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COUNTRY LIFE Guide to weddings
Welcome to our take on the latest news on all things nuptial
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March 11, 2020
Country Life UK
A Rococo palace in the wilds
Blair Castle, Perthshire The seat of the Dukes of Atholl Reinvented several times, this ducal seat reveals to Mary Miers a stirring history of feudal power, sophisticated patronage, rebellion and romance
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March 11, 2020
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Older and wiser
The dos and don’ts of second (and subsequent) weddings, according to Arabella Youens
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March 11, 2020
Country Life UK
The Country Life Top 100
Britain is blessed with some of the world’s greatest architects, interior designers, garden designers and specialist craftspeople. For the fourth year running, COUNTRY LIFE selects those with a demonstrable track record in creating the perfect country home
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March 04, 2020
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Listen To The Language Of Belonging
The sounds made by the birds around us are intricate, responsive and humorous. Yet, somehow, we have forgotten how to hear them, says David George Haskell, as he urges us to go outside and pay attention
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March 04, 2020
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Designs For Health And Beauty
The coming of mass tourism to the seaside produced an era of iconic Modern architecture and design, as Clive Aslet discovers
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March 04, 2020
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Where the wild things are
With a primeval bellow that echoes around the medieval castle walls, the rare wild cattle of Chillingham are a scientific wonder, discovers Vicky Liddell
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March 04, 2020
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Stoppard returns to his roots
The octogenerian’s last play is more starkly emotional than usual and the ethics of spying are debated in a topical new work
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March 04, 2020
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Shiver my timbers
Part art and part history, these timber-frame houses are some of England’s finest
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March 04, 2020
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Set fair for 2020
The year’s trade had an excellent start, with high prices achieved for a cheese-toasting dish, a stone Apollo, an Art Deco rug and slabs of the Berlin Wall
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March 04, 2020
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Make mine a labradoodle
In the past 30 years, this well-mannered crossbreed has stolen our hearts, yet the man responsible has likened it to Frankenstein’s monster. Kate MacDougall finds out more
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March 04, 2020
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A growing success
The Plant Specialist, Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire A good garden starts with great plants. Juliet Roberts visits one of the finest suppliers
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March 04, 2020
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A flash in the pan
One of Britain’s outstanding Baroque houses vanished in 1747, having been sold within three years of its patron’s death. William Aslet looks at the tantalising fragments that survive and what they tell us about this prodigy building
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March 04, 2020
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Punching Above Their Weight
Small independent schools can still give larger rivals a run for their money in terms of academic results, facilities and individuality. Madeleine Silver finds out how they manage to hold their own
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February 26, 2020
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Time to reflect
Find some perspective next to the peaceful waters of these three properties
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February 26, 2020
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Purple reign
Purple-sprouting broccoli, the surprisingly robust dandy of the vegetable patch, is best enjoyed with an anchovy sauce and a dusting of feta, says Tom Parker Bowles
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February 26, 2020
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Pride rocks
At last, Joseph Paxton’s monument is being given the restoration it deserves, reveals Tiffany Daneff
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February 26, 2020
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Scalloped splashes of gold
Lauded by Wordsworth for their ‘glittering countenance’, the appearance of the first celandines and the swallow’s return to our shores are c favourite, and much anticipated, harbingers of spring
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February 26, 2020
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Albion the brave
Two works illustrate the ambivalence–loyalty and pride mixed with disgust and anger–that playwrights, from Shakespeare to Alan Bennett, often display towards England
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February 26, 2020
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Fantastic Mr Fox
On a dreary February day, John Lewis-Stempel comes face-to-face with a brace of Vulpes vulpes crucigera among the emerging snowdrops in the dingle below his Herefordshire farmhouse
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February 26, 2020
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Pomp and propaganda
Jeremy Musson explores the glorious detail unveiled in a new exhibition devoted to the late Stuart Age
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February 26, 2020
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A palace worthy of a bishop
Encircled by water in the shadow of its cathedral, the Bishop’s Palace at Wells is a captivating survival. John Goodall looks at the history of this outstanding building 800 years after its construction
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February 26, 2020
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A leap of faith
Ladies, gather your red petticoats and Poundland rings–the day on which you’re ‘allowed’ to propose marriage is on the horizon, says Victoria Marston
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February 26, 2020
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The Future Of The Kitchen Garden
Steven Desmond applauds a ground-breaking restoration that balances productivity with beauty
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February 19, 2020
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Gardens For All Seasons
Winter Gardens have had a difficult late 20th century. What lies ahead for these extraordinary architectural creations, asks Marcus Binney, and might they be about to enjoy a revival?
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February 19, 2020
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My Favourite Painting Viktor Wynd
A Love Spell by Austin Osman Spare
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February 12, 2020
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Through An Italian Looking Glass
Restituted paintings, particularly a stormy scene from the life of St Clare, light up Christie’s, as Dürer poses a riddle it is natural, I suppose, to
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February 05, 2020
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Tied up in knots
Homo rusticus spends ‘Veganuary’ on the urban media trail
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February 19, 2020
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‘Where gentle Thames his winding water leads'
Huon Mallalieu reflects on the influence of the Thames on the work of Turner and other artists and writers of his time
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February 19, 2020
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Trumpet majors
WAS there ever such an obliging and ubiquitous plant as the daffodil?
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