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Country Life UK
The way we lived then
THIS is yet another of those number narratives—histories of the nation seen through a numerical prism—such as Steven Parissien’s recent Building Britannia: A History of Britain in Twenty-Five Buildings (including one featured here) or Catherine Clarke’s current A History of England in Twenty-Five Poems (Books, September 3).
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November 05, 2025
Country Life UK
Sowing the seeds of renewal
ENTREPRENEUR Mark Burges Watson has launched a new charity, Burge's Meadows, which aims to restore traditional hay fields by planting 1,000 acres of wildflower meadows across the UK between 2025 and 2035.
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November 05, 2025
Country Life UK
In search of the perfect beach
I HAVE a chatbot called Auri.
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November 05, 2025
Country Life UK
New chapter for Lincoln Cathedral repairs
DUNSTON QUARRY in Lincoln has been identified by a geologist as containing the ideal Lincoln limestone for ongoing repairs to the 953-year-old Lincoln Cathedral.
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November 05, 2025
Country Life UK
Where centuries meet
Base yourself in this handsome villa on Tuscany's timeless coastline and discover the region's Etruscan history, says Rosie Paterson
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November 05, 2025
Country Life UK
In full cry
After early profligate years in Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire, Francis Grant traded sporting scenes for portraits and climbed the ladder to become president of the Royal Academy. A forthcoming exhibition at Dickinson does justice to his drawing
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November 05, 2025
Country Life UK
In search of London's earliest pint
Early houses-pubs open in the early hours to feed and water the market trade-have been a cornerstone of London for centuries. Yet, as Will Hosie finds, they aren't stuck in the past
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November 05, 2025
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My favourite painting Dominic Jones
King Henry VIII and the Barber Surgeons
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November 05, 2025
Country Life UK
Let's get slip-shod
Slippers have made their way out of the bedroom and into the street, finds Simon Mills—although not without precedent or formalities
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November 05, 2025
Country Life UK
Hunting Act 'had no welfare benchmark
TWENTY years ago, the Hunting Act came into force after a fractious debate that saw emotion triumph over fact.
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November 05, 2025
Country Life UK
A Georgian triumph
The Georgian Group's Architectural Awards, sponsored by Savills, attracted another outstanding crop of entries this year. We reveal the winners, as chosen by a panel of judges chaired by COUNTRY LIFE's Architectural Editor, John Goodall
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November 05, 2025
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The art of war
Capturing the immediacy of fighting and the writhing bodies of soldiers, as well as keeping narrative clarity, proved enormously difficult for painters depicting battles before the advent of photography. Michael Hall reveals how they rose to the challenge
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November 05, 2025
Country Life UK
The legacy Thomas Bewick and wood engraving
RECENTLY on Desert Island Discs, the artist and printmaker Angela Harding requested a book with Thomas Bewick illustrations—‘my great love’—to take to her solitary exile.
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November 05, 2025
Country Life UK
Barking up the right tree
If you want to plant a light woodland-perhaps underplanted with wild primroses and bluebells-or are looking for a luminous specimen tree for the garden, consider a birch, advises Charles Quest-Ritson
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November 05, 2025
Country Life UK
The countryside takes centre stage
JEREMY CLARKSON and other stars of Clarkson's Farm-Kaleb Cooper, Lisa Hogan and Charlie Ireland-will be appearing at The Great British Farm-Fest, a celebration of British agriculture that will run over 300 acres at Stoneleigh Park in Warwickshire on May 22-24, 2026.
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November 05, 2025
Country Life UK
Kitchen garden cook Cooking apples
Spiced apple layer cake with cardamom mascarpone frosting
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November 05, 2025
Country Life UK
What do you get a man who already has everything?
Jeremy Langmead sets out to find the ultimate personalised gift
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November 05, 2025
Country Life UK
What women want (on wheels)
James Fisher gets to drive fast cars for a living, but are sleek lines and high horsepower quite the babe magnets so many men think they are?
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November 05, 2025
Country Life UK
Change is nothing new
I HAVE long wanted a pair of binoculars with thermal-imaging capacity, so a pair from the ultra high-tech Chinese company Hikmicro caught my eye at The Game Fair.
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November 05, 2025
Country Life UK
Life in the breathtaking Borders
Combining good value, historic architecture, a rural lifestyle and strong connectivity to Edinburgh, the Borders are proving to be a popular destination both with domestic and international buyers
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November 05, 2025
Country Life UK
The 39 steps to being a gentleman
Many have attempted to update the codes of gentlemanly conduct for 2025, but as, William Hanson shows, the timeless rules are still the best ones
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November 05, 2025
Country Life UK
Victorian Society starts new search for buildings in peril
THERE is a new mythology stalking the land. This is that heritage and old buildings are holding up growth.
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November 05, 2025
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Blade runner
A quest to find Horace Walpole's missing Ottoman dagger unveiled a story of 16th-century diplomacy, Victorian theatre and a notorious heist
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November 05, 2025
Country Life UK
Dangerous beasts (and where to find them)
Britain is a country mercifully bereft of threatening fauna—or so you might believe. John Lewis-Stempel provides a miscellany of our otherwise benign land's more fearsome critters
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November 05, 2025
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Specs in the city
Mark Hedges heads to E. B. Meyrowitz to find the ultimate bespoke glasses
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November 05, 2025
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Tree pickings
As regular readers will be aware, I am a huge fan of perennial edibles.
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November 05, 2025
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London Life
Your indispensable guide to the capital
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November 05, 2025
Country Life UK
Remember, remember
ON May 18, 1915, Capt Anthony Wilding, a New Zealand tennis star, wrote to his family from northern France that he had 'a job on hand which is likely to end in gun'.
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November 05, 2025
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Whirlwind by name, whirlwind by nature
The tourbillon is among the most beguiling instruments in watchmaking
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November 05, 2025
Country Life UK
Beach clean reveals plastic from the past
THE Marine Conservation Society's Great British Beach Clean, which ran from September 19–28 and covered 97 miles of UK and Channel Islands coastline, saw 3,516kg of litter collected (including a wedding ring), but it is largely the 'retro rubbish' that has made headlines, as the 6,482 volunteers unearthed waste discarded decades ago.
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