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Country Life UK
Plum advice
Charles Quest-Ritson has grown more than 20 types of plum, gage, mirabelle and damson over the years. Here, he recommends some of the finest
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September 24, 2025
Country Life UK
Country Mouse
Welcome to autumn
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September 24, 2025
Country Life UK
A break from reality
Bryher in the Isles of Scilly is a place to wander in solitude with wildlife and the wide expanse of the Atlantic as your only companions
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September 24, 2025
Country Life UK
Friends at art
THE creative friendship of the Victorian artist-illustrators Kate Greenaway and Helen Allingham is the subject of a new exhibition opening next week.
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September 24, 2025
Country Life UK
Pick up a penguin
THE publishing company Penguin, which is celebrating its 90th anniversary, has produced a new book—about its mascot bird.
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September 24, 2025
Country Life UK
Time is running out on TB target
SEVEN years is a very long time in politics. In 2018, Michael Gove was Defra Secretary and he commissioned a review of Britain's bovine TB (bTB) strategy.
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September 24, 2025
Country Life UK
It's good to talk
IN vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you,' declared Mr Darcy to Elizabeth Bennet in Pride and Prejudice. Scroll along two centuries and this sentiment might have been distilled to a row of love hearts in a text message.
2 min |
September 24, 2025
Country Life UK
Cast in a royal mould
So vast is the array of sculpture in the Royal Collection that it took Jonathan Marsden, former director of the Royal Collection and Surveyor of the Queen's Works of Art from 2010-17, a quarter of a century to catalogue it all.
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September 24, 2025
Country Life UK
The gall of it!
Galls, which can range from the delicately beautiful to hideously unattractive bulbous growths, are among Nature's most intriguing phenomena, discovers Deborah Nicholls-Lee
6 min |
August 27, 2025
Country Life UK
What lies beneath
August has a reputation among followers of the natural world for being something of a non-event, but, with a sickle in his hand, John Lewis-Stempel is granted a glimpse of a magical underworld in a field of ripe wheat
4 min |
August 27, 2025
Country Life UK
Salmon beats feel the heat
GOOD things may come down the line for salmon fishing—some of the best tends to be at the 'back end' of the season, when the leaves turn.
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August 27, 2025
Country Life UK
School's out
A NUMBER of private schools close every year—often small or specialist establishments— yet this year 50-plus more ‘mainstream’ facilities, above the norm, had done so by the end of July.
1 min |
August 27, 2025
Country Life UK
Looks aren't everything
COUNTRY LIFE'S fishing correspondent takes a closer look at the sturgeon, which has been highly prized by gastronomes since Roman times
3 min |
August 27, 2025
Country Life UK
Border terrors
We may have invented the flower border, but planting them remains one of the trickiest things to get right. Charles Quest-Ritson looks at the secrets behind the very best
6 min |
August 27, 2025
Country Life UK
Heroes on a polar adventure
A VOYAGE to the North Pole in 1985 by Neil Armstrong and Sir Edmund Hillary, heroes of the Moon landing and the conquering of Mount Everest respectively, is surely one of the best-kept secrets of all time—the astronaut was famously publicity shy.
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August 27, 2025
Country Life UK
Canterbury tales
THE brothers of Canterbury did not expect their murdered Archbishop [Thomas Becket] to become a saint,' writes Fergus Butler-Gallie in his new book, Twelve Churches, or they would have kept relics, which were 'big business.'
1 min |
August 27, 2025
Country Life UK
To the manner born
How should noodles be eaten? Who ought to stand for whom? Far from being preserved in aspic, etiquette must evolve to suit modern life, argues William Hanson
4 min |
August 27, 2025
Country Life UK
Grace and space in Cheshire
It is one of the wealthiest counties in England, with no signs of an exodus of money, say agents. Here are three exceptional country houses for sale in a fashionable area
5 min |
August 27, 2025
Country Life UK
All hail Hal
FOR more than half a century, Hal Moggridge has enriched, enhanced and entertained the world of landscape architecture and garden design. His huge contribution will be given deserved recognition in a special symposium on September 11.
3 min |
August 27, 2025
Country Life UK
Me, myself and I
Mankind may be tribal and sociable by nature, yet the ‘bliss of solitude’—a state previously reserved for hermits— is the key to achieving inner peace
5 min |
August 27, 2025
Country Life UK
Forget me not
When COUNTRY LIFE’s Henry Avray Tipping spotted a 17th-century four poster languishing in a Herefordshire attic in 1911, he set off a chain of events that saw the bed leave its ancestral home and land at The Met in New York
7 min |
August 27, 2025
Country Life UK
A city of spires and towers
Glamis Castle, Angus, part 2 The seat of the Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne; In the second of two articles, John Goodall looks at the eventful later history of this most celebrated of Scottish castles and its association with Elizabeth, the late Queen Mother
8 min |
August 27, 2025
Country Life UK
Sir Francis Beaufort and the Beaufort Scale
SEAFARERS, aviators and chronic insomniacs are familiar with the Beaufort Scale, the empirical measure of wind force so soothingly delivered on the Shipping Forecast.
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August 27, 2025
Country Life UK
Keep your eye on the ball
Founded in the 18th century to launch the daughters of the aristocracy into Society, Queen Charlotte's Ball has been revived and modernised for a new generation. Eleanor Doughty finds out what's changed—and what hasn't
5 min |
August 27, 2025
Country Life UK
Lads Club likely to be saved
SALFORD LADS CLUB, which was destined to become Greater Manchester's equivalent of Abbey Road, London NW8, after The Smiths posed outside its terracotta portal for the sleeve of their LP The Queen Is Dead in 1986, has been granted $437,961 by Historic England for essential masonry repairs.
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August 27, 2025
Country Life UK
Water, water nowhere
THE years 2023 and 2024 were the warmest recorded and the trend shows no sign of abating.
2 min |
August 27, 2025
Country Life UK
Oh, honey honey
With oodles of vitamin C and potassium, honeyberries are being hailed as the new Scottish superfood, but can they find a place in our kitchens, asks Sarah Todd
4 min |
August 20,2025
Country Life UK
The butterfly of mystery emerges
THE results of the annual citizen survey, the Big Butterfly Count, will be announced on September 9, but healthy figures are anticipated thanks to a warm spring that provided plenty for caterpillars to eat, followed by the sunny conditions butterflies prefer in which to fly and mate.
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August 20,2025
Country Life UK
The piece I wouldn't part with
Leo Webster may be a picture specialist at Bonhams, but he would choose the kilt he inherited from his paternal grandfather over any work of art, he tells Carla Passino
8 min |
August 20,2025
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A Herculean effort
Earlier in the summer, antiquity sales highlighted the many depictions of the classical world’s most popular hero, including a version with Byronic hair, as well as the extraordinary sculpting and casting progress made by ancient Greece
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