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Country Life UK
Packing a redemptive Punch
A play about parents meeting the man who killed their son is deeply affecting and an Irish import deserves to be described as a modern classic, but the new direction of the National Theatre gets off to a shaky start
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October 15, 2025
Country Life UK
A labour of love
When antique dealer Will Green set out to create a kitchen that is both sympathetic to his historic home and suited to his young family, he used clay dug out of the ground below, distemper made from rabbit glue and 19th-century furniture to bring the space to life
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October 15, 2025
Country Life UK
Beauty within budget
A cottage overlooking the sea in Cornwall and a handsome Georgian townhouse in Lincolnshire are only two of the prime properties currently on the market for less than $1 million
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October 15, 2025
Country Life UK
Texts in the city
Eccentric, awe-inspiring and a home-from-home for literary giants, the London Library is an institution like no other and anyone can join it. As it celebrates 180 years in St James's Square, Emma Hughes steps inside
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October 15, 2025
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The last big thing
The record-breaking sale of a superb collection, amassed by Pauline Karpidas, saw a cavalcade of works by some of the greatest artists of the past century, from René Magritte to Grayson Perry
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October 15, 2025
Country Life UK
Gently does it
A spell in a crumbling country house with snow on the billiard table and swallows in the four-poster beds gave Annie Tempest the inspiration for her Tottering cartoon. More than three decades after the first strip, she reveals to Ben Lerwill how she pulls it off every week
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October 15, 2025
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A brush with power
Anne Boleyn dropped suggestive hints and Elizabeth I projected undying monarchy through her portraits: Tudor women knew how to use art to send a message, Philippa Gregory tells Carla Passino
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October 15, 2025
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Upside-down brown-butter pear cake with maple and rosemary
Kitchen garden cook Pears
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October 15, 2025
Country Life UK
The X factor
When he noticed an uncanny resemblance between John Singer Sargent's painting of Virginie Gautreau and a Cecil Beaton portrait of Leslie Caron, Patrick Monahan called on the Hollywood Golden Age actress to investigate
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October 15, 2025
Country Life UK
Sow the seeds of summer now
Ursula Cholmeley recommends sowing sweet peas now for stronger plants that will better withstand the weather
4 min |
October 15, 2025
Country Life UK
A world without care
Schloss Sanssouci, Brandenburg, Germany A property in the care of the Prussian Palaces and Gardens Foundation Berlin-Brandenburg
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October 15, 2025
Country Life UK
Holm is where the heart is
From ancient Greece to Norfolk, the story of one of England's loveliest naturalised trees brims with antiquarian intrigue and sylvan charm, discovers Aeneas Dennison
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October 15, 2025
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The legacy Joseph Paxton and Crystal Palace
The unlikely friendship between the farmer's boy and the Duke came about not only because of practical skill.
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October 15, 2025
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The king of the waltz
The dance is the 'vertical expression of horizontal desire' and Johann Strauss II, whose bicentenary it is this year, was the composer most responsible for its explosion in popularity.
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October 15, 2025
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Forestry sector urged to innovate amid myriad threats
BRITAIN'S forestry owners and managers, although increasingly aware of climate and ecological risks, could do more to counter the devastating impacts of a changing world.
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October 15, 2025
Country Life UK
On the hedge
Ivy offers a summer egg-laying site to the holly blue butterfly
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October 15, 2025
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Sir David Beckham scores a first with COUNTRY LIFE
SIR DAVID BECKHAM makes history next week as the first person other than a member of the Royal Family to guest edit COUNTRY LIFE (on sale October 22).
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October 15, 2025
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Cedric Morris's home secures restoration funding
HE first phase of a project to restore Benton End House in Suffolk, once the home of celebrated artist and gardener Sir Cedric Morris and his lifelong partner, artist Arthur Lett-Haines, has received the green light following a $294,221 grant from the National Lottery Heritage Fund.
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October 15, 2025
Country Life UK
Baroque composer's unknown works appear
COMPOSER Henry Purcell, known to have COMPO created in excess of 700 pieces of music during his short lifetime-he died in 1695 aged 36-has had two major new sources added to his oeuvre following discoveries by researchers from Royal Holloway, University of London, via the project 'Music, Heritage, Place'.
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October 15, 2025
Country Life UK
A fruitful Apple Day launch
APPLE DAY on October 21 will bring a raft of events to celebrate this most popular of fruits, paying homage to the huge number of varieties grown in Britain.
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October 15, 2025
Country Life UK
A cut above
The living is easy at two impeccably restored historic country estates, one visited by Henry James and Virginia Woolf, the other the birthplace of a flying ace downed by the Red Baron
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October 15, 2025
Country Life UK
Spill the beans
No longer considered bland, bleak sustenance, glorious beans, whether bottled, tinned or dried, have skipped into the hearts and pantries of the nation, enthuses
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October 15, 2025
Country Life UK
Hare today, gone tomorrow
NOR some seven decades, FJim Meads, who captured images of more than 500 packs of hounds, was known as 'the running photographer'.
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October 15, 2025
Country Life UK
White Canoe by Peter Doig
Charlotte Mullins comments on White Canoe
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October 15, 2025
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Put the F into Defra
\"The UK is governed by ministers for whom the countryside is foreign place'
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October 15, 2025
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Abattoir shortage poses growing welfare risks
LIVESTOCK are still frequently having to This perennial issue, a proverbial thorn in the side of meat producers, has rumbled on for years and has now been further substantiated by a report from the Sustainable Food Trust, Soil Association and Rare Breeds Survival Trust.
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October 15, 2025
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Dogged work uncovers Rembrandt secret
ALTHOUGH history doesn't record how passionate Rembrandt van Rijn was about dogs, he clearly liked them enough to feature them in several of his paintings, such as his Self-portrait in Oriental Attire with Poodle (1631-33).
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October 08, 2025
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The royal treatment
Edward VII swept away the cobwebs of mid-Victorian style, Queen Mary had passion for all things small and the Queen Mother bought rather avant-garde art. In a forthcoming talk, Tim Knox, director of the Royal Collection, charts a century of regal taste
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October 08, 2025
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The garden for all seasons
The private Worcestershire garden of John Massey
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October 08, 2025
Country Life UK
When in Rome
For anyone considering tweaking pasta alla carbonara-a work of art as fine as the Trevi Fountain-the answer is always: non c'è modo! Or is it, asks Tom Parker Bowles
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