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...
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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 Boat Race 2026: Dark Blues, Light Blues and a Long Run of Cambridge Dominance
Cambridge arrive as favourites for today's Boat Race, but Oxford have been waiting a long time. Our preview of the 2026 race from Putney to Mortlake.
The Boat Race: A Short History of Britain's Long Rivalry on the Thames
It began, as so many English traditions do, with two friends and a disagreement about where to hold the party. In 1829, Charles Merivale of St John's College, Cambridge, and his old school friend Charles Wordsworth of Christ Church, Oxford, arranged a race at Henley-on-Thames between
The Season Under Other Stars
While the northern countryside settles into mist and pheasant calls, the Southern Hemisphere is bright with its own anticipation. In Melbourne, the air sharpens, the jacarandas bloom, and the lawns of Flemington Racecourse are cut to a billiard's smoothness.