The Field’s Great War – how the countryside did its bit; snorkel stalking – hunting bass with our top spearfishers; grouse over dogs – the eternal poetry of pointers, guns…
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Tracey Worcester: If I ruled the world
With the world teetering on the edge of ecological collapse, I was invited to rule. By putting the health and well-being of humanity, nature and future generations at the forefront…
Hound Judging
On the straightest of legs and the roundest of feet,/With ribs like a frigate his timbers to meet,/With a fashion and fling and a form so complete,/That to see him dance…
Henley Blazers
In most social situations, so far as dress is concerned, the ladies hold all the cards. While they are free to shimmer and shine in a riot of colours, cuts…
Feathers are the milliner’s friend, put one in your hat
Celebrated hat maker Yvette Jelfs ruffled feathers while commentating on fashion at Royal Ascot when she told BBC viewers her hat sported the leftovers of a pheasant she’d shot and…
If Ruled The World: Max Hastings
I have loved history, especially English history, all my life. Today, however, this noble study has sunk into decay, thanks to dreary teaching and a politically correct exam syllabus that the…
Monster Moths in Britain
Monster moths are kind creatures and often misunderstood. Many people think of moths as rather boring little brown jobs that can be a nuisance when you sit out on a…
Glorious Goshawk
Dame Juliana Berners wrote, in the Boke of St Albans, of the allocation of species of hawk and falcon to their corresponding human ranks in mediaeval society: And yit ther…
Can the RSPB work with gamekeepers?
The merlin, Britain’s smallest raptor, is doing well on managed grouse moors. The respected British Trust for Orni-thology maps the bird’s distribution in England regularly, while the Moorland Association (MA)…
Salmon flies and fly-tying
Megan Boyd became famous in her lifetime as a tyer of the most beautiful and effective salmon flies. She died at a nursing home in Golspie in 2001 but was…