goose or turkey

Eleanor Doughty in defence of the goose Ding ding ding! The Christmas birds are in the ring. Goose or turkey? I know whose corner I’m in: the goose. Or, as we call it in my family, the long-necked chicken. This, of course, began as a classic parental ruse, and it’s…

The Field (or Country Gentleman’s Newspaper) trotted smartly off the printing presses for the first time in 1853 and became the indigenous organ of enthusiastic sporting households. Our first correspondent to the Letters page (a prospectus of the publication had been sent to those likely to take the paper) summed…

This month we celebrate HM The Queen’s Jubilee and all things British. In commemoration of the Platinum Jubilee we have exclusive content from The Field’s archives, The Queen as a monarch and as a sporting countrywoman. We muse on what has changed over the last 70 years of Elizabeth II’s…