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Country Life UK
Building on history: The gardens at Benington Lordship, Stevenage, Hertfordshire
Kathryn Bradley-Hole describes how to take on a renowned garden and make it work for a new generation
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April 29, 2020
Country Life UK
Character, history and style
Columbine Hall, Suffolk The home of Hew Stevenson and Leslie Geddes-Brown A medieval moated manor house has been lovingly re-imagined as the beau idéal of an English country home. Jeremy Musson reports on this remarkable achievement
8 min |
April 29, 2020
Country Life UK
Back to Black Beauty
A hymn to the horse, a comment on slavery, an ode to rural Norfolk: Anna Sewell’s enduringly popular novel is all this and more 200 years after its author’s birth, explains James Clarke
4 min |
April 29, 2020
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How Do You Like Your Eggs In The Morning?
How do you achieve the perfect scramble or poach? How can you tell if an egg is addled? And is that double-yolker lucky or a harbinger of death? Claire Jackson divulges all
6 min |
April 22, 2020
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London In lockdown
In all of its 2,000-year history, it seems unlikely that the City of London has ever stood so silent as it does presently. Can we learn from the quiet, asks Architectural Editor John Goodall
5 min |
April 22, 2020
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Waving the virtual paddle
Online auctions prove successful across the country, from a French nobleman to English watercolours and a stuffed Adélie penguin from Capt Scott’s fatal expedition.
4 min |
April 22, 2020
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Prints charming
Why textiles block printed by hand are all the rage
2 min |
April 22, 2020
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Imagining antiquity
In the 300th anniversary year of Piranesi’s birth, Huon Mallalieu considers the architectural fantasies of one of the most widely recognised names in 18th-century Italian art
3 min |
April 22, 2020
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He's a blooming talent
A rising star of the gardening world on chicken-friendly gardening and admirable women
5 min |
April 22, 2020
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For peat's sake
A bog can store 10 times more carbon than a forest; calling a halt to the use of peat-based products in horticulture is long overdue
4 min |
April 22, 2020
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Coming home to roost
The chickens are reprieved and it’s keep calm and carry on with the calving
3 min |
April 22, 2020
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A sonnet to spring
Once believed to be summoned from slumber by birdsong, spring–from gambolling lambs to pale wood anemones and the rabbity-nosed velvet of ash buds– is a season of timeless joy for John Lewis-Stempel
5 min |
April 22, 2020
Country Life UK
A play on contrasts
The Old Rectory, Litton Cheney, Dorset With the help of Arne Maynard, the many and varying elements of this four-acre garden, once the home of engraver Reynolds Stone, have been beautifully drawn together.
4 min |
April 22, 2020
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Isolation – How To Do It
With humour, impressive variety and a pertinent portrait of a doctor in plague-ridden 17th-century Italy, galleries are coming up trumps online
3 min |
April 15, 2020
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Seeing the woods for the trees
The Government has promised to plant 60 million trees by 2024. It’s a laudable aim, but there are taxing questions to answer about practicalities, such as funding, work force, which species, where to get them from and where to plant them, observes John Grimshaw
5 min |
April 15, 2020
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Lustrous lives
Caroline Bugler is mesmerised by the work of a husband and wife who were among the most inventive artists of their generation
3 min |
April 15, 2020
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Somewhere, over the rainbow
Things were going so well–but the health of the housing market before the coronavirus crisis hit indicates that it can and will recover
4 min |
April 15, 2020
Country Life UK
For love or money
They have evolved from knapsacks to coin purses and to today’s card holders, but does the wallet have a future in our increasingly cashless society, asks Roderick Easdale
4 min |
April 15, 2020
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It's a brave new world
Some plays seem to be standing up remarkably well to screening and even cast new perspectives on old favourites
4 min |
April 15, 2020
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In with the new(builds)
They’re energy efficient, with modern features and contemporary design, and you can move in straight away. Is now the time to buy new?
3 min |
April 15, 2020
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Family politics
Family politics Descendants of famous MPs tell Eleanor Doughty what it’s like to grow up in a house where politics dominate the day to day
6 min |
April 15, 2020
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Commanding silence
In the second of two articles, John Goodall looks at the post-Second World War restoration of Llandaff Cathedral and its outstanding collection of 20th-century furnishings
8 min |
April 15, 2020
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A gentleman and a player
The actor on making an Archers villain loveable and being cast as a ‘slightly dodgy toff’
4 min |
April 15, 2020
Country Life UK
The art of going online
Galleries and dealers are using the difficulty of the lockdown to showcase their wares in virtual forms, from wartime oils to a cleaning lady and a Turk
4 min |
April 08, 2020
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Swimming with otters
Amy Jeffs dips into the life and legacy of St Cuthbert, patron saint of Durham Cathedral
2 min |
April 08, 2020
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The hills are alive
Three properties with ample space for entertaining prove that the best parties happen outside of London
4 min |
April 08, 2020
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Not to be sniffed at
Whatever its name–ramsons, gypsy’s onions, bear leek, snake’s food, stinking Jenny–wild garlic makes for a perfect (and pungent) vivid green pesto, eulogises Tom Parker Bowles
3 min |
April 08, 2020
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Third time's the charm
The cathedral at Llandaff was begun exactly 900 years ago. In the first of two articles, John Goodall looks at the history of this outstanding building before
8 min |
April 08, 2020
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Creative destruction
The felling of seven mature beech in the storms of 1987 offered the chance to make a rare and charming garden, says George Plumptre
5 min |
April 08, 2020
Country Life UK
Where shepherds watch
The striking, dark-grey Herdwick sheep, with its appealing white face and strong homing instinct, is integral to the culture and economy of the Lake District, but farmers feel their way of life is under threat. Tessa Waugh reports
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