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America's 51st state
Glamorous American bars were once a familiar sight in London, catering to US and British citizens alike, but only two of the historic ones remain. On the eve of Thanksgiving, Robert Crossan goes in search of both
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November 01, 2023
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Defying gravity
Norman Foster gave London dizzying skyscrapers, head-turning apartment blocks and a bridge of light, as well as championing compact city living and piloting aeroplanes. Carla Passino meets the man with his head in the clouds
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November 01, 2023
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Anything but flat
The appetite for apartment living is on the up. Here are some of the capital's best new-builds
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November 01, 2023
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Whatever the weather
Sometimes, it's best to forget all about the warm embrace of a winter-sun holiday, argues Emma Love, and cuddle up in the cold, at home and abroad
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November 01, 2023
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10 ways to insulate a period property
Modern technology might offer sustainable, cost-effective heat sources, but the best-value unit of energy is the one you don't lose through your roof, floors, walls and windows. Tim Moulding, a eighth-generation builder, suggests ways to keep an old building warm
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November 01, 2023
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The comforts of the kitchen
The onset of winter has its compensations, not least the chance to indulge in the flavoursome indulgence that is slow cooking, says Tom Parker Bowles
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November 01, 2023
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An ode to winter
The silence, subtle beauty and certainties of a British winter combine to make it a breathtaking season of cold and cosiness, says
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November 01, 2023
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You're a dark horse
The desired steed of great conquerors, as well as a symbol of strength and courage, the black horse-whether mythological, literary or real-has long galloped across our minds, says
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November 01, 2023
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Stranger things
Burning barrels, hare-pie scrambles, bottle kicking and horn dances: no one does eccentric quite like the English. Harry Pearson explores our weird, wonderful and sometimes distinctly dangerous folk festivals
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November 01, 2023
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A local revival
A local initiative has returned a major country house from a building in danger to a well-loved and intensively used property. John Martin Robinson reports
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November 01, 2023
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Far from black and white
BOVINE TB (bTB) should not be a political issue', the NFU has warned, in response to Labour proposals to ban culling licences from 2024.
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November 01, 2023
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Welcome back, old friends
All the favourites are back, from Sondheim's songs to a newly inventive Gilbert and Sullivan, Pygmalion and Private Lives with two mature actors
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October 18, 2023
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Pot shots
I HAVEN’T nosed around behind other people’s garden sheds, but I suspect that, if I did, I would find, as I do behind mine, a jumble of precariously stacked old plastic pots. I try to create some kind of order by stacking similar sizes together, but such is the range of shapes and sizes that disorder soon returns. Most can’t be recycled; nurseries and garden centres don’t want to reuse them for fear of spreading disease and one never needs them in the garden, however enthusiastic one is about propagating plants. I think we’ll be stuck with them until plastic recycling improves.
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October 18, 2023
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Plant theatre
Charles Quest-Ritson joins the legion of garden enthusiasts who make the pilgrimage to the dramatic plant nurseries at Larch Cottage in Cumbria
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October 18, 2023
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Beethoven's homage to Nature
Although Beethoven was German by birth, it was the Austrian countryside that influenced many of his greatest works and provided respite from the torment caused by his deafness. Russell Higham visits the Viennese woodlands that inspired his music
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October 18, 2023
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Rooms with a view
Amsterdam's historic canal houses offer vertical living at its very finest
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October 18, 2023
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Georgian grandeur
The enduring appeal of Georgian architecture in all its guises is highlighted by the recent launch onto the market of three important historic houses
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October 18, 2023
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Give fleece a chance
Wool month is the time to consider sleeping in bedding sourced from a local flock
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October 18, 2023
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Following in the footsteps of John Macnab
The Editor and The Judge set forth to Speyside in a bid to bag a Macnab-a salmon, a stag and a brace of grouse in one day-from the purple heather-clad hills that rise above the fabled river in the Scottish highlands
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October 18, 2023
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Come hell or high water
A miracle of Nature, the salmon braves body changes, hungry seals and forbidding waterfalls on its extraordinary journey to and from its spawning grounds. But now, warns Simon Lester, it may be facing one challenge too many
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October 18, 2023
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'Stubborn little bearers of total joy'
Norfolk terriers may be small and feisty, but their immense courage, intelligence and sheer joy of life have won over everyone from members of the Royal Family to Formula 1 champions
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October 18, 2023
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Having a field day
From following hounds beneath snow-flecked skies to fishing for trout by shimmering water meadows and landing a Macnab, Adrian Dangar has enjoyed a lifetime of adventures as a respected huntsman and sporting correspondent
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October 18, 2023
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The Englishness of English architecture
A major new survey of architecture in Britain and Ireland from 1530 to 1880 will be published this autumn. Its author, Steven Brindle, teases out the qualities of one of its most elusive central themes
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October 18, 2023
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Totally foxed
The new Scottish law on hunting is a cunning catch-22 situation, but not one designed to help the fox
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October 18, 2023
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Farmers need better friends
THERE are very few agricultural constituencies in England today— the growth of towns and suburbs has meant that they dominate the truly rural areas. Once, there were seats all over the country where the farming vote really mattered. In Norfolk, Suffolk and Lincolnshire, the West Country and the Welsh Borders especially, candidates would have to make an effort to woo the country electorate. The House of Commons would always have members seriously interested in farming and able to speak up with authority, but that has changed radically as constituencies are reordered to reflect population changes.
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October 18, 2023
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Farmers see red over green plan
A NEW ‘environmental module’ proposed by the farm-assurance scheme Red Tractor has drawn heavy criticism from farmers after it was announced last week. The scheme, known as the Green Farm Commitment (GFC), will enable ‘farmers to make commitments and track their own progress across five key areas for environmentally focused farming: carbon footprinting; soil management; nutrient management; waste management; and biodiversity’, according to the organisation. Farmers reacted with fury to the proposal, accusing supermarkets of passing the cost of them reaching net zero onto farmers.
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October 18, 2023
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Scents and sensibilities
Oxford Song, which starts this weekend, is an imaginative festival combining sound, vision and smell-in short, a feast for the senses. Henrietta Bredin reports
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October 11, 2023
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We reap what he sowed
Trespassing into an overgrown garden set botanical illustrator Miles Hadfield on a quest for horticultural conservation. Today, many of our most magnificent grounds owe their survival to his efforts, finds Katherine Cole
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October 11, 2023
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Colour supplements
Overgrown trees had blocked the sea view on this steep south-facing slope, where Jane Powers discovers a secret garden brimming with light and fiery autumn tints
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October 11, 2023
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Conference calls among the cattle
The commute and the office has changed forever. Deborah Nicholls-Lee speaks to those turning the countryside into a different type of workplace
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