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Country Life UK
Cracking the art of photographing birds' eggs
THE beauty of birds' eggs has been captured by commercial food and drink photographer Stephen Robert Thornton in a new book, Oology.
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December 24, 2025
Country Life UK
Sweet little lies
Gustav Klimt's Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer made headlines when it was sold last month, but behind the dizzying price and the magnificent artwork hides the story of an ingenious ruse to escape Nazi persecution
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December 24, 2025
Country Life UK
It's down to the pub
COUNTRY people are rooted in their local communities.
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December 24, 2025
Country Life UK
My new best friends are unreal
If you are wired for nostalgia, it can take you in unexpected ways.
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December 24, 2025
Country Life UK
A gem of a show in the heart of Paris
In a collaboration between the V&A Museum and the Al Thani Collection, 140 jewels are being displayed together at the Hôtel de la Marine in Paris, France, once the royal furniture repository where Louis XVI exhibited the crown jewels to the public one day a month.
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December 24, 2025
Country Life UK
Nature on track
Endangered bumblebees, sifting spoonbills and trespassing tortoises- Britain's rail network is a rich and unlikely wildlife haven, finds Vicky Liddell
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December 24, 2025
Country Life UK
Climbing walls
OF all the trees that are in the wood, the holly bears the crown' or so the carol tells us.
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December 24, 2025
Country Life UK
100 years ago in COUNTRY LIFE December 19, 1925
I AM at present suffering from of 15, who, with the independence of the modern generation, refuses flatly to recognise that she is coming to years of discretion, and that the time has come when she should change over to the only decent manner of riding for a woman, viz., the side-saddle.
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December 24, 2025
Country Life UK
The missing lynx in the food chain?
Beavers and red kites may be flourishing in Britain, but the reintroduction of apex predators here is a trickier issue. Could there be practical and philosophical benefits and would a trial release of lynx be a worthwhile experiment?
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December 24, 2025
Country Life UK
Georgie Wykeham turned a Georgian coach house with stables into an entertaining space, complete with a kitchen and wine cellar
WHEN the owners of a Georgian house in Hampshire asked interior designer Georgie Wykeham for help redesigning their coach house, she could barely push her way in through the door to examine the possibilities.
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December 24, 2025
Country Life UK
Small, but mighty
Being diminutive in size is no obstacle to character and charm when it comes to miniature railways and their endearing locomotives, discovers Octavia Pollock
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December 24, 2025
Country Life UK
What you might have missed
I have been checking the betting sites to see who might play the next James Bond, having convinced myself that Jeff Bezos (who now owns the franchise) will make the Big Announcement at Christmas.
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December 24, 2025
Country Life UK
All signals green
Gently tended by devoted staff, the country-station garden has become a rural idyll in its own right, says Andrew Martin
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December 24, 2025
Country Life UK
Historic England unveils this year's 'unusual' listings
A MOTLEY array of site types, from an 'enchanted' interwar garden populated by elves, pixies and fairies to a Victorian church kitted out in corrugated iron, stars in Historic England's celebration of its 19 most unusual listings granted protection in 2025.
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December 24, 2025
Country Life UK
Illegal waste dumping problem heats up
THE now infamous mountain of illegally dumped waste near Kidlington, Oxfordshire, first reported by locals in June, is still there—150m by 6m (490ft by 20ft), stinking, heating up and leaching into the waters of the River Cherwell.
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December 24, 2025
Country Life UK
Mind the (hungry) gap!
Whether Metroland breakfasts or picnics on the go, the railways have transformed how we eat forever
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December 24, 2025
Country Life UK
Scholars start search for long forgotten Celtic words
ΑCADEMICS at Aberystwyth University are compiling a dictionary of the ancient Celtic languages of Britain and Ireland that were spoken before the arrival of the Romans and up to about the year 500.
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December 24, 2025
Country Life UK
Full steam ahead
The railway revolution opened up new destinations, expanded our culinary horizons and dramatically improved trade.
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December 24, 2025
Country Life UK
Town Mouse Democratic overenthusiasm
IN the final days before Christmas, London sheds the final some of its character as a working city and prepares in earnest for the holidays.
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December 24, 2025
Country Life UK
Kitchen garden cook Chestnuts
Baked gnocchi with chestnuts, pancetta and Parmesan
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December 24, 2025
Country Life UK
Rhythm of the night
The appeal of being lulled to sleep as a sleeper train rattles homewards is synonymous with adventure and romance, says Mary Miers
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December 24, 2025
Country Life UK
It wasn't all bad
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December 24, 2025
Country Life UK
Lords unleashes support for dog-worrying bill
THE House of Lords gave the green light to the TH Dogs (Protection of Livestock) (Amendment) Bill earlier this month, meaning tougher penalties for irresponsible dog owners.
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December 24, 2025
Country Life UK
THE BOURNEMOUTH BELLE
cheapened food distribution just as the railways had: London's Somers Town Goods Yard, a once proud two-storey hub for fresh produce, closed in 1973 (the British Library now stands on its site).
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December 24, 2025
Country Life UK
Why don't we ask the next train to take our love to Daddy?
The myriad tracks and carriages of the British rail network have proved fruitful inspiration for generations of writers, says Deborah Nicholls-Lee
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December 24, 2025
Country Life UK
Charlotte Mullins comments on Il Mondo Nuovo
GIOVANNI DOMENICO TIEPOLO trained -under his father, the acclaimed Venetian painter Giambattista Tiepolo, and spent two decades working as his assistant in the mid 18th century.
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December 24, 2025
Country Life UK
Assessing the impact of a true 'starchitect'
THE Oxford English Dictionary, notes that the word 'starchitect' was invented in 1987 and defines it as 'a quasi-celebrity with a conspicuous stylistic signature which is applied regardless of function'.
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December 24, 2025
Country Life UK
A revival in happy concert
The Cathedral Church of St Peter, Exeter, Devon, part II In the second of two articles, John Goodall looks at an ambitious restoration project to the choir and cloister of this great medieval cathedral completed in 2025 and its historical background
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December 24, 2025
Country Life UK
Fifty shades of tartan
Rupert Campbell-Black rides again as the Duke of Inchtyra, impoverished laird of rock and bog'
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December 10, 2025 ( Double Issue )
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The lion's share
As C. S. Lewis's enchanting children's classic The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe turns 75, Matthew Dennison pulls back the coats to explore its evergreen spell
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