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Saving a great naturalist’s home
A CAMPAIGN is under way to raise $1 million towards maintaining the museum in Selborne, Hampshire, founded in memory of the influential 18th-century naturalist and writer the Revd Gilbert White (Legacy, February 19). As an independent museum without public subsidy, increasing utility and staffing costs and a reduction in traditional funding streams are exerting a heavy toll on resources. Anne Edward, of the Funding Development team, reports of the campaign, launched in the spring with a letter to The Times: 'It has started well, with about $28,000 raised from the public to date. If we can inspire 150,000 individuals to donate just $7 in our 70th anniversary year, this will enable us to reach our target. At the same time, we've been active in grant fundraising and have received generous support to assist with core operations.'
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July 16, 2025
Country Life UK
Solar, so good
The thought of losing of productive arable land to renewable-energy developments can be dispiriting and alarming, but informed local knowledge may be the key to their successful design, argues William Kendall
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July 16, 2025
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Are you there God? It's us monks
NEWLY rediscovered music sung by medieval monks will echo evocatively through Buckland Abbey for the first time in five centuries.
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July 09, 2025
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Meet the coastal superheroes
From a heroic long-distance swimmer to a producer of spectacularly eerie sound effects, the seabirds seen swooping and diving over British waters have all manner of singular skills, says
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July 09, 2025
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Tyger, tyger burning bright
When Tipu Sultan resisted Britain's colonial expansion, he was painted as a bogeyman and, after he fell, his kingdom was looted with shocking rapacity, but his legacy has long awed the British—not least William Blake and John Keats, as
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July 09, 2025
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The answer is hoverin’ in the wind
The rise and rise of raptor species has been a major success of the past half century, but it may well have been the downfall of the common kestrel
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July 09, 2025
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Be brave, be unpopular
THE Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, turns out to have been right all along! There was one optimistic conclusion in last week's definitive report from the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) on the serious effects of air pollution: the number of preventable deaths caused by toxic air has fallen from 40,000 a year to 30,000 in less than a decade.
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July 09, 2025
Country Life UK
It’s all about the view
As the second-home market continues to stall, buyers looking to secure a permanent home by the sea have some exciting coastal properties to consider
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July 09, 2025
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My favourite painting Peter Jones
Salvator Mundi, attributed to Leonardo da Vinci
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July 09, 2025
Country Life UK
A smell by any other name
Reminiscent of love and with an unmistakable odour of death, the little stinkers of the natural world might incite repulsion, but they are only doing their job, pleads
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July 09, 2025
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Back to Brideshead
What do an enigmatic Caped Crusader, a sopping-wet Mr Darcy and Lord Eddard Stark of Winterfell have in common? Believe it or not, British country houses, says Ben Lerwill, as he set-jets around the countryside
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July 09, 2025
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Sheer bliss
The garden at Ash Park in the South Hams, Devon The home of Chris and Cathryn Vanderspar
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July 09, 2025
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Long live the queen
In July 1575, Robert Dudley enlisted mythological figures to convince Elizabeth I to wed him. Exactly 450 years later, artist Lindsey Mendick reveals how and why she reinterpreted their encounter in her installation for Kenilworth Castle
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July 09, 2025
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Suits you!
From knee-length numbers to a scandalous suit denounced by the Pope, the colourful history of swimwear has been brought to life by a glamorous London exhibition. Deborah Nicholls-Lee dives in
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July 09, 2025
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The loneliness of the deep-sea diver
HERE are a dozen beaches within walking distance of where we live. The furthest is Long Strand.
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July 09, 2025
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The Experts' Experts
COUNTRY LIFE'S Top 100 designers and architects reveal the outstanding specialists on whom they rely
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July 09, 2025
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Like a duck to water
There's no denying the appeal of waterfront property, which now sells for some 51% more than its inland equivalent, finds Knight Frank. Annabel Dixon explores the shore
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July 09, 2025
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SAVE at 50
On the 50th anniversary of SAVE Britain's Heritage, Simon Jenkins, a trustee since 1975, looks back on the past half century of successes and failures
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July 09, 2025
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Heavy petal
A new book on botanical bas-reliefs—exquisite casts of plants—is a testament to one artist's relationship with the natural world. Catriona Gray meets her
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July 09, 2025
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In the footsteps of a doomed queen
THIS is a Scottish book, through and through.
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July 09, 2025
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À la recherche du temps perdu
LAST month, I revisited our old house in France. We lived on the Cherbourg Peninsula for 14 years and made a garden where we never ran out of space to plant more trees and shrubs.
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July 09, 2025
Country Life UK
Call it a knight
Armigers from the Tudor and Stuart era had their moment last month, with a seal ring linked to Royal Exchange founder Sir Thomas Gresham and a ruffler once owned by philanthropist Sir Edwin Rich causing a stir at auction
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July 09, 2025
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I've got chills, they're multiplying
Descended from the thirst-slakers that cooled Arabian nights, sorbets are a beguiling way to embrace the colours and flavours of the season, salivates
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July 09, 2025
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In God's acre we trust
Home to a veritable ‘Noah's Ark of species’, thanks to never being ploughed, sprayed or fertilised, our churchyards are a sacred haven for flora and fauna
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July 02, 2025
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Walk like an onion
EGYPTIAN walking onions sound almost too good to be true: from one plant, four harvests and, if you do it properly, you can pick them year after year after year.
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July 02, 2025
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Blazing a trail
The Pyrenees reserves its best treasures for walkers prepared to venture off the well-beaten trail, says Teresa Levonian Cole, on a solo holiday in Ribes de Freser
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July 02, 2025
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Stranger things
From topless staddle stones outperforming complete ones to two versions of the same desk selling on the same day 212 miles apart, bizarre occurrences are par for the course at contents sales
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July 02, 2025
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Lost, but not forgotten
The garden of Knowle House, East Sussex George Dillistone's original Arts-and-Crafts design has been lovingly restored and updated with contemporary planting, discovers George Plumptre
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July 02, 2025
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Family affairs
Three stellar estates in Wales and Staffordshire show how careful restoration is always worth the effort
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July 02, 2025
Country Life UK
Jnane Rumi, Marrakech, Morocco
THERE is a case to be made that Marrakech, Morocco, is the world capital of hotels. From boutique riads in the Medina to adobe estates in the desert, the variety and quality is probably unmatched anywhere.
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