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Country Life UK
Shake your pompom
Some can rock a bobble hat, others will always resemble Where's Wally, but still this knitted creation belongs on every hat rack, says Harry Pearson
4 min |
December 25, 2024
Country Life UK
Where time stands still
Memorials are our nation’s collective memory, built to endure and ensure that achievements, individuals and disasters are never forgotten. Susan Owens takes an emotive tour around the British Isles in 50 monuments
10+ min |
December 25, 2024
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'Eating is an agricultural act'
Farmers need to convince consumers that the choices they make are integral to preserving the British environment
3 min |
December 25, 2024
Country Life UK
Welcome home
Despite the trundling tractor and buzzing shears, our ancestors would still recognise the rhythm, ritual and practices of the traditional hill farm, argues John Lewis-Stempel
5 min |
December 25, 2024
Country Life UK
When the saints march in The Cathedral and Abbey Church of St Albans, Hertfordshire, part II
In the second of two articles, John Goodall examines some of the recent changes made to highlight the saints associated with this ancient church
7 min |
December 25, 2024
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All gone to pot
Jars, whether elegant in their glazed simplicity or exquisitely painted, starred in London's Asian Art sales, including an exceptionally rare pair that belonged to China's answer to Henry VIII
3 min |
December 04, 2024
Country Life UK
Food for thought
A SURE sign of winter in our household are evenings in front of the television.
2 min |
December 04, 2024
Country Life UK
Beyond the beach
Jewels of the natural world entrance the eyes of Steven King, as Jamaica's music moves his feet and heart together
5 min |
December 04, 2024
Country Life UK
Savour the moment
I HAVE a small table and some chairs a bleary-eyed stumble from the kitchen door that provide me with the perfect spot to enjoy an early, reviving coffee.
3 min |
December 04, 2024
Country Life UK
Size matters
Architectural Plants in West Sussex is no ordinary nursery. Stupendous specimens of some of the world's most dramatic plants are on display
5 min |
December 04, 2024
Country Life UK
Paint the town red
Catriona Gray meets the young stars lighting up the London art scene, from auctioneers to artists and curators to historians
7 min |
December 04, 2024
Country Life UK
The generation game
For a young, growing family, moving in with, or adjacent to, the grandparents could be just the thing
3 min |
December 04, 2024
Country Life UK
Last orders
As the country-house market winds down for Christmas, two historic properties—one of which was home to the singer Kate Bush-may catch the eye of London buyers looking to move to the country next year
5 min |
December 04, 2024
Country Life UK
Eyes wide shut
Sleep takes many shapes in art, whether sensual or drunken, deathly or full of nightmares, but it is rarely peaceful. Even slumbering babies can convey anxiety
6 min |
December 04, 2024
Country Life UK
Piste de résistance
Scotland's last ski-maker blends high-tech materials with Caledonian timber to create 'truly Scottish', one-off pieces of art that can cope with any type of terrain
3 min |
December 04, 2024
Country Life UK
A touch of frost
As the year draws to a close, look out for the winds blowing us into 2025
1 min |
December 04, 2024
Country Life UK
Bowler me over
Much to the surprise of those who associate the bowler with post-war City types, the hat's origins are entirely rural, discovers Matthew Dennison
6 min |
December 04, 2024
Country Life UK
The legacy Henry Cole and the Christmas card
SIR HENRY COLE (1808–82) was an innovative and influential civil servant.
1 min |
December 04, 2024
Country Life UK
The rocky-pool horror show
An extreme and changeable environment, the seashore is home to horribly fascinating creatures with gruesome habits, so why is it our idea of a blissful holiday spot, asks John Lewis-Stempel
4 min |
December 04, 2024
Country Life UK
Putting in a Good Word
The home of the Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers Established in 1403, the Stationers' Company was long responsible for regulating the printing industry. Lucy Denton looks at the history of this remarkable institution and its livery hall
8 min |
December 04, 2024
Country Life UK
What to look for in winter
This is a season that few could genuinely love, yet as the leaves and flowers abandon us, the structure of the countryside is starkly revealed. John Wright takes the time to revel in form over flamboyance
6 min |
December 04, 2024
Country Life UK
The world turned upside down
THE day after my grandfather’s funeral, my grandmother sold the herd of cows.
4 min |
December 04, 2024
Country Life UK
Shades of grey
THE first grey-seal pup of winter has been born at Orford Ness in Suffolk, marking the fourth year of successful breeding at the site; the species first arrived there, post pandemic, in 2021, and now numbers some 400 adults.
1 min |
December 04, 2024
Country Life UK
For idyllic lunches
A HIGHLANDS picnic cottage frequented by Queen Victoria when staying at Balmoral has been saved from Scotland’s Buildings at Risk Register.
1 min |
December 04, 2024
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A Christmas less ordinary
AT the risk of ‘indecency and tumultuous conduct’—the reasons given in 1813 for shutting down the Christmas market outside Canterbury Cathedral—the precincts of the Kent landmark abound with produce, merriment and song once more this year, for the first time in more than two centuries.
1 min |
December 04, 2024
Country Life UK
Save our family farms
IT Tremains to be seen whether the Government will listen to the more than 20,000 farming people who thronged Whitehall in central London on November 19 to protest against changes to inheritance tax that could destroy countless family farms, but the impact of the good-hearted, sombre crowds was immediate and positive.
1 min |
November 27, 2024
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A very good dog
THE Spanish Pointer (1766–68) by Stubbs, a landmark painting in that it is the artist’s first depiction of a dog, has only been exhibited once in the 250 years since it was painted.
1 min |
November 27, 2024
Country Life UK
The great astral sneeze
Aurora Borealis, linked to celestial reindeer, firefoxes and assassinations, is one of Nature's most mesmerising, if fickle displays and has made headlines this year. Harry Pearson finds out why
3 min |
November 27, 2024
Country Life UK
'What a good boy am I'
We think of them as the stuff of childhood, but nursery rhymes such as Little Jack Horner tell tales of decidedly adult carryings-on, discovers Ian Morton
3 min |
November 27, 2024
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Forever a chorister
The music-and way of living-of the cabaret performer Kit Hesketh-Harvey was rooted in his upbringing as a cathedral chorister, as his sister, Sarah Sands, discovered after his death
4 min |