Entertainment
Country Life UK
Down The Dell The Brooklet Softly Flows
Three hidden treasures– a house amid Hampshire water meadows, a Victorian schoolhouse in Cheshire and a Thames-side Georgian cottage–come to the market
4 min |
November 20, 2019
Country Life UK
A Penny-Farthing For Your Thoughts
The dinosaur of the bicycle world is back in the spotlight with the help of the Penny Farthing Club and its intrepid members, finds Madeleine Silver
4 min |
November 20, 2019
Country Life UK
An Architectural Self-Portrait
Following a boldly conceived restoration, the interest and quality of Sir John Soane’s Ealing villa shines out again.
8 min |
November 20, 2019
Country Life UK
A Bat And Ball Game
A life-long cricket fanatic who finds the game a cruel mistress, James Fisher heads to the MCC Academy at Lord’s to brush up on his skills
6 min |
November 20, 2019
Country Life UK
‘We Urgently Need A Fresh, Positive And Practical Vision For The Countryside'
In his birthday message, The Prince of Wales applauds efforts to combat climate change and acknowledges the urgent need to explain the value of the food our farmers produce
9 min |
November 13, 2019
Country Life UK
Slim Pickings
All hail the queen! The new El Rey del Mundo La Reina, which harks back to the days of long, slender cigars, could mark a turning point
3 min |
November 13, 2019
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Show Me The Way To Go Home
Gas lamps might sound like relics belonging to the past or the land of Narnia, but look closely and they are still illuminating our streets with their warm glow, reveals Harry Wallop
4 min |
November 13, 2019
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Make Britain Green Again
COUNTRYSIDE bodies have been jumping in early with their manifestos in a bid to put eco-friendly agriculture and better environmental protections at the heart of the preelection political discourse.
1 min |
November 13, 2019
Country Life UK
How To Make A Good Impression
It’s time to break for the (Scottish) Borders: three fine houses there have come on the market, including the home of Rory Bremne
4 min |
November 13, 2019
Country Life UK
All's Well That Ends Well
Eschewing a cheap flight in favour of a good old-fashioned driving holiday, Nigel Havers embarks on a wine trip to France, accompanied by his wife George and their poodle, Charley
6 min |
November 13, 2019
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Oxford Sees Red
Brilliant in colour and bold in form, William Butterfield’s buildings for Keble College, designed in 1867, exemplify the avant-garde principles of the Pre-Raphaelite Movement, as Michael Hall explains
7 min |
November 06, 2019
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Rebuilding The Mother Of Parliaments- Palace Of Westminster, London SW1
John Goodall examines the fascinating story of the surviving Victorian interiors of one of Britain’s most familiar buildings and the seat of Parliament
3 min |
November 06, 2019
Country Life UK
Italy On The Isle
The search for privacy and peace encouraged Queen Victoria and Prince Albert to create an Italianate seaside villa. It offers an unparalleled insight into their domestic life and private interests, as John Goodall explains
8 min |
November 06, 2019
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An Englishman's Home Is His Castle
This great house has been made familiar by Downton Abbey. John Goodall looks at the real personalities and history behind a remarkable building
8 min |
November 06, 2019
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An American Evolution
Over the past half century, the care of an American university has returned one of the landmark buildings of early Victorian England to life and splendour. John Goodall reports
9 min |
November 06, 2019
Country Life UK
Who Let The Dogs Out?
Once, all working dogs were consigned to life in a draughty kennel, but now, attitudes and training methods have softened. Katy Birchall considers whether cherished pets can be great gundogs, too.
6 min |
October 2, 2019
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Seeing The Green Light
Once considered worthy and hippyish, embracing environmentally friendly ways of heating and lighting is catching on in town and country, finds Anna Tyzack
8 min |
October 30, 2019
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Sisters in the spotlight
Caroline Bugler admires a new exhibition that reveals the creative role of women in the Pre-Raphaelite circle
3 min |
October 30, 2019
Country Life UK
Love, Love Me Do
From the impressive stag beetle to the Devil’s coach horse and the iridescent glow-worm, David Tomlinson picks his favourite 18 beetles out of the 4,000-plus species thought to reside in the UK, together with an international interloper
6 min |
October 30, 2019
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Moving Heaven And Earth
The environmental lawyer on Buddhism, birdwatching and saving the planet
4 min |
October 30, 2019
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A Year On The Veg
Is it possible to live off vegetables and fruit from your garden all year round? John Wright considers how we could all do more to make the most of home-grown produce
7 min |
October 30, 2019
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A Family Affair
The restoration and revival of this house is bound up with more than merely bricks and mortar. It expresses a remarkably long family connection to the building and the place, as John Martin Robinson discovers
6 min |
October 30, 2019
Country Life UK
Bagging A Brace On The Brora
Spey casting in a gale in the peat-stained waters of Sutherland’s fickle River Brora proves to be something of a challenge, until our correspondent deploys a Willie Gunn fly
3 min |
October 23, 2019
Country Life UK
Modernising A Medieval Seat Of Learning
In the second of two articles, Geoffrey Tyack examines the development of one of Oxford’s most imposing medieval colleges from the Reformation to the present day
7 min |
October 23, 2019
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Meet Pici, Britain's Naughtiest Dog
Sociable, sun-loving and incredibly patient with children, this innocent-looking Jack Russell actually enjoys a secret life of crime. Victoria Marston finds out more and introduces the runners-up
7 min |
October 23, 2019
Country Life UK
My Stirrup Cup Runneth Over
Intricate and valuable silver stirrup cups, be they fox, hound, fish, bear, eagle or even gorilla, are far more likely to be found in a safe than on the hunting field today, explains Peter Greenhalgh
3 min |
October 23, 2019
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By The Light Of A Woodcock Moon
Beguiling, enigmatic and notoriously difficult to shoot, the woodcock is one of our most mysterious and coveted birds. Adrian Dangar considers how this wily wader should best be conserved
7 min |
October 23, 2019
Country Life UK
Paradise In Peru
WHERE better to sit sipping a pisco sour than watching a Peruvian Paso horse perform its extraordinary four-beat ‘swimming’ gait surrounded by a vineyard and the oldest working distillery in the Americas in a coastal valley of the Ica region of Peru?
1 min |
October 23, 2019
Country Life UK
Same Game, New Rules
He might devour snipe on toast with greedy glee, but Tom Parker Bowles believes that modern game cookery, from wild-boar ragu to pulled-pheasant bao buns, is the key to spreading the love
6 min |
October 23, 2019
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A Car For All Seasons
Is there a perfect all-round sporting vehicle that’s man enough for the field, with ample space for guns, rods and dogs, but slick on the road, too, asks Charles Rangeley-Wilson
5 min |