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A true gentleman lets his hair down
ON Bonfire Night, COUNTRY LIFE hosted a party at No 14, Savile Row, to launch this year's edition of GENTLEMAN'S LIFE.
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November 19, 2025
Country Life UK
Town Mouse
Autumn rituals
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November 19, 2025
Country Life UK
Self-regulation doesn't inspire trust
IN a week when the world caved in for the BBC's establishment, one of its longest-running, most understated programmes scored a prodigious hit. Countryfile out-Clarksoned Clarkson! The episode screened last week showed how British vegetable farmers are fighting back at the devastation caused by drought and flood.
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November 19, 2025
Country Life UK
Howards' end
The Castle Howard Mausoleum, North Yorkshire
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November 19, 2025
Country Life UK
New trail incorporates ancient gems
A NEW 50-mile circular pilgrimage route for riders on the North York Moors was launched earlier this month with a ride joined by 22 equestrians.
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November 19, 2025
Country Life UK
Facing up to a global challenge
EARLIER this autumn, the World Monuments Fund (WMF) made a joint announcement with the Palace Museum of Beijing's Forbidden City, China, about the official opening of the Qianlong Garden after the completion of a conservation project there lasting two decades. Created by the Qianlong Emperor (reigned 1735-96) as a peaceful retreat within this celebrated complex, the garden incorporates 27 exquisitely finished buildings of the period.
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November 19, 2025
Country Life UK
The legacy Sir Joseph Bazalgette and the London sewers
IN the hot summer of 1858, the dreadful stench of human effluent lying in the dry Thames riverbed overwhelmed London.
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November 19, 2025
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Don't be an amber gambler
There are few rules so instilled in the British psyche as those of the traffic light, says Rob Crossan, as he explores the history of this indelible marker of municipal safety
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November 19, 2025
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Born-again classics
A new generation is reinventing the ingredients of classic decoration, says Giles Kime
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November 19, 2025
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My favourite painting Charlotte Lloyd-Webber
Family of Saltimbanques by Pablo Picasso
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November 19, 2025
Country Life UK
On the short list (ed)
Owning listed properties means stepping into centuries of craftsmanship and character, plus, perhaps, a few quirks, but buyers who truly love history wouldn't have it any other way
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November 19, 2025
Country Life UK
Budget blues?
With Chancellor Rachel Reeves's Autumn Budget looming and rumours abounding as to what might be announced, countryside and heritage organisations reveal what they are hoping to hear to fix the turmoil—and what they are dreading
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November 19, 2025
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Waxing lyrical
The gentle flicker of a naked flame dancing with the shadows cast at night has sparked creative minds through the ages
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November 19, 2025
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The last dance
England are taking Bazball to Australia. Will it stand up to a rigorous examination by our Antipodean cousins, or will it be another six weeks of humiliation?
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November 19, 2025
Country Life UK
Compounding errors
The partial demolition of the shell of a Wren church in the 1970s is not an excuse for further mistreatment by the City of London authorities
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November 19, 2025
Country Life UK
Over-egging it
JANE EMILY PHILLIPS'S article about elevenses ('Go on, then...', October 29) brought back a memory from many years ago.
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November 19, 2025
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Awards for blooms and innovation
AN imaginative change of income-stream focus when the Covid pandemic hit has earned Mapperton House and Gardens the inaugural Historic Houses Diversification Award.
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November 19, 2025
Country Life UK
UK underprepared for animal-disease outbreak
A SEVERE animal-disease outbreak, or even concurrent ones, could have disastrous consequences for the UK because the departments that manage such scenarios are underprepared, the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has found.
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November 19, 2025
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Country Mouse
Right place, right time?
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November 19, 2025
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A labour of love
Northwold Manor, Norfolk The home of Prof Warwick Rodwell and Ms Diane Gibbs A heroic restoration project has transformed a house left neglected for more than 50 years. It has also illuminated its remarkable history, as John Goodall explains
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November 19, 2025
Country Life UK
King's garden is people's choice
THE garden at Dumfries House in Ayrshire is so enjoyed by RHS members and the general public that they voted for it in their droves in the annual RHS Partner Garden of the Year 2025 competition, leading to it being crowned the winner.
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November 19, 2025
Country Life UK
Land Reform (Scotland) Bill branded 'junk law'
Unhelpful intervention: land reforms in Scotland send the wrong signals to potential investors, according to Scottish Land & Estates
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November 19, 2025
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Lost stone fragments traced
THE Stone of Destiny's eventful history has included being present at the crowning of monarchs since the inauguration of Alexander III of Scotland in 1249; being seized by Edward I and built into the base of the Coronation Chair at Westminster Abbey; being targeted by Suffragettes; and its removal on Christmas Day 1950 by four students and Scottish nationalists who planned to return it to Scotland.
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November 19, 2025
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The objects that mark a remarkable life
SELECTION of items from the collection of Lady Glenconner, who was Maid of Honour at Elizabeth II's coronation and lady-in-waiting to Princess Margaret, a friend from childhood, will take place at Bonhams New Bond Street on November 18.
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November 12, 2025
Country Life UK
When David took on Goliath
A GROMENES hates bully boys and, in the past fortnight, we have seen them at their destructive work in three of the areas most important to readers of COUNTRY LIFE: agriculture, heritage and intellectual rigour. First, there was the bullying of a small food producer. After probably the best grape harvest ever in this country, there's a good deal of envy of the emerging excellence of English wine. As the changing climate impinges on traditional French vintages, we are increasingly winning prizes, even against the great Champagne houses.
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November 12, 2025
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Diamonds are a pearl's best friend
There was no shortage of glitz and glamour at last month's sale of the late Countess of Airlie's jewellery, but an exquisite tiara shone the brightest
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November 12, 2025
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The portraitist who followed the power
ACCORDING to a 19th-century biographer (John Ruskin), 'In looking at a portrait by Holbein, we are minded of the person painted, not the painter' and, considering the fame of his greatest works, the paucity of documentary evidence for the details of Hans Holbein's life is remarkable. Elizabeth Goldring's achievement is equally so. This is the first full-scale scholarly biography for a century and, as she says, it is 'the first book to tell the story of Holbein's life, art and afterlives in relation to the larger story of the history of art'.
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November 12, 2025
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Going nuts about squirrels
HAVE you eaten grey squirrel? Me neither, but I think we should give it a go.
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November 12, 2025
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A royal success
The gardens of Sandringham House, Sandringham, Norfolk A home of His Majesty King Charles III
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November 12, 2025
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Strike it lucky
We've been using matches for 200 years-but, as Rob Crossan discovers, the story of how they came to be is far more colourful (and hair-raising) than we might imagine
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