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Country Life UK
Back to the musical
Three new big-budget, spectacular musicals are rejuvenating the West End
4 min |
September 22, 2021
Country Life UK
A Cotswold dream
A medieval house, developed in the 18th century and again by Clough Williams-Ellis in the 1930s answers the popular ideal of a Cotswold home. Jeremy Musson reports
8 min |
September 22, 2021
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How To Avoid A Chainsaw Massacre
Why foresters have to be a hardy breed
3 min |
September 15, 2021
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Growing for gold
It is the designer who gets the applause, but behind every successful Chelsea show garden is a nursery that supplies the plants. Val Bourne meets the busy Mark Straver of Hortus Loci
5 min |
September 15, 2021
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‘Through dead men's eyes'
The tradition of ‘eerie’ literature and art, invoking fear, unease and dread, has flourished in the shadows of British landscape culture for centuries, says Robert Macfarlane
5 min |
September 15, 2021
Country Life UK
‘She can always paint more pictures'
The vigorous creativity of Vanessa Bell and her lover Duncan Grant’s work owes much to the countryside surrounding their farmhouse in the Sussex Downs, says Matthew Dennison
8 min |
September 15, 2021
Country Life UK
Natural splendour
Val Bourne finds out the secrets behind the astonishing swathes of naturalised bulbs grown at Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire
6 min |
September 15, 2021
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Once bitten, twice shy
Whether they bite, suck or sting, some insects are a downright pain in the arm, says Simon Lester, as he identifies the most troublesome little nippers
7 min |
September 15, 2021
Country Life UK
Flowers for Christmas
In the garden
4 min |
September 15, 2021
Country Life UK
Chelsea as we have never seen it before
Kathryn Bradley-Hole presents our guide to the highlights of the most eagerly anticipated Chelsea Flower Show in decades
6 min |
September 15, 2021
Country Life UK
Blenheim Palace
Britain’s greatest masterpieces
4 min |
September 15, 2021
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A Baroque banquet
The Archer Pavilion, Wrest Park, Bedfordshire, In the care of English Heritage One of the most spectacular garden buildings of the English Baroque–as well as the architect that designed it– is ripe for reappraisal, says Helen Lawrence-Beaton
8 min |
September 15, 2021
Country Life UK
The Gate of Heaven
Bevis Marks, London EC3 Britain’s oldest operating synagogue has remained in continuous use in the heart of the City since 1701, as Jeremy Musson reveals. Its interior has been specially photographed for COUNTRY LIFE by candlelight
8 min |
September 08, 2021
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Something old, something new
After years of nurturing a great garden, passing on the responsibility to younger custodians is easier if it’s kept in the family, finds Catherine Larner
8 min |
September 08, 2021
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The drama of Arts and Crafts
Two superb small estates in Surrey and Hampshire are as desirable for modern owners as they were in their illustrious beginnings
5 min |
September 08, 2021
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In search of an earthly paradise
Famous for urging us to have nothing in our homes that is not useful or beautiful, William Morris’s masterful command of pattern and Arts-and-Crafts design masked a deeply unhappy marriage, says Michael Montagu
8 min |
September 08, 2021
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The Yellow Room
NANCY LANCASTER and John Fowler were a fractious pairing, ‘the most unhappy unmarried couple in England,’ as Lancaster’s aunt Nancy Astor put it, but their imaginative dynamic brought spectacular results.
4 min |
September 08, 2021
Country Life UK
The colour purple
With gleaming skin and a plump, elongated shape, the versatile aubergine offers subtle, yet luscious succour to countless dishes, says Tom Parker Bowles
4 min |
September 08, 2021
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Overflowing with good ideas
The garden at Balcombe Mill House, East Sussex Island beds brimming with naturalistic plantings of perennials and grasses have brought the once-renowned garden at the Mill House, Balcombe, West Sussex, back from the brink, reveals John Hoyland
6 min |
September 08, 2021
Country Life UK
A strange fish
With a bite like a vampire, the lamprey is a sinister-looking fish with a shady past, says Aeneas Dennison
3 min |
September 08, 2021
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All about Eve
Dismissed as a crank in the late 1930s for her progressive views on farming, Lady Eve Balfour went on to co-found the Soil Association, says Sarah Langford
4 min |
September 08, 2021
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Why We Should All Be Growing Plectranthus
The Victorian favorite is finding justly deserved favour again, reveals John Hoyland
4 min |
September 01, 2021
Country Life UK
Escape to the farm
Never has it been more important for children to learn about food production or responsibility for animals. Tessa Waugh reports on the schools taking a lead in agricultural education
6 min |
September 01, 2021
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The History Boys
AS a Leeds grammar-school boy pre-paring to take a scholarship exam for Oxford, Alan Bennett worked out a clever system of reducing ‘everything I knew to a set of notes with answers to possible questions and odd, eye-catching quotations all written out on a series of forty or fifty correspondence cards, a handful of which I carried in my pocket wherever I went.
4 min |
September 01, 2021
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The girls are running away with the ball
Sally Jones celebrates the schools that have broken with tradition to promote girls playing formerly male-dominated sports
6 min |
September 01, 2021
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Purple reign
It’s September and the grapes hang heavy on the vine, ripe for treading, explains Amy Jeffs
2 min |
September 01, 2021
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Admiration and intimacy
The Palace of Versailles, France From 1661 until his death in 1715, Louis XIV invested huge sums of money transforming Versailles into a palace that commanded international admiration. Philip Mansel considers the response of English visitors to this astonishing creation
8 min |
September 01, 2021
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Straight from the horse's mouth
Equus caballus has served us for millennia on the land, the battlefield and in the sporting arena, so it’s no wonder our passion for our trusty steeds remains unbridled, says John Lewis-Stempel
6 min |
September 01, 2021
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All the gears and no idea
The presenter on the realities of farming and why rock stars should run the countryside
5 min |
September 01, 2021
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Where champions are made
After Britain’s triumphant equestrian Olympics, there is a chance to watch the stars on home turf, says Kate Green
3 min |