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Dive in with both feet
Do you know your great crested grebe from your little grebe? Your red-throated from your great northern diver? Marianne Taylor gets to grips with these masters of the underwater world
7 min |
August 21, 2024
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Thistle do nicely
The boorish cousin of the dainty daisy, the emblem of Scotland was historically blamed for donkey flatulence and recommended as a treatment for depression, discovers
5 min |
August 21, 2024
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Building on history
Scone Palace, Perthshire, part I The seat of the Earl and Countess of Mansfield and Mansfield In the first of two articles, John Goodall explains the importance of Scone—and the great abbey that formerly stood here in the grand narrative of Scottish history
8 min |
August 21, 2024
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Complex parenting
BLACKBERRIES are many people’s first—perhaps only—excursion into the world of foraging.
3 min |
August 07, 2024
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A new chapter
The British Museum's Reading Room-where Sylvia Pankhurst and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle once workedhas reopened at last
3 min |
August 07, 2024
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Hotel Casa Lucía, Buenos Aires, Argentina
I’M sitting on the elegant sweep of Calle Arroyo in Buenos Aires.
2 min |
August 07, 2024
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A tale of two artists
A Christie's sale shows that, but for a disinclination to travel, we might talk of Callot with the same reverence as Claude
3 min |
August 07, 2024
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Going Dutch
The visual riches of the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg have enthralled visitors since the 15th century. Michael Hall traces the reasons this small slice of Europe has nurtured some of the world's greatest masters
6 min |
August 07, 2024
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Whimsy in Wales
THE time of year has come for us to pack up the rusty Land Rover Defender and head to north Wales.
2 min |
August 07, 2024
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The new Olympian standard
Island-hopping in Greece has never been easier, or more desirable, owing to a boom in new hotel and villa openings in the Cyclades and beyond. Rosie Paterson rounds up the best
5 min |
August 07, 2024
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Presiding spirits
Catherine FitzGerald is the fourth generation of women in her family to put her mark on the gardens of Glin. Caroline Donald admires her subtle tweaks and new additions
5 min |
August 07, 2024
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A life less ordinary
Unusual properties from North to South, some with inhabitants of note
3 min |
August 07, 2024
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A family affair
A remarkable Edwardian country house is on the market for the first time and wine, cider and hops spice things up at a manoir estate, both in Herefordshire
5 min |
August 07, 2024
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Bottoms up
Why do so many animals have such obviously flashy appendages, asks Laura Parker, as she examines scuts, rumps and rears
5 min |
August 07, 2024
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Up where the air is clear
A shed is merely somewhere to keep tools. A hut, on the other hand, is a doorway to sporting adventure
6 min |
August 07, 2024
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The secret history of flowers
With no written records, the earliest inhabitants of these isles left a living dossier of cultural history in the folklore attached to our wildflowers
6 min |
August 07, 2024
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The legacy Sir Henry Tate and Tate Gallery
WHEN Henry Tate, the 11th child of a Lancashire Unitarian minister, had success as a grocer, he branched out into the sugar business (by then less tainted by slavery, which had been abolished in 1833–34).
1 min |
August 07, 2024
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A consolation and pleasure
Prince Albert took a close interest in architecture and oversaw a series of major building projects. Michael Hall considers his claims to be thought of as an architect
8 min |
August 07, 2024
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Full steam ahead
The railway may have started its artistic life as a fire-breathing monster that devoured the countryside, but it soon became an emblem of advancing modernity, a cherished memento of the past and even, in the case of one station, the centre of the universe
7 min |
June 19, 2024
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Stars in the East
Continuing from last week, further East Anglian properties include a moat beloved by wildlife, a Georgian hunting lodge on the site of a Civil War battlefield and a well-restored manor with a Tudor-hall wedding venue
6 min |
June 19, 2024
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'The oldest Old Thing in England'
Shakespeare was by no means the first to portray the mischievous Puck, a sprite of ancient lineage, with his ass's head, discovers Ian Morton
2 min |
June 19, 2024
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Coward on a mission
A revival of Noël Coward's final work reminds one of the emotional depth behind the laughs
4 min |
June 19, 2024
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Having the last laugh
Rotting teeth, modelling woes and an appreciation for solemnity have historically conspired to make painted grins a rarity, but beaming faces never fail to beguile, finds Claudia Pritchard
5 min |
June 19, 2024
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Mother of herbs
Enjoying a strange association with childbirth, mugwort is of more use in the kitchen and may even induce 'lucid dreams', finds John Wright
2 min |
June 19, 2024
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Bourne to run
The garden at Emmetts Mill, Chobham, Surrey A flat waterside site has been transformed into a garden full of drama with plenty of delightful places to stop and enjoy the view, writes Kathryn Bradley-Hole
5 min |
June 19, 2024
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Design brought to life
The 2024 WOW!house is a delightful parallel universe of creativity, finds Giles Kime
1 min |
June 19, 2024
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Bend it like Beckham
Chippendale, Scotland's only independent furniture school, bears a huge name to live up to, but with courses in wood-bending, marquetry, upholstery, restoration and more, it is flourishing under a new generation, finds Mary Miers
5 min |
June 19, 2024
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'Makes Buckingham Palace seem rather dull'
The London homes of the British aristocracy were often grander than their country counterparts, palatial without ever being called palaces, says Lucien de Guise
5 min |
June 19, 2024
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Tripping the light fantastic
A lustrous play of colour alchemy, iridescence can intrigue, camouflage and incite desire. Laura Parker immerses herself in one of Nature's greatest special effects
6 min |
June 19, 2024
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Venus was her name
The goddess of love and beauty's naked form caused a stir in the 4th century BC, incensed Suffragettes in the 20th and ruled art history in between and beyond, as Michael Hall reveals
7 min |