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WHEN MY 74-YEAR-OLD FATHER asked me to walk a stretch of the famous Camino de Santiago with him to celebrate his 75th birthday, I said yes.

Artists have long been driven to bridge the gap between humans and the natural world around us.

Professional photography shouldn’t be reserved for special occasions, it’s the simple interactions and the day-to-day that makes up most of our time and it deserves to be captured more often.

Can a pale ale change the world? Activist and beer maker Louisa Ziane thinks it can

At London’s newly reopened Museum of the Home, the trends of British domestic life over four centuries are chronicled in evocative detail. But, learns Ellie Fazan, finding the essence of home lies in understanding the feelings and needs that remain very similar down the generations

Ellie Fazan visits former mill town Long Eaton to meet the suppliers of sofas to the Cotswold Company and finds out how they are keeping proud local traditions of upholstery alive by producing quality handcrafted furniture

Rolling fields, native wildlife and much-loved livestock are the key ingredients for superb English fare. Add passionate producers, and you’re in for something extra special

We meet some of our Fairtrade suppliers and learn how a few simple choices can help to change lives. From chocolate to coffee and quinoa, buying Fairtrade can improve living and working conditions for farmers, support the fight against child slavery and help cope with the challenges of climate change

When it comes to creating a classic gin, it turns out that less really is more. We go behind the scenes of a distillery whose ethos of simplicity produces a gin as deep, cool and clear as the waters of the Cumbrian lakes that inspired its creation