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England expects
IN a bid to keep a national treasure in UK ownership, a temporary export bar has been placed on a Union Jack that flew from Royal Sovereign, the 100-gun flagship of Vice-Admiral Collingwood that became the first valiant vessel to engage the enemy during the Battle of Trafalgar.
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January 07, 2026
Country Life UK
A year of centenaries, celebrations and commemorations
A CONSTANT in a world of extraordinary change, Elizabeth II was born Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor on April 21, 1926, at No 17, Bruton Street, London.
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January 07, 2026
Country Life UK
Ministers set out ambitious animal-welfare agenda
THE Government's Animal Welfare Strategy, launched just before Christmas, contains ambitious and wide-ranging proposals that aim to put the onus on responsible, informed ownership through a bill that encompasses a mix of tighter legislation and outright bans.
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January 07, 2026
Country Life UK
How to survive January
BRIDGET JONES once declared, with typical chutzpah, that New Year resolutions should begin on January 2.
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January 07, 2026
Country Life UK
Seize the moment
A GROMENES'S New Year's resolution is to help this country relearn the language of priorities. It was the Government that set him off.
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January 07, 2026
Country Life UK
The legacy Agatha Christie and the murder mystery
TO tell the truth, I was considerably upset and worried.
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January 07, 2026
Country Life UK
Fighting cats
THE Earl of Leicester stands beside the fireplace of the Long Library at Holkham, a 1730s interior designed as part of the family wing of this great house by William Kent.
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January 07, 2026
Country Life UK
A peculiar genius
This year is the centenary of one of the most celebrated holiday villages in the British Isles. Kathryn Ferry tells the remarkable story of this Picturesque creation
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January 07, 2026
Country Life UK
Wassail!
LAST year's apple crop pipped all the records: boughs groaned under the weight of ripe fruit and growers declared it the best season for decades.
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January 07, 2026
Country Life UK
Charlotte Mullins comments on Portrait of a Young Man
THIS captivating portrait depicts a young man holding an open book.
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January 07, 2026
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Veterans to restore river
IN the early days of owning Greenway House, Agatha Christie would have appreciated the crystal-clear and unpolluted River Dart that flowed close by.
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January 07, 2026
Country Life UK
Beyond beauty
WELSH artist Gwen John (1876-1939) was little recognised in her lifetime, except in COUNTRY LIFE, where she was described as 'a sort of a modern Vermeer' who had a 'Whistlerian touch about her early paintings' (June 19, 1926).
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January 07, 2026
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A loan that's just too big to fail
THE announcement by French president Emmanuel Macron of the loan of the Bayeux Tapestry to the British Museum for nine months has generated a great deal of press on both sides of the Channel.
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January 07, 2026
Country Life UK
Rural resolutions
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January 07, 2026
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Let's get this party started
Whoever snaps up one of these five homes gets a bonus perk-a party barn built for unforgettable events and non-stop fun and frivolity
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December 24, 2025
Country Life UK
A life in costume
PHYLLIS DALTON was a costume designer extraordinaire, her creations winning Oscarsfor Doctor Zhivago and Kenneth Branagh's Henry V-and appearing in almost 50 other films, including The Man Who Knew Too Much, Lawrence of Arabia, Oliver!, A Private Function and The Princess Bride.
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December 24, 2025
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The cold never bothered her anyway
Wrapped in fur, easel strapped to her waist, Anna Boberg braved swirling snowstorms to paint the shimmering colours of the icy Lofoten islands in Norway
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December 24, 2025
Country Life UK
Country Mouse As clear as mud
THE pale yellow glistening mud that covers the Thil pake allow the gray gread that very nud that is spread like enamel over the valleys.'
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December 24, 2025
Country Life UK
Seeing red
Whether the jewel-like native of Britain's bogs or the North American cousin of the Christmas table, the cranberry is a fruit of fascinating biological and cultural prestige
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December 24, 2025
Country Life UK
The jolly sportsman Fox terrier
WHATEVER may or may not be said as to the mischievous propensities of the foxterrier, there is no denying the fact that of all dogs he is the most sportive,' COUNTRY LIFE noted in 1897.
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December 24, 2025
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The taste of Britain Northumberland: Craster kippers
IF you attended an English public school Ib you attended, n English public school probably induce a shudder, rather than a 'merry cry' akin to Bertie Wooster's in 1946's Joy in the Morning.
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December 24, 2025
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Picking up steam
Chugging and chuffing their way around heritage lines across the country, steam locomotives continue to capture our imagination, says Octavia Pollock
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December 24, 2025
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Sacred grounds - The Convent Garden of Il Redentore, Giudecca, Venice, Italy
The recent exemplary restoration by Paolo Pejrone of the 16th-century monastic gardens is not to be missed,
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December 24, 2025
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Drawing tracks
Although some perceived the advent of the locomotive as a threat to the countryside, by allowing artists a quick and easy way to travel, it broadened their choice of painting horizons, discovers Carla Passino
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December 24, 2025
Country Life UK
Cracking the art of photographing birds' eggs
THE beauty of birds' eggs has been captured by commercial food and drink photographer Stephen Robert Thornton in a new book, Oology.
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December 24, 2025
Country Life UK
Sweet little lies
Gustav Klimt's Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer made headlines when it was sold last month, but behind the dizzying price and the magnificent artwork hides the story of an ingenious ruse to escape Nazi persecution
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December 24, 2025
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It's down to the pub
COUNTRY people are rooted in their local communities.
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December 24, 2025
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My new best friends are unreal
If you are wired for nostalgia, it can take you in unexpected ways.
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December 24, 2025
Country Life UK
A gem of a show in the heart of Paris
In a collaboration between the V&A Museum and the Al Thani Collection, 140 jewels are being displayed together at the Hôtel de la Marine in Paris, France, once the royal furniture repository where Louis XVI exhibited the crown jewels to the public one day a month.
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December 24, 2025
Country Life UK
Nature on track
Endangered bumblebees, sifting spoonbills and trespassing tortoises- Britain's rail network is a rich and unlikely wildlife haven, finds Vicky Liddell
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