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Country Life UK
A Cotswold capital
During the Civil War, Oxford briefly became Charles I's capital. Simon Thurley explains how the city was fortified and the university adapted to accommodate the Court
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September 21, 2022
Country Life UK
It's time we came back to earth
The excitement over space travel is overblown, says the (terrestrial) explorer Robin Hanbury-Tenison. Instead of reaching for the stars, we should be marvelling at and caring for what we already have on our own planet
3 min |
September 21, 2022
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In search of black magic
After years of decline, English truffle hunting is enjoying an exciting revival. Ben Lerwill heads to the Cotswolds to join the search for this highly prized fungus
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September 21, 2022
Country Life UK
Going with the flow
Once the most fertile land on a farm, water meadows are now increasingly valued for the huge diversity of life they sustain, as Natasha Goodfellow discovers on a tour of some of the Cotswolds's best examples
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September 21, 2022
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Faking it
Real or faux marble? Amelia Thorpe weighs the pros and cons of the two options
2 min |
September 21, 2022
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Pure enchantment
The lure of the Cotswolds never wavers, as these five new to the market properties show
5 min |
September 21, 2022
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Elizabeth the Steadfast
Elizabeth II, Britain's longest-serving monarch, embodied the traditional values of duty, fidelity and constancy throughout her glorious reign, yet always managed to move with the times. Matthew Dennison pays tribute
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September 14, 2022
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Rural business to receive helping hand
A NEW Government initiative to boost investment in the rural economy has been welcomed by countryside organisations. CLA president Mark Tufnell describes it as ‘the first steps towards delivering a robust and ambitious plan to create economic growth in the countryside’. Earlier this month,
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September 14, 2022
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Proof of a nation's love
IN the hours after the news from Balmoral, I walked through St James’s Park, joining little streams of others converging on Buckingham Palace. Reaching the road, we found many more coming down the Mall.
2 min |
September 14, 2022
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Athena Cultural Crusader Glasgow's magnificent temple to the Arts
A THENA recently had the good fortune to travel through Glasgow on her way to the Highlands. The city was bustling with life and bathed in sunshine. It was also overwhelmed with rubbish, a consequence of the bin strike, with great ziggurats of boxes, cups and bags stacked up on every street corner.
2 min |
September 14, 2022
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Elegy Written In A Country Churchyard
Thomas Gray
3 min |
September 14, 2022
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The majesty of slate
Silenced Welsh quarries evoke a vanishing world
3 min |
September 14, 2022
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Treasures from South Africa
Clusters of delicate flowers, often in muted colours, will bloom for several months, making tulbaghia an irresistible garden plant, writes John Hoyland
5 min |
September 14, 2022
Country Life UK
Testing boundaries
We are a nation of hedge lovers-and rightly so-but there are myriad traditional means of dividing land and containing livestock that are both charming and a boon to wildlife. Octavia Pollock reports
4 min |
September 14, 2022
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Each month of this 125th-anniversary year, COUNTRY LIFE illustrates a period in the development of the English great house. In the ninth of this 12-part series, John Goodall looks at developments during the Regency
ON October 5, 1826, Hermann, Prince of Pückler-Muskau, wrote from London to announce his safe arrival in England. The letter was one in a whole series written to his former wife over a period of three years that described a tour of England,
8 min |
September 14, 2022
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Neither beautiful nor useful
THE RHS has taken leave of its senses, telling us to share our gardens with slugs, wasps and vine weevils.This is bad news for plants-which are what the RHS is all about and it's not what gardeners want to hear.
3 min |
September 14, 2022
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Little frizzle and other spooky stories.
Now a thriving tourist spot, the Isle of Mull was once a perilous place to survive-particularly if you stumbled upon its multitude of myths and magic, believes Helen Fields
4 min |
September 14, 2022
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Sea fever
In the aftermath of civil war, one of the great painters of the New World developed a highly expressive and personal language to explore Man's connection with wild Nature, conflict and race
5 min |
September 07, 2022
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In the dead of the nightshade
Employed by Roman archers to poison arrows, by emperors' wives to achieve widowhood and by Cleopatra to enhance her beauty, folklore has not exaggerated the fatal tendencies of belladonna
6 min |
September 07, 2022
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The secret to growing coriander
CORIANDER might be the most global of herbs, bold enough to combine with flavours from lemongrass to chilli in food cultures as diverse as Indian and Mexican.
3 min |
September 07, 2022
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Field trials
The Prairie at The Barn, Serge Hill, Hertfordshire The home of Mr and Mrs Tom Stuart-Smith
5 min |
September 07, 2022
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Family affairs
Past grandeurs flourish again at two elegant country houses, one overlooking Blenheim Palace and the other rolling Hampshire parkland
4 min |
September 07, 2022
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The 21st-century country house
At this month's Focus/22, COUNTRY LIFE will host an event at which interior designer Emma Sims-Hilditch will discuss the changing face of the English country house
1 min |
September 07, 2022
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Playing with history
A post-Modern livery hall that is a striking home for an ancient company can teach us something about sensitive development in London.
7 min |
September 07, 2022
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Confessions of a lifetime
The author on the painful memories evoked in his new memoir
4 min |
September 07, 2022
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The Great Tower, Dover Castle
WHETHER the Norman Conquest of England was, as maintained by those notable authorities W. C. Sellar and R. J. Yeatman in 1066 And All That, ‘a good thing’ has been much debated by scholars.
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September 07, 2022
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Lily of the Valley by Charlotte Verity
My favourite painting Shane Connolly
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September 07, 2022
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Old in name, but not in nature
Six years ago, the Government sold the War Office– Sir Winston Churchill’s former haunt and the heart of First and Second World War logistics–on a 250-year lease. On the eve of its rebirth as a luxury hotel, Clive Aslet looks back its extraordinary history
5 min |
September 07, 2022
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Go with the flow
The banks of the River Thames are littered with historical houses and royal residences, says Carla Passino, who advocates experiencing them all on a walk upstream
5 min |
September 07, 2022
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‘I gave up my career for the Sealyham’
A lot of vulnerable native breeds have their fans, but not all have someone as determined to save them as Harry Parsons. Julie Harding travels to Sealyham HQ to meet his latest litter of puppies
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