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Country Life UK
March of the ants
Insects are seldom loved and are often loathed, feared or disregarded, but they are an integral part of our ecosystem. In an extract from his new book, Framing Nature, Laurence Rose joins the effort to save the narrow-headed ant
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November 11, 2020
Country Life UK
Changing views
Environmental art is all the rage, but, for landscape painters, it was never out of fashion. Laura Gascoigne finds out why
9 min |
November 11, 2020
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Away with the fairies
One hundred years ago, two girls convinced the world they had photographed fairies at the bottom of their garden. However did they get away with it, asks Richard Sugg
4 min |
November 11, 2020
Country Life UK
Let's Drink To The Château D'yquem Of Apples
A Visit to a well-organised apple store in November is always a wonderful experience. The early eaters that, although lovely, will not keep, are a distant memory. We now see before us those sterling kinds that ripen on the tree in October, but whose flavour and texture will improve with proper storage—cool, dark, frost-free— and will keep in good order until at least the following March.
3 min |
November 25, 2020
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Pilgrims' progress
Taking a break from work on his Herefordshire farm, John Lewis-Stempel and his son, Tristram, tackle the historic Camino Francés pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela in Spain
4 min |
November 25, 2020
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Once lost, now found
Featured in Vogue and modelled for Princess Margaret, a haute-couture Dior dress then vanished for 50 years. V&A curator Claire Wilcox describes a fashion mystery
3 min |
November 25, 2020
Country Life UK
Quintessential Georgian
Three glorious Georgian properties come to the market, in Wiltshire, Cheshire and Co Durham
4 min |
November 25, 2020
Country Life UK
The forgotten works of Fabergé
When Geoffrey Munn saw a flash of purple and gold in a crowded cabinet, he instinctively knew he had stumbled upon a lost cache of pieces by the imperial Russian jeweller–but who were the regal-looking women pictured in the enamel frames?
6 min |
November 25, 2020
Country Life UK
Centuries in the making
As Partagás celebrates 175 years, our correspondent reflects on his epiphany and subsequent conversion to the brand
4 min |
November 25, 2020
Country Life UK
The stuff of fairy tales
Gingerbread will forever be associated with that little house in the woods, but it was also a firm favourite with Elizabeth I. Inspired by a collection of extravagant moulds, Rosie Goodwin of the Ryedale Folk Museum explores the origins of a festive favourite
5 min |
November 25, 2020
Country Life UK
Holmes, sweet Holmes
Sherlock Holmes had an eye for architectural detail, an interest derived from his creator, Arthur Conan Doyle. Jeremy Musson looks at how it emerges in the books, with the help of specially commissioned drawings
8 min |
November 25, 2020
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A prince's passion
Michael Prodger is fascinated by a pioneering royal project devoted to the collecting and reproducing of the Renaissance Master’s works
3 min |
November 25, 2020
Country Life UK
When Geography Matters
When is a Cornish pasty not a Cornish pasty?
1 min |
November 04, 2020
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You've been framed
Want to cultivate serious specs appeal? Emma Hughes gathers advice from those in the know
5 min |
November 04, 2020
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The secret's in the soil
The houses of the Garden of England are as impressive and storied as the landscape
4 min |
November 04, 2020
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The good doctor
The banishment of Sir Hans Sloane to a back-room glass case is unjustified and ignorant. This generous, kindly medical pioneer deserves better
4 min |
November 04, 2020
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‘When I swear, people know I mean it'
Michel Roux Jnr, the Michelin-starred member of a French cooking dynasty, talks to Christopher Jackson about the new normal, dressing up, the dangers of drinking and the importance of respect
6 min |
November 04, 2020
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Hickory dickory dock
The soporific tick-tock of seconds passing, the hypnotic swing of the pendulum, the commanding chiming of the hour: every house deserves a longcase clock, concludes Matthew Dennison
7 min |
November 04, 2020
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HALLS OF LEARNING
From private to public ones, the capital is home to some of the finest libraries in the world. London Library member Harry Mount extols the virtues of some of his favourites
5 min |
November 04, 2020
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I like the way you move
The manner in which you enter a room can change everything that happens next. Daniel Pembrey reveals how you could become the next Sean Connery
9 min |
November 04, 2020
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Have I got moos for you
Far from being ‘stupid’ or ‘silly cows’, cattle are ungainsayably clever and emotionally intelligent, with bags of personality, too, contends John Lewis-Stempel
5 min |
November 04, 2020
Country Life UK
First impressions
With this year’s GENTLEMAN’S LIFE supplement in mind, we pick five homes perfect for the young gent in the city
2 min |
November 04, 2020
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When In Doubt, Take A Bath
The market in Somerset’s largest city is heating up. Now is the time to dip a toe in
5 min |
October 28, 2020
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The magic touch
The carving of root vegetables into grotesque faces is only one of many attempts to ward off the advances of evil through the centuries, discovers Ian Morton
5 min |
October 28, 2020
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The art of transgression
Laura Gascoigne finds more feminism than sex or yoga in the British Museum’s interpretation of Tantra
3 min |
October 28, 2020
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On England's pleasant pastures seen
With frost-edged air embued by decaying leaves, bonfires and gunpowder, for John Lewis-Stempel, our landscape of field, hedge and brook is the only place to be in October
4 min |
October 28, 2020
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The North Pennines
THE second largest of the AONBs, at 766 square miles, this landscape of gorges, waterfalls and moorland is awash with natural importance.
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October 28, 2020
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Sign language
The Pope’s Head, The Naked Boy, The Leg & Star: illustrated signs have been swinging tipsily outside Britain’s pubs for centuries, wooing customers, annoying Parliament and occasionally landing on pedestrians, says Felicity Day
5 min |
October 28, 2020
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Light the touch paper
Tiffany Daneff visits a garden that comes alive as others begin to fade, where inspired plantings heighten autumn’s natural brilliance
6 min |
October 28, 2020
Country Life UK
My favourite painting Cressida Cowell: St George and the Dragon by Paolo Uccello
John McEwen comments on St George
2 min |