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Country Life UK
Wee three kings
We are all familiar with the diminutive wren, yet its tiny fellow kinglets the goldcrest and firecrest are, perhaps understandably, often overlooked. Ian Morton studies our smallest birds
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November 18, 2020
Country Life UK
The winners are…
For the second year, Historic Houses and COUNTRY LIFE joined forces with Neptune to find great examples of new kitchens in old spaces. Last week, John Sims-Hilditch, co-founder of Neptune, announced the joint winners and a runner-up, all of whom have found highly inventive solutions to the challenge of creating a 21st-century kitchen in a listed building
1 min |
November 18, 2020
Country Life UK
Beautiful Britain
Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty
2 min |
November 18, 2020
Country Life UK
At your convenience
It might be the smallest room in the house and the butt of many a joke, but it is surely one of the most revealing. Bronwen Riley investigates the smartest loos in the land
7 min |
November 18, 2020
Country Life UK
Seeing is believing
Exquisitely crafted from hand-dyed silks and velvets, Anne Tomlin’s uncannily realistic flower pieces possess a beauty that will never fade, discovers Natasha Goodfellow
5 min |
November 18, 2020
Country Life UK
Finding new purpose
The re-use of architectural materials and elements has a long and surprising history that’s all too easy to overlook, as John Goodall explains
3 min |
November 18, 2020
Country Life UK
Baroque delights
A major restoration project, winner of a Georgian Group award in 2019, has revived a magnificent house inspired by the architecture of Baroque Rome. John Martin Robinson reports
9 min |
November 18, 2020
Country Life UK
A work of history
Two homes with substantial stories to tell prepare to hit the market in North Yorkshire and Devon
5 min |
November 18, 2020
Country Life UK
The Acer Up Our Sleeves
Condemned as a weed tree, the sycamore is blamed for leaves on the line and sticky windscreens, but are we overlooking a pollution-tolerant specimen that plants itself for free, asks Jack Watkins
6 min |
November 11, 2020
Country Life UK
They Kept The Show On The Road
Frustratingly, the curtain has fallen on stages everywhere, but there have been some valiant efforts to bring entertainment–and a superb new biography of a great playwright
5 min |
November 11, 2020
Country Life UK
To Italy For The Roses
Gardeners like plants that do well for them and, for the Italians, there is no flower more adored than the rose. They have become connoisseurs, says the rosarian Charles Quest-Ritson, creating some of the finest rose gardens in the world
7 min |
November 11, 2020
Country Life UK
Deck The Halls With Homegrown Holly
Even on the darkest days, there is always fresh foliage to pick, but plant with winter in mind and you can adorn your house with scented flowers, gleaming leaves and bright berries, says Val Bourne
5 min |
November 25, 2020
Country Life UK
The long way home
Struck down by Covid-19 earlier this year, Robin Hanbury-Tenison spent five weeks in a coma and was close to death. Now, he is valiantly fundraising for more of the healing hospital gardens he believes helped save him
4 min |
November 11, 2020
Country Life UK
The Glorious Dead
This year is the centenary of the unveiling of the Whitehall Cenotaph on Armistice Day in 1920. John Goodall explains how this famous monument came into existence and became a fixture in the nation’s consciousness
4 min |
November 11, 2020
Country Life UK
Treasure island
JW Marriott Maldives
2 min |
November 11, 2020
Country Life UK
Making a point
The first obelisk to be erected in Europe was a trophy of war. Loyd Grossman considers how these ancient monuments came to be understood and became the mark of every great city
6 min |
November 11, 2020
Country Life UK
March of the ants
Insects are seldom loved and are often loathed, feared or disregarded, but they are an integral part of our ecosystem. In an extract from his new book, Framing Nature, Laurence Rose joins the effort to save the narrow-headed ant
9 min |
November 11, 2020
Country Life UK
Changing views
Environmental art is all the rage, but, for landscape painters, it was never out of fashion. Laura Gascoigne finds out why
9 min |
November 11, 2020
Country Life UK
Away with the fairies
One hundred years ago, two girls convinced the world they had photographed fairies at the bottom of their garden. However did they get away with it, asks Richard Sugg
4 min |
November 11, 2020
Country Life UK
Let's Drink To The Château D'yquem Of Apples
A Visit to a well-organised apple store in November is always a wonderful experience. The early eaters that, although lovely, will not keep, are a distant memory. We now see before us those sterling kinds that ripen on the tree in October, but whose flavour and texture will improve with proper storage—cool, dark, frost-free— and will keep in good order until at least the following March.
3 min |
November 25, 2020
Country Life UK
Pilgrims' progress
Taking a break from work on his Herefordshire farm, John Lewis-Stempel and his son, Tristram, tackle the historic Camino Francés pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela in Spain
4 min |
November 25, 2020
Country Life UK
Once lost, now found
Featured in Vogue and modelled for Princess Margaret, a haute-couture Dior dress then vanished for 50 years. V&A curator Claire Wilcox describes a fashion mystery
3 min |
November 25, 2020
Country Life UK
Quintessential Georgian
Three glorious Georgian properties come to the market, in Wiltshire, Cheshire and Co Durham
4 min |
November 25, 2020
Country Life UK
The forgotten works of Fabergé
When Geoffrey Munn saw a flash of purple and gold in a crowded cabinet, he instinctively knew he had stumbled upon a lost cache of pieces by the imperial Russian jeweller–but who were the regal-looking women pictured in the enamel frames?
6 min |
November 25, 2020
Country Life UK
Centuries in the making
As Partagás celebrates 175 years, our correspondent reflects on his epiphany and subsequent conversion to the brand
4 min |
November 25, 2020
Country Life UK
The stuff of fairy tales
Gingerbread will forever be associated with that little house in the woods, but it was also a firm favourite with Elizabeth I. Inspired by a collection of extravagant moulds, Rosie Goodwin of the Ryedale Folk Museum explores the origins of a festive favourite
5 min |
November 25, 2020
Country Life UK
Holmes, sweet Holmes
Sherlock Holmes had an eye for architectural detail, an interest derived from his creator, Arthur Conan Doyle. Jeremy Musson looks at how it emerges in the books, with the help of specially commissioned drawings
8 min |
November 25, 2020
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A prince's passion
Michael Prodger is fascinated by a pioneering royal project devoted to the collecting and reproducing of the Renaissance Master’s works
3 min |
November 25, 2020
Country Life UK
When Geography Matters
When is a Cornish pasty not a Cornish pasty?
1 min |
November 04, 2020
Country Life UK
You've been framed
Want to cultivate serious specs appeal? Emma Hughes gathers advice from those in the know
5 min |