From 'Binham blue' to 'Wells Alpine': How a Norfolk farming family, who were up against it with their dairy herd, decided to think differently

From abolitionism to capercaillie reintroduction, the very busy life of an 18th century brewer

Police in Helicopter

A very involved celebration of the beauty of the wood

People need to do much more to save one of our most iconic farmland species

In the past 70 years, Norfolk has lost thousands of ponds but it doesn't take all that much to bring them back to life

It all started by chance but selling venison to local customers is possibly the best thing I've ever done

Why trophy hunters might just be hippies in a roundabout way

Britain’s countryside is in a bad way, even by the standards of fraught global ecologies, but sentimental and spiritual interpretations of its plight detract from the urgency.

In the writing of Patrick Galbraith, country life has won the observer and interpreter it needs.

In the writing of Patrick Galbraith, country life has won the observer and interpreter it needs.

The Irish novelist, Pat McCabe, on the joy and terror of seeing his 1992 masterpiece, The Butcher Boy, get turned into a major film

A pithy and passionate book looks beyond class, clichés and megaphones to scrutinise how we engage with the UK countryside

A pithy and passionate book looks beyond class, clichés and megaphones to scrutinise how we engage with the UK countryside

The Curator of MERL Collections and a different specialist each month discuss themes on a tour of the MERL galleries.