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Dabbling with pretty ducks
Ornamental waterfowl are an endlessly cheering and fascinating addition to any stretch of water, but they can make a mess. Vicky Liddell asks experienced keepers for their advice
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October 26, 2022
Country Life UK
‘Governed for God’s praise’
In the first of two articles, David Robinson revisits an exceptional and little-known survival of the Premonstratensian canons, one of the less-familiar monastic and religious orders of medieval Britain
8 min |
October 26, 2022
Country Life UK
This fortress built by Nature for herself
COUNTRY LIFE’s Picture Editor Lucy Ford salutes the wild and often untamed beauty of Britain with her pick of the striking images from this year’s Landscape Photographer of the Year Awards
1 min |
October 26, 2022
Country Life UK
The empathy of accompanists
A soloist may get top billing, but, as all professionals know, the recital is really a team effort of equals with their piano accompanist. Henrietta Bredin talks to one of the great exponents of that art
4 min |
October 12, 2022
Country Life UK
Newt tales
HAVE you seen The Newt?' It was the question everyone asked me back in the summer of 2019. Friends said that I would like it.
3 min |
October 12, 2022
Country Life UK
Burnished credentials
The garden at Blackland House, Calne, Wiltshire The home of Mr and Mrs Ed Nicholson Famous for its spring bulbs, this garden comes into its own in autumn with its crisp underpinning of geometric forms, says Mary Keen
4 min |
October 12, 2022
Country Life UK
Manors maketh Man
Two centuries-old manor houses wear their history well-one is connected to our Nine Days' Queen, Lady Jane Grey
5 min |
October 12, 2022
Country Life UK
A passion for pattern
Tess Newall has taken time off from painting murals to design a collection of wallpaper and lampshades, finds.
3 min |
October 12, 2022
Country Life UK
Splendid isolation
What did the legendary interior designer Veere Grenney learn from spending lockdown in a Palladian folly? Giles Kime finds out
3 min |
October 12, 2022
Country Life UK
Together in eclectic dreams
Next week, Anouska Hempel, high priestess of carefully considered eclecticism and founder of Blakes Hotel, will be honoured at the V&A Museum
2 min |
October 12, 2022
Country Life UK
A tomb with a view
Long or round, large or small, prehistoric tumuli dot the countryside. Vicky Liddell explores the history, folklore and literary influence of burial mounds or barrows and reveals how they were nearly lost to the 18th-century digging mania
6 min |
October 12, 2022
Country Life UK
In praise of decency
Queuing for hours to pay tribute to our Queen was a typically moving display of British thoughtfulness, but other examples abound in the countryside, finds Margaret Casely-Hayford
3 min |
October 12, 2022
Country Life UK
A seat of legal learning - Lincoln's Inn, London WC2, part II The Honourable Society of Lincoln's Inn
In the second of two articles, John Goodall examines the architectural development of Lincoln's Inn from the late 17th century to the present day
7 min |
October 12, 2022
Country Life UK
For love of Florence
Tom Richards will soon be head of the Florence Academy of Art. He speaks to Arabella Youens
3 min |
October 12, 2022
Country Life UK
In search of sunshine
Arabella Youens explores what you can buy (and how far your budget will go) in short- and long-haul destinations
3 min |
October 12, 2022
Country Life UK
A perfect pearing
IF pears were a person, you'd have nothing to do with them.
4 min |
October 05, 2022
Country Life UK
Flame throwers - Thenford Arboretum, Thenford House, Northamptonshire The home of Lord and Lady Heseltine
More than 3,000 different trees–in particular, the fine collections of oaks and maples–are about to put on a striking autumn show, writes Charles Quest-Ritson
6 min |
October 05, 2022
Country Life UK
Speaking truth to power
Cartoonists have been holding political figures to account since the Georgian era. Charles Harris retraces the history of a proud tradition of British satire
7 min |
October 05, 2022
Country Life UK
St Martin-in-the-Fields
IT may not be the first name on their lips when people talk about famous places of worship, but St Martin-in-the-Fields is the most visible parish church in London, at the centre of the tourist route and a regular background feature for city inhabitants going about their daily business. It's fortunate that it is the prettiest church in the capital, easily holding its own against the larger buildings that have sprung up around since its first stone was laid 300 years ago this year.
3 min |
October 05, 2022
Country Life UK
My favourite painting Cecilia McDowall
Charlotte Mullins comments on Annunciation
1 min |
October 05, 2022
Country Life UK
Wild about you
A longtime source of inspiration for authors and artists, wild animals were once considered acceptable household pets and beloved companions, finds Jeremy Hobson
4 min |
October 05, 2022
Country Life UK
Called to the Bar: Lincoln's Inn, London WC2, part I The Honourable Society of Lincoln's Inn
This year, Lincoln's Inn celebrates a remarkable 600th anniversary. In the first of two articles, John Goodall examines the origins of this celebrated society of lawyers
7 min |
October 05, 2022
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Trees for life
The Woodland Trust was set up as a Nature-conservation charity specifically concerned with trees. Clive Aslet visits its south Devon birthplace of 50 years ago and remembers its far-sighted and altruistic founder
5 min |
October 05, 2022
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THE CAPITAL ACCORDING TO... Howard Jacobson
Booker Prize-winner Howard Jacobson talks to Harry McKinley about life in Soho and London's best bagel
3 min |
October 05, 2022
Country Life UK
Table for two, per favore
Emma Hughes presents the best international restaurants in London right now
4 min |
October 05, 2022
Country Life UK
Ghost town
Many out there believe that the capital's streets, pubs and even hospitals are home to myriad ghosts-a few friendly, some less so. On a walk through some of these supposedly haunted sites, Carla Passino tries to separate fact from fiction
5 min |
October 05, 2022
Country Life UK
A voyage of discovery
A cruise on the beautiful River Severn offers a unique way to discover the heart of England
1 min |
September 21, 2022
Country Life UK
The beautiful game
ILLUSTRATING a highly popular activity that paused for a few days earlier this month out of respect for the death of our late Queen Elizabeth II, L. S. Lowry's Going to the Match, painted in 1953, for an exhibition in honour of the Football Association's 90th anniversary, is set to kick-off a few ripples in the art market when it goes under the hammer next month.
1 min |
September 21, 2022
Country Life UK
My favourite painting Stella loannou
Where Do We Come From, What Are We, Where Are We Going? by Emma Talbot
2 min |
September 21, 2022
Country Life UK
Aerofilms Collection
by Claude Grahame-White and Francis Lewis Wills
3 min |