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Country Life UK
Welcome to the new jazz age
There's more than a whiff of swing in the air-and on the airwaves. Will Hosie explores the resurrection of one of music's most gentlemanly genres
7 min |
November 05, 2025
Country Life UK
Stopping to remember
WHEN the clocks strike 11am on November 11, thoughts turn to the men and women who made unimaginable sacrifices for their countries during war.
1 min |
November 05, 2025
Country Life UK
Time to go Dutch
THE Netherlands should cheer us all. The country's recent election results show that the far right and the far left are not today's inevitable winners.
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November 05, 2025
Country Life UK
We should remember more
THE establishment of the Imperial War Graves Commission in 1917 in response to the unimaginable scale of slaughter during the First World War established a completely new principle: that the State was responsible for the decent burial and memorialisation of those that had fought for it. The Commission treated the dead with strict equality.
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November 05, 2025
Country Life UK
A dynastic seat
Dorfold Hall, Cheshire, part I The home of Charles and Dr Candice Roundell, An outstanding Jacobean house was an unexpected product of dynastic disappointment. John Goodall examines the remarkable circumstances of its construction
7 min |
November 05, 2025
Country Life UK
Get me to the church in time
Parish churches need the same campaigning energy that saved the great country houses 50 years ago
3 min |
November 05, 2025
Country Life UK
Without gardeners, we are lost
YOU might think it unlikely, but making a garden for someone is thrilling. A telephone call out of the blue, a drive to some distant part of the country, knocking on the door of a strange house and meeting not only a new person, but a new garden. That first meeting bursts with potential —the views, the house, the trees, the flaws, the treasures and also the people. It is a bit like a blind date. We circle around each other, me trying to work out what the site needs and the client wants. How much gardening do they want to do? Will they employ help or do it all themselves? Kitchen garden? Ponds? Orchards? How much do they want to spend?
3 min |
October 29, 2025
Country Life UK
Where the land is art
Nick Dakin-Elliot, who gardens in Tuscany, is still moved by the Italian hilltop gardens that command some of the most beautiful views in the world
5 min |
October 29, 2025
Country Life UK
Speak of the Devil
Taking as many guises as his names, the Prince of Lies turned at times into a man-devouring ogre, a mutant medley of claws, horns and wings, or the brooding rebel that lit the imagination of Romantic painters
10 min |
October 29, 2025
Country Life UK
Magic and mystery
October brings the first of the frosts, bewitching mist, the turning of leaves and a host of other- worldly visitors
4 min |
October 29, 2025
Country Life UK
This lady is on fire
A cyanotype of a fern leaf by early photographer Anna Atkins soared above its estimate in Surrey and 'the most striking likeness' of Horatio Nelson is drawing every eye at the LAPADA Fair
3 min |
October 29, 2025
Country Life UK
Rhapsody in blue
With its majestic proportions and astonishing turn of speed-it can swim faster than a battleship-the bluefin tuna is poetry in motion
3 min |
October 29, 2025
Country Life UK
There's no place like home
The House of Commons, Palace of Westminster, London SW1
8 min |
October 29, 2025
Country Life UK
Supporting cast
From landing hulking catfish on the Zambezi to talking tackle with Ted Hughes, COUNTRY LIFE's fishing correspondent looks back on seven colourful decades
5 min |
October 29, 2025
Country Life UK
The legacy The 2nd Earl of Leicester and driven shooting
At the end of the 19th century, when driven pheasant shooting was at its zenith, the sport on offer at British estates was the envy of the world and none more so than at Holkham, a 25,000-acre wild-bird bastion on the wind-lashed north Norfolk coast.
1 min |
October 29, 2025
Country Life UK
Fade to grey
Smothering, transformative and beautiful, fog's close-set shroud has inspired titans of literature, cinema and art-and forces the rest of us to look at the world a little closer
4 min |
October 29, 2025
Country Life UK
Nice day for a black pudding
Although it's now a beloved breakfast staple, the divisively delicious blood sausage has had a chequered and visceral history
6 min |
October 29, 2025
Country Life UK
Unbridled havens
For horse lovers everywhere, these five properties boast facilities-from stables to solariums-that are the stuff of equestrian dreams
3 min |
October 29, 2025
Country Life UK
Join the stag party
From Shakespeare to treasured stalking trophies and scientific study, antlers in all their aspects never fail to impress and inspire
6 min |
October 29, 2025
Country Life UK
Where the streets had no name
In a John Behan bronze, collector Jacqueline O'Donovan, a child of the Irish diaspora, can sense the desperation of a starving people forced to flee their land
4 min |
October 29, 2025
Country Life UK
Woven into history
Once the country seat of Liverpool wool barons turned shipping tycoons, Gyrn Castle is now seeking new custodians, as is Tudor Revival-style Fulford Hall, the Victorian seat of a frontier adventurer
5 min |
October 29, 2025
Country Life UK
Go on, then.
Few things feel more British than downing tools between breakfast and lunch for a hot drink and something sweet, declares
2 min |
October 29, 2025
Country Life UK
Smooth operators
Unfairly maligned as a sneaky troublemaker, the quicksilver ferret is a characterful, curious and highly intelligent creature–with fascinating regal and cultural trappings to boot
7 min |
October 29, 2025
Country Life UK
I've got that Friday feelin'
With its roots in Norse mythology, the fear of Friday is one of the oldest and most persistent superstitions
3 min |
October 29, 2025
Country Life UK
Made in Britain for millennia
USEFULLY, we have the exact date when our national art was born. On December 10, 1768, the Royal Academy of Arts officially came into being.
3 min |
October 15, 2025
Country Life UK
Noblesse oblige
‘Chaucer’s chivalric code would deal with 99% of the modern gentleman’s quandaries’
2 min |
October 15, 2025
Country Life UK
Packing a redemptive Punch
A play about parents meeting the man who killed their son is deeply affecting and an Irish import deserves to be described as a modern classic, but the new direction of the National Theatre gets off to a shaky start
4 min |
October 15, 2025
Country Life UK
A labour of love
When antique dealer Will Green set out to create a kitchen that is both sympathetic to his historic home and suited to his young family, he used clay dug out of the ground below, distemper made from rabbit glue and 19th-century furniture to bring the space to life
4 min |
October 15, 2025
Country Life UK
Beauty within budget
A cottage overlooking the sea in Cornwall and a handsome Georgian townhouse in Lincolnshire are only two of the prime properties currently on the market for less than $1 million
3 min |
October 15, 2025
Country Life UK
Texts in the city
Eccentric, awe-inspiring and a home-from-home for literary giants, the London Library is an institution like no other and anyone can join it. As it celebrates 180 years in St James's Square, Emma Hughes steps inside
8 min |