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Animal magic

Eleanor Hervey- Bathurst’s fallow buck

From Here To Eternity

Arabella Youens asks Chris and Nicola Cox how they create the heirlooms of the future.

Lands Of Hope And Glory

Could these two historic houses galvanise the market into action?

The Place Beneath The Pines

Cheval Blanc St-Tropez, France.

A Mediterranean Vision

The restoration of this neo-Classical villa and garden bring to life the extraordinary vision of Ferdinand Bac, an artist, writer and garden designer. Tim Richardson reports

Terroir Of Plenty

Being unplugged, seasonreliant and tapped into Nature sounds dangerously trendy, but is the way of life for swathes of France’s rural population. Arabella Youens investigates where to buy to live off the land

Bring Farming Back To Earth

A return to mixed farming systems, as well as educating the public about the value of well-managed livestock, is the best way to save our soils

Grape Expectations

John Lewis-Stempel visits the village of Cognac to learn how the eponymous digestif and the local wine, pineau, is made

But It's A Hyundai

The Korean Hyundai Santa Fe might not be as sought-after as some German four-wheel drives, but it should be, because it’s comfortable, refined and classy

Down To Earth

The RHS president on his hopes for the horticultural industry

The Great Survivor

For 140 years, the pioneering nursery McBean’s Orchids has set the gold standard ard and, today, it continues against great odds to create the finest blooms. Mark Griffiths celebrates its extraordinary achievements

The Grey Horse By Sir Alfred Munnings

John McEwen comments on The Grey Horse

The Revolution Is Coming

Robots, no set exams, artificial intelligence: is this the future of education? Angus Cater asks three public-school heads how they’re preparing pupils for a radically different world to the one their parents knew.

Storm Gathers On Farming's Horizon

FARMING bodies have expressed concerns at the prospect of leaving the EU with no trade agreement, because they believe it could damage British agriculture and undermine our food security.

The Age Of Supervet

TV’s new favourite vet on why animals deserve better and how he wants to change attitudes.

Where No One Has Gone Before

It’s a commonly held belief in these parts that West Cork, despite being a tad on the remote side, has something to offer no matter what your interests are. take Oliver, 13. Rocket-fuelled by a summer-holiday diet of old space movies—2001: A Space Odyssey, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Planet of the Apes and so on—he’s given up earlier plans to become a pirate and now intends to be an astronaut.

The designer's room

Alidad has created a bathroom that combines modern comfort with Hollywood glamour.

Jam And Jerusalem

THE original Hartley’s jam factory on the outskirts of Liverpool and its village of 49 workers’ houses, neoGothic mortuary chapels at Brandwood End Cemetery, Birmingham, and a Grade II*-listed church in Leeds with additions by Pugin are among the Victorian Society’s top 10 buildings in desperate need of repair for 2018, released today.

A Dog Is Not Just For Christmas

LAST month, following the Lucy’s Law campaign—named for a Cavalier King Charles spaniel that was kept in a cage most of her life before being rescued from a Welsh puppy farm five years ago—Defra announced a ban on thirdparty puppy sales.

The Flight Into Egypt By Jacopo Bassano

John McEwen comments on The Flight into Egypt

Of Hadrian, Heat And History

One of Britain’s most famous landmarks makes for an epic walk back in time

Making Colour Sing/Scream

Duncan Macmillan is transported by the highly charged works of the pioneering German Expressionist

Country Life/Yiangou Drawing Competition

Readers are invited to enter the Art of the Hearth competition to design a fireplace, in a collaboration between COUNTRY LIFE and Yiangou Architects to promote the role of hand drawing in the design process

Why midges don't like mint

Plant potatoes on Good Friday, grow beans in a horse-hair mattress and scatter elephant dung to keep out roe deer. Jeremy Hobson searches for the truth in our gardening folklore

To Market, To Market!

COUNTRY LIFE, with the expert assistance of Savills, presents the top 10 market towns in Britain.

Do You Believe?

Magic has not lost its power over us, as a spellbinding new show confirms to Laura Gascoigne.

Without Them We Are Nothing

A clutch of new books leaves Bill Turnbull buzzing with new knowledge about his bees.

Bedded Bliss

Interior designer Veere Grenney tells Arabella Youens why the only bed to have is a four-poster.

Southern Comforts

Fortnum & Mason’s newest whisky, which is distilled in the heart of the Cotswolds, goes against the grain.

A Return To Eden

An artist and architect of the Arts-and-Crafts Movement fought to preserve the beauties of Chipping Campden and the Cotswolds. Clive Aslet tells the remarkable story of his struggle and its legacy.