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Dans ce numéro

The Scottish issue Glorious Glamis
47 pages of the best properties for sale The Thirty-Nine Steps: the world of John Buchan How the Glasgow Boys transformed art Autumn is early: what to do with your blackberries

Landscape saviours fight for role

THERE is nothing so disappointing as the discovery that a favourite view has suddenly been despoiled: a line of radio masts has been added, a field of solar panels, a large modern house that's been plopped onto the landscape.

1 mins

Save woods for red squirrels

RED-SQUIRREL aficionados in northern counties have launched a petition against the destruction which landowners are advised to retain at least 20% of woodland for biodiversity.

1 mins

When Britannia ruled the waves

ARTS Minister Sir Chris Bryant has placed an export bar on an extraordinary collection of British maritime charts, valued at $6 million, which is at risk of being sold abroad.

1 mins

The butterfly of mystery emerges

THE results of the annual citizen survey, the Big Butterfly Count, will be announced on September 9, but healthy figures are anticipated thanks to a warm spring that provided plenty for caterpillars to eat, followed by the sunny conditions butterflies prefer in which to fly and mate.

1 mins

Village post offices: have your say

THE Department of Business and Trade (DBT) has warned that the current level of taxpayer funding for the postal service is 'unsustainable'.

1 mins

Keep the waterworks flowing

A CROWDFUNDING appeal is under way to raise $15,000 to restore the Victorian standpipe tower of the London Museum of Water & Steam and reopen it to the public.

1 mins

A castle reborn

Glamis Castle, Angus, part 1 The seat of the Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne In the first of two articles, John Goodall explores the development of this medieval castle and its spectacular transformation into one of the landmark buildings of Scottish architecture

8 mins

Alexander Graham Bell and the telephone

IT is unsurprising that the Edinburgh-born scientist and inventor Alexander Graham Bell (1847–1922) was motivated to improve communication: his mother was deaf, his grandfather and father taught elocution to the deaf and he was a teacher at schools for the deaf in North America, where the family had emigrated, subsequently marrying a former pupil, Mabel Hubbard.

1 mins

Come shell or high water

Rugged coastlines, surging tides and deep, cold water put Scottish shellfish in a class of its own. Nick Hammond heads north to taste his way around some seafood hotspots

5 mins

Wild at heart

He might be best known for his rollicking tales, but there was always more to John Buchan than derring-do. On the 150th anniversary of the author's birth, Jack Watkins looks back at a remarkable writing life rooted in the countryside

5 mins

Singing for England

A master of disguise, inexplicably shy and unpredictably wild, the increasingly rare ring ouzel warrants giving any blackbird a second glance, says Mark Cocker

4 mins

Oh, honey honey

With oodles of vitamin C and potassium, honeyberries are being hailed as the new Scottish superfood, but can they find a place in our kitchens, asks Sarah Todd

4 mins

The designer's room

Hiding the conveniences of modern-day living lends a timeless feel to the kitchen of this 18th-century house

1 mins

The art of the matter

Why contemporary art should become a feature of everyday life

2 mins

Scotland's bonnie banks and braes

Whether by the high road or the low road, there's plenty awaiting buyers north of the Border, from a Baronial estate to a private island

7 mins

Northern exposure

Innovative 21st-century composting and mulching techniques combined with a 19th-century shelterbelt ensure that these famous gardens continue to thrive, writes Caroline Donald

4 mins

Seating plans

SOMETIMES I sits and thinks and sometimes I just sits,' explained Winnie-the-Pooh. How I envy his capacity to do nothing, especially in the garden.

3 mins

The piece I wouldn't part with

Leo Webster may be a picture specialist at Bonhams, but he would choose the kilt he inherited from his paternal grandfather over any work of art, he tells Carla Passino

8 mins

Telling it how it was

From the smoke- blackened ‘engine room of the Empire’ came a group of radical artists that stripped art of heroism and sentiment and took the world by storm. Mary Miers traces the history of The Glasgow Boys

5 mins

A Herculean effort

Earlier in the summer, antiquity sales highlighted the many depictions of the classical world’s most popular hero, including a version with Byronic hair, as well as the extraordinary sculpting and casting progress made by ancient Greece

3 mins

A good night for a fine performance

Television star Sean Hayes is a revelation on stage, Rosamund Pike should be garlanded for her role as a judge who finds her son in the dock and the whole company of Brigadoon takes the laurels

4 mins

Defender of the fish

I HAVE a friend who describes his past career as 'more of a verb than a noun'.

2 mins

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Éditeur: Future

Catégorie: Lifestyle

Langue: English

Fréquence: Weekly

Country Life; architecture, gardens, countryside, property, the very best of British life Published by IPC Media. Country Life, the quintessential English magazine, is undoubtedly one of the biggest and instantly recognisable brands in the UK today. It has a unique core mix of contemporary country-related editorial and top end property advertising. Editorially, the magazine comments in-depth on a wide variety of subjects, such as architecture, the arts, gardens and gardening, travel, the countryside, field-sports and wildlife. With renowned columnists and superb photography Country Life delivers the very best of British life every week.