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Country Life UK
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
Country Life UK
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
Country Life UK
The designer's room.
The design of Alice Palmer's kitchen was influenced by her foreign travels
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January 14, 2026
Country Life UK
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
Country Life UK
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
Country Life UK
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
Country Life UK
Herd mentality
My parents were, on the face of it, strict about our televisual upbringing as children.
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January 14, 2026
Country Life UK
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
Country Life UK
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
Country Life UK
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
Country Life UK
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
Country Life UK
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
Country Life UK
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
Country Life UK
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
Country Life UK
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
Country Life UK
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
Country Life UK
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
Country Life UK
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
Country Life UK
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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January 14, 2026
Country Life UK
The legacy H. M. Bateman and the 'Man who...' cartoons
IN 1908, at the age of 21, Henry Mayo Bateman suffered a nervous breakdown and, in his own words, 'went mad on paper', sketching a pair of wrestlers 'without bothering a scrap about the correctness of how it was done'.
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January 14, 2026
Country Life UK
Oxfordshire: Frank Cooper's Oxford Marmalade
UNCLE MATTHEW, the volcanic patriarch in Nancy Mitford's chronicles of the Radlett family, is a man of rigid tastes: he has, for instance, only read one book in his life, Jack London's White Fang, which he pronounces 'so frightfully good I've never bothered to read another'.
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January 14, 2026
Country Life UK
Rural voices must be heard
THERE is a cack-handed operation under way designed to reorganise local government and, as a result, many local elections may be postponed.
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January 14, 2026
Country Life UK
Grow something new this year
I KNOW it's still cold and the ground may be hard as a hammer, but the days are getting longer and, when the clouds part, there's just a sense that spring might not be many weeks away.
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January 07, 2026
Country Life UK
Secrets of the fields
I RECENTLY got chatting to a Suffolk gamekeeper who spent his working years on some of the last great wild-partridge manors. Shooting has evolved greatly in only a few decades. There are gamekeepers, now in their sixties, who remember being given a bicycle when they started. They would pedal around their beat checking for grey-partridge nests before cycling on to check their trap lines for stoats and weasels. Some of those keepers now have night-vision scopes for shooting foxes and drones for counting deer.
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January 07, 2026
Country Life UK
Tate-à-tête
The National Gallery's announcement of a new wing and more modern art-enabled by an unprecedented $375 million fund-promises to reignite a historic rivalry with Tate.
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January 07, 2026
Country Life UK
Shining a light on the past
Safely stored in a dark vault in London, the dried specimens of Carl Linnaeus's 18th-century herbarium—the basis for the worldwide system of plant naming still in use today—have been revealed in their true colours.
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January 07, 2026
Country Life UK
All hands on decor
Ushering in the New Year are the Decorative Fair, brimming with good-quality antiques, and the London Art Fair, with its tradition of tipping artists in the early stages of their career
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January 07, 2026
Country Life UK
London Life - Your indispensable guide to the capital
Water, water, everywhere
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January 07, 2026
Country Life UK
Winter's tales
The 1962 freeze, spies, murder and golf-here are four novels to absorb as we wait for the days to lengthen
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January 07, 2026
Country Life UK
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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