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Country Life UK
Earth's Eden
Chris Cotonou journeys to New Zealand, where dramatic landscapes conspire to slow time and stir the soul
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April 15, 2026
Country Life UK
Roasted cod with Jersey Royals and peas-and-lettuce pesto cream
Kitchen garden cook Jersey Royals
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April 15, 2026
Country Life UK
Of cabbages and kings
I DON'T usually think about sealing wax when I go aboard a ship, so I'm not sure why I began thinking about kings as I was pricking out my cabbages.
2 min |
April 15, 2026
Country Life UK
Let's raise a glass
Homes with wine cellars offer discerning buyers climate-controlled conditions that let collections age gracefully, so that every gathering becomes a toast-worthy triumph. Cheers!
3 min |
April 15, 2026
Country Life UK
The best things come in threes
The National has a trio of excellent new productions, including a star-studded Les Liaisons Dangereuses, and a new star is born playing a 20-year-old van Gogh
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April 15, 2026
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Braking with tradition
How many seamen does it take to move a Rolls-Royce and Land Rover from a royal yacht? Jeremy Taylor gets behind the wheel of the fleet that lived in a bespoke garage aboard RY Britannia
5 min |
April 15, 2026
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Rocket men
The Rothschilds rose from a gloomy German ghetto to the top of the world in one generation. A new display at Waddesdon Manor charts their extraordinary history
8 min |
April 15, 2026
Country Life UK
Drawn to the page
The Paris drawing fairs delivered an exciting array of artists old and new, but a wide selection of art references of all kinds comes in the guise of the Russell Taylor library, now for sale online
4 min |
April 15, 2026
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Growing gains
I STILL cannot use my thumbs when potting up a rooted cutting or potting on a plant. I use my fingers. They are better at gauging the pressure needed to firm the compost, be it peat-free (lightness of touch is important) or soil-based (a little firmer). It is not something I learned from a book.
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April 15, 2026
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Where dinosaurs dare to tread
Lost until a chance discovery in 2009, this Victorian fernery has not only been restored, but now houses two National Collections. Charles Quest-Ritson visits
5 min |
April 15, 2026
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Meet the brass band
Where do army bugles and world-famous trumpets go when they need some care and attention? Lotte Brundle visits McQueens, Britain's biggest brass-repair firm
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April 15, 2026
Country Life UK
Fit for a Queen
Elizabeth II dazzled in her ballgowns and tiaras, but she is best remembered for the silk scarves, raincoats and sensible shoes she wore when out with her beloved dogs and horses.
4 min |
April 15, 2026
Country Life UK
Interior designers Sarah Vanrenen and Laura Hanbury have created a hallway with a smart, but welcoming feel
WHEN Sarah Vanrenen and Laura Hanbury of Vanrenen Hanbury were asked to redecorate this 9,000sq ft house not far from their studio on the borders of Berkshire and Wiltshire, it soon became apparent that there was much work to be done; the project involved rewiring and replumbing, reconfiguring the ground floor, replacing a tired conservatory with a new kitchen, repositioning doorways and removing unsympathetic 1990s joinery.
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April 15, 2026
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'Oh, mow on then'
The history of the lawnmower is a gloriously British tale of eccentricity, brainwaves and dogged determination, featuring camel-powered contraptions, steam and Diana Dors.
5 min |
April 15, 2026
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Pollution fears intensify near historic William Kent garden
POTENTIALLY PFAS-contaminated streams that run off the high limestone plateau on which the RAF Upper Heyford airbase in Oxfordshire was built run down into the Cherwell valley, in which Rousham, the sole surviving intact William Kent garden in the world, is situated.
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April 15, 2026
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Home is where the heart is
LUCY AND JONATHAN CHENEVIX-TRENCH flank the figurative heart of Madresfield, a square panel of oak laid centrally in the floor of the Staircase Hall.
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April 15, 2026
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Did Greene give a clue to the Third Man?
The Writer and the Traitor Robert Verkaik (Headline, £22)
5 min |
April 15, 2026
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Reach for the Tsars
Mystery surrounded the buyer who paid a record price for Fabergé's spectacular Winter Egg, the only imperial egg made by a woman. Now, its new owner is revealed
3 min |
April 15, 2026
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A yeoman's home
Enlarged by a prosperous yeoman farmer in the 17th century, this remarkable house has a complex history stretching back to the Middle Ages.
7 min |
April 15, 2026
Country Life UK
The legacy Margery Allingham and Campion
ALBERT CAMPION made his debut in 1929's The Crime at Black Dudley, a blond, bespectacled and disconcertingly blank-expressioned member of a house party beset by the occult. Over the next 37 years, he would grow into a kind of Jazz Age Sherlock Holmes, solving crimes and mysteries with the help of his irascible manservant, reformed burglar Lugg.
1 min |
April 15, 2026
Country Life UK
We will remember her
THE year 1926 was modest in its eventfulness. Traffic lights were installed at Piccadilly Circus and a car ferry opened between Portsmouth and the Isle of Wight, Germany and Russia signed a neutrality peace treaty and the Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen flew over the North Pole in an airship.
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April 15, 2026
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Rooting for you
A versatile herb valued as a tonic for the nervous system, valerian's soporific effects were once considered a great asset to public decorum
4 min |
April 15, 2026
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Durham Castle gives up its secrets
ARCHAEOLOGISTS working at Durham Castle, once the seat of the powerful Prince Bishops of Durham, have discovered a medieval wall painting in the Senate Suite that is thought to date from the late 13th to the early 14th centuries.
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April 15, 2026
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Funding strain to blame for Laskett Gardens sale
THE LASKETT GARDENS, created by historian, former museum director and broadcaster Sir Roy Strong and his late wife, Julia Trevelyan Oman, in the 1970s, are being sold.
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April 15, 2026
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A war of words
‘It is giving the world a sharp lesson in the fragility of civilisation and the proximity of savagery’
2 min |
April 15, 2026
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An eye to the future at Daylesford
The magnificent Heritage Barn at Daylesford in the Cotswolds was the setting for an event at which five specialists with a deep understanding of country properties shared their expertise
1 min |
April 15, 2026
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A lapwing and a prayer
St Valentine's month may be bitterly cold, but the capricious charms of Vanellus vanellus never fail to warm the heart, says John Lewis-Stempel
4 min |
February 25, 2026
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Put your trust in me
I found out last week that you don't always need to give something up for Lent: you can also take something on.
1 min |
February 25, 2026
Country Life UK
Vote for the countryside
COUNTRY people in much of England will now have a chance to vote in May.
2 min |
February 25, 2026
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In her write mind
Sibyls, the book born of Ruth Fainlight's poems and Leonard Baskin's prints, became a memento of friendship, beauty and sorrow for its author
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