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What everyone is talking about this week: 'There’s always been something alluring about reading in public, now, it comes with bravado'
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Embrace off-grid living on this Scottish island for sale, but you'll have to share it with the local seal population
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Are you a 'frag head'? Country Life Quiz of the Day, June 30, 2025
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Sarah Raven: The flowers I have that are flourishing superbly, despite the battering heat
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‘Going around that track, in that Ferrari, was ecstasy of the most legal kind’: How to embrace your inner race car driver
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Game, set, match: 12 of the world’s most beautiful tennis courts beyond SW19
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Hot dogs: How to keep your dog healthy in a summer heatwave, by expert trainer Ben Randall
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‘It has been destroyed beyond repair, not by the effect of gunfire, but by a deliberate act of vandalism’: Britain’s long lost great houses that live on only inside the Country Life archive
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Henry Holland's consuming passions: 'I started my career as the fashion editor of Smash Hits magazine and I am still a pop tart at heart!'
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The extraordinary Exe Estuary, by the Earl whose family have lived here for 700 years
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‘There are moments of formal dressing where one is humbled by the rules of it all’: A New Yorker tackles Royal Ascot for the first time
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Embrace off-grid living on this Scottish island for sale, but you'll have to share it with the local seal population
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18 beautiful homes, from charming cottages to a Highland mansion with unbeatable views, as seen in Country Life
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The gorgeous Somerset home of the designer behind one of Glastonbury's chicest spots
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Best country houses for sale this week
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826 years of history, painstaking restoration and 'a garden like no other' at this former National Trust house which has come to the market in Kent
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A wisteria-clad delight with lawns running down to the Thames at the prettiest riverside home for sale in London today
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Five of the most majestic properties for sale in Britain today, from a 1,700-acre estate to a private island, as seen in Country Life
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'Comfortable, cosseting and far from the madding crowd': The recently refurbished Cornish cottage that proves Victorian decor is making a comeback
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18 inspiring ideas to help you make the most of meals in the garden this summer
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'These aren't just rooms. They are spaces configured with enormous cunning, artfully combining beauty with functionality': Giles Kime on the wonders of WOW!house 2025
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How the deep-lustre of copper brings period glamour to this kitchen
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The beauty’s in the detail: How English stone specialist Artorius Faber helped to bring Country Life's Chelsea stand to life
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A feast of ideas: What to expect at WOW!house 2025
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Curious Questions: Where did the viral Instagram Shaker kitchen come from — and how is it linked to Quakerism?
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The designer's room: How rare, 19th-century wallpaper was repurposed inside a Grade I-listed apartment complex on London's Piccadilly
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‘I get all twitchy when I see people wearing something that really doesn’t belong’: A watch for every summer occasion
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Coco's crush: Chanel's century-long love affair with Britain and its men
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Critics be damned, Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral gets Grade I status on advice from Historic England
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From the Country Life archive: The questionable vacuum caps that promised a 'healthy, vigorous growth of hair'
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Hope from the ashes: This new generation of ash trees is more resistant to dieback
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The golden eagle: One of the Great British public's favourite birds of prey — but devilishly tricky to identify
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From turtles to pink sea fans: Why Mediterranean marine life is drifting into British waters
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Sarah Raven: The flowers I have that are flourishing superbly, despite the battering heat
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The 'Rose Labyrinth' of Coughton Court, where 200 varieties come together in this world-renowned garden in Warwickshire
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'None of this would be here had the tithe barn not burned down that night’: How the terrifying destruction of a medieval landmark sparked the creation of the magnificent gardens of Bledlow Manor
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'The whole house shook. Everything was white. For four months, it felt as if we were on Mars': The story behind one of Hampshire's most breathtaking gardens
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Myddleton House: The place that 'will help you learn what true gardening is' is open to everyone, and just 30 minutes from central London
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'Victorian magnificence skilfully simplified and distilled': A peek at the restoration of Somerleyton Hall gardens
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Canine muses: The English bull terrier who helped transform her owner from 'a photographer into an artist'
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Richard Rogers: 'Talking Buildings' is a fitting testament to the elegance of utility
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‘The perfect hostess, he called her’: A five minute guide to Virgina Woolf’s ‘Mrs Dalloway’
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This obscure and unloved picture that turned out to be Turner's first oil painting — and it's about to sell for 500 times what it last cost
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Game, set, match: 12 of the world’s most beautiful tennis courts beyond SW19
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'Meat, ale and guns — what else do you need, bar glorious scenery?': William Sitwell on the Brendon Hills, West Somerset
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'Fences have blocked wildlife corridors, causing the wildebeest migration to collapse from 140,000 individuals to fewer than 15,000': Is the opening of the Ritz-Carlton in Kenya’s Masai Mara National Reserve a cause for celebration or concern?
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The pristine and unspoilt English county that 'has all the ingredients of perfection'
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The extraordinary Exe Estuary, by the Earl whose family have lived here for 700 years
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‘So old-fashioned, it’s new-fashioned’: Riding the rails on the Belmond Royal Scotsman
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How to make The Connaught Bar's legendary martini — and a few others
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Gill Meller's tomato, egg, bread and herb big-hearted summer salad
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Sophia Money-Coutts: Why clinking glasses and saying ‘Cheers!’ is a tiny bit embarrassing
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What do an order of Catholic priests and actor Hugh Bonneville have in common? They helped this West Sussex sparkling wine triumph over multiple French Champagne houses
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11 golden rules for making a perfect cup of tea
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How to make Eton mess strawberry blondies
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The era of the £50 burger and chips is here — and it's a revelation
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