressing Room, the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford: my home for nigh on a quarter of every year.

Friends Of The Earth

WHEN Marcel Proust dipped a madeleine in his tea, a world of memories was unlocked for him.

Through A Glass Lightly

Anouska Hempel’s latest design project explores the transformative possibilities of mirrors

Art For A New World

Duncan MacMillan applauds an exhibition that reassesses the contribution made by Scottish artists to the great movements of Modern art

A Questionable Home-Made Liqueur

A Questionable Home-Made Liqueur

Cutting A Dash

Parham House gardens, Parham, West Sussex Glorious cutting gardens, floriferous borders and a potager secreted within the four-acre walled garden fulfil a time-honoured tradition of providing flowers for the Elizabethan house, finds Jacky Hobbs

Coincidences By The Cupful

Coincidences By The Cupful

Total Immersion

Ruth Guilding reflects on the significance of the painter’s oeuvre as an exhibition and the launch of a first catalogue raisonne mark his centenary

Beware Boats That Drive Men Mad

Beware Boats That Drive Men Mad

Where Writing Reached The Heights

The Brontë Parsonage Museum, Haworth,  North Yorkshire, in the care of the Brontë Society Some of our most enduring stories were conceived at this Yorkshire parsonage.Jeremy Musson enjoys a literary pilgrimage to its recently restored interiors

A Capital Gallery Of Galanthus

Chelsea Physic Garden, Chelsea, London SW3 A botanical and horticultural haven in the heart of London, Chelsea’s ancient Physic Garden has enthusiastically jumped on the snowdrop bandwagon in recent times.

The Original Celebrity

Tim Richardson is captivated by an exhibition that shows Nelson’s mistress to have been much more than a self-made seductress.

Fox-Red Is The New Black

They’re taking the shooting world by storm as the gundog of the moment, but fox-reds go back further than you might think, discovers Katy Birchall

The Flower Seller

My Favourite Painting Cassandra Goad

Don't Leave Me Hanging On The Telephone

Sybil Fawlty chattered on it for hours, Agatha Christie built whole plays around it and calling teenage sweethearts was a challenge, but the landline telephone is a phenomenon future generations will never know, reflects Rob Crossan

Beauty Beside The River

Clive Aslet enjoys a small exhibition that captures the spirit of William Morris’s London home and tells the story of its owners