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Humble, grumble, toil and scumble
From George Stubbs's golden vision of the labourer's place in society to Ford Madox Brown's heroically monumental celebration of manual labour, artists gave individual interpretations of work
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January 28, 2026
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Charlotte Mullins comments on Contending Group After Nature
SIR EDWIN LANDSEER came from a family of artists and was a child prodigy, winning the Society of Arts’ Silver Palette in 1813 for his animal studies, at the age of 11.
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January 28, 2026
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Kitchen garden cook Kale
Curly kale and potato terrine with buttery lemon sauce, pickled walnuts and roasted hazelnuts
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January 28, 2026
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Farmers move to tackle abattoir crisis
FARMERS are fighting back against the small abattoir crisis by building their own facilities, delegates at the Oxford Real Farming Conference heard earlier this month.
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January 28, 2026
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The legacy Ian Fleming and James Bond
THERE is only one recipe for a bestseller... you have to get the reader to turn over the page,’ Ian Fleming once told his editor William Plomer.
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January 28, 2026
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How much do you know about Greenland?
WELL now. That was, as they say, a lot. Storm Goretti, Venezuela, Valentino, Fiona from The Traitors—not for years have our heads rolled so much within a single calendar month. One item still appears to have trumped the others, however.
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January 28, 2026
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Glazed expressions
Why glass can offer the secret to creating multifunctional spaces
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January 14, 2026
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Charlotte Mullins comments on Crucifixion Mural
THE Hungarian-Jewish artist George Mayer-Marton spent the interwar years as part of the progressive art group Vienna Hagenbund, before fleeing to Britain in 1938 after the Anschluss, the German annexation of Austria.
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January 14, 2026
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Artificial sweeteners
AI is now reaching into every corner of our lives. We can -and must-very carefully choose how we engage with it
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January 14, 2026
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Peak performance
Tartiflette is one of the most gloriously indulgent après-ski centrepieces, but you don't need to have spent the day bombing down black runs to enjoy it
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January 14, 2026
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Setting the cat among the pigeons
LAST summer was one of the best I can remember for all those North American perennials that fill our herbaceous borders with colour.
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January 14, 2026
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Material success as tweed turns 200
TWEED manufacturer Lovat Mill, renowned for its vibrant colour-mixed yarns, has launched a new collection to celebrate 200 years since the warm woven woollen fabric that is de rigueur for many countryside activities was given its name by accident.
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January 14, 2026
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Tales from an African farm
WEDGED in the front of the dugout, I could not swing my upper body round quickly enough to shoot.
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January 14, 2026
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The designer's room.
The design of Alice Palmer's kitchen was influenced by her foreign travels
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January 14, 2026
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Faraway, so close
Ties between Britain and Hawai'i ran deep, so much that the Union Jack was included in the Pacific country's new flag and its coat of arms was designed in London, as a British Museum exhibition highlights
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January 14, 2026
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A genius of the first class
To mark the tercentenary of Sir John Vanbrugh's death, Charles Saumarez Smith considers the changing reactions to one of his greatest creations, Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire
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January 14, 2026
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Peace in the house
SIR JAMES AND LADY GRAHAM stand beside a chalk portrait by French Society artist Théobald Chartran of Sister Charlotte Harriet Graham (1839–1927).
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January 14, 2026
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Herd mentality
My parents were, on the face of it, strict about our televisual upbringing as children.
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January 14, 2026
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Going, going... gone?
As an American bioscience company makes headlines with its plans to 'de-extinct' the dodo, Emma Hughes tries to separate fact from fiction in the tale of history's most mythologised bird
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January 14, 2026
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Flowers of the desert
The gardens of Riad Nouria, Marrakech, Morocco The home of Lexi and Helena Oswald
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January 14, 2026
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Small victories
This Victorian contribution to our fauna might be diminutive, but what the little owl lacks in stature, it makes up for in fierce character and mythical cachet
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January 14, 2026
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Root and branch reform is needed
ALTHOUGH Athena doesn't usually read Government-commissioned reports for pleasure, she's happy to make an exception for the review of Arts Council England (ACE) published last month.
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January 14, 2026
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Defra secretary courts farmers with long-term vision
Ever resilient, farmers nonetheless need help to be environmentally friendly and economically sustainable, Defra has acknowledged
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January 14, 2026
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The generation game
The age of noblesse oblige may have passed, but the aristocracy continues to play an important role in shaping and preserving life in the countryside
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January 14, 2026
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A New York state of mind
The Big Apple's annual Winter Show brings together handsome American furniture with Gustavian pieces, English folk art and an extraordinary samurai helmet, as a Rembrandt self-portrait stars across the ocean at BRAFA in Brussels
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January 14, 2026
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Green with envy
These homes share one defining feature: exceptional energy efficiency. From solar panels to triple glazing and heat pumps, green thinking delivers lower running costs, reduced carbon footprints and effortless modern comfort
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January 14, 2026
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We've got beef
Celebrity-endorsed and ‘British to the backbone', protein-rich Bovril was a 19th-century superfood once considered as infallible as the Pope
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January 14, 2026
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Step change
The grand, sweeping staircases of old country houses are loaded with centuries of architectural, romantic and ghostly allure
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January 14, 2026
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Easel come, easel go
No chance to travel? No problem: from Italy with Pompeo Batoni to the US with Edward Hopper, you can tour the world with artists instead
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January 14, 2026
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Breaking the doom loop
FARMERS are famously pessimistic people, but a Farmers Weekly survey reveals that the familiar litany of fears—weather, market volatility, disease and zealous bureaucracy—have been superseded by nervously waiting to see what the Government will impose on them next.
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