North, on the Twelfth
Grouse season opens on the Twelfth of August, and it has done so since the Game Act of 1831 settled the matter. Red grouse cannot be farmed or found anywhere outside the heather moorland of the British Isles...
The Hare
Cowes Week
Cowes Week has been sailed on the Solent since 1826, and in exactly two centuries of racing it has been cancelled only three times, for each of the two World Wars and once, in 2020, for a pandemic.
On the Sussex Downs
The Dukes of Richmond have occupied Goodwood House since 1697. That is 327 years of the same family in the same building. More importantly, they have a rule about what happens next.
Mr Christie's Idea: The Making of Glyndebourne
The man who built Glyndebourne liked to receive his guests in lederhosen. John Christie was a Sussex landowner of ample means and firmer opinions, and by the spring of 1934 he had arrived at the view that what the English countryside chiefly wanted was Mozart
The Bump, the Draw, and Other Things Explained to No One
Henley Royal Regatta does not race like other regattas, and nobody at the water's edge feels any need to say so. There is no field of boats setting off together, no photo finish across a shared line.
How the Enclosure Tells on You by Four O'clock
By mid-afternoon at Henley, a jacket that has given up is not hard to spot. The shoulders develop a faint shine where the sun has been sitting on them all day. The collar softens and loses its roll.
What Is Henley Royal Regatta? A Primer on Boats, Blazers, and the Riverbank
Each July, Henley-on-Thames becomes the stage for a most English sort of spectacle. Henley Royal Regatta may be one of the great rowing events of the year, yet many who attend have never set foot in a scull. What they do know is the quiet thrill of seeing