All content Archive | April 2025

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April 15th
- How an app can make you fall in love with nature, with Melissa Harrison
- 'There is nothing like it on this side of Arcadia': Hampshire's Grange Festival is making radical changes ahead of the 2025 country-house opera season
April 14th
- Welcome to the modern party barn, where disco balls are 'non-negotiable'
- Jungle temples, pet snakes and the most expensive car in the world: Country Life Quiz of the Day, April 14, 2025
- Why British designers dream up the most desirable hotels
- The five minute guide to 'The Great Gatsby', a century on from its publication
April 13th
- Five beautiful homes, from a barn conversion to an island treasure, as seen in Country Life
- Shark tanks, crocodile lagoons, laser defences, and a subterranean shooting gallery — nothing is impossible when making the ultimate garage
- Arthur Parkinson: I am a cleaner, security guard and matron to my happy hens
- ‘David Hockney 25’ at the Fondation Louis Vuitton: Britain’s most influential contemporary artist pops up in Paris to remind us all of the joys of spring
- High Wardington House: A warm, characterful home that shows just what can be achieved with thought, invention and humour
- Under the hammer: A pair of Van Cleef & Arpels earrings with an intriguing connection to Princess Grace of Monaco
April 12th
- The finest interiors in Edinburgh? A seven-bedroom townhouse furnished by Robert Kime comes to market
- Is anyone more superstitious than a sports star?
- Why LOEWE decided to reimagine the teapot, 25 great designs over
- Minette Batters: 'It would be wrong to turn my back on the farming sector in its hour of need'
- 'This wild stretch of Chilean wasteland gives you what other National Parks cannot — a confounding sense of loneliness': One writer's odyssey to the end of the world
- The man who trekked Bhutan, Mongolia, Japan, Tasmania and New Zealand to bring the world's greatest magnolias back to Kent
April 11th
- A Grade II*-listed country manor with one of the most beautiful drawing rooms in England
- School dinner puddings, Scrabble tiles and Antonio Banderas: Country Life Quiz of the Day, April 11, 2025
- The power of the youthful gaze: A new generation tackles modern day design conundrums
- ‘Large Welsh choirs have long been an obsession’: Accessories designer and ‘Sunday Times’ bestselling author Anya Hindmarch’s consuming passions
- The Ravenna Palazzo where Byron lived and loved is now a museum dedicated to his memory — and it's just been toured by Queen Camilla
- An eight-bedroom home in Surrey where an army of robots will look after your lawns
April 10th
- A French castle for sale on the banks of the Dordogne? With a swimming pool? Where do we sign?
- Gill Meller's recipe for a seasonal new potato omelette, with smoked garlic, onions and Cheddar cheese
- Bond's Aston Martin and Welsh rarebit: Country Life Quiz of the Day, April 10, 2025
- The brilliant Bugattis: Sculpture, silverware, furniture and the fastest cars in the world
- Everything you need to know about one of sport's most gruelling rivalries
- Sip your morning tea where Churchill once paced, as his former Pimlico home comes up for sale
April 9th
- Scary sharks, the T-Rex and fabulous city views: Country Life Quiz of the Day, April 9, 2025
- Live a life of Tudor fancy in this five-bedroom London home with links to Cardinal Wolsey and Henry VIII
- Big, bright and bold: Colourful luggage to inspire your next spring getaway
- Good things come in threes: Sir Cecil Beaton's love of flowers, fashion and fabulous friends in a trio of exhibitions
- Murder, intrigue and 'the magic of a bygone era' at this eight-bedroom home set in 25 acres of Devon countryside
April 8th
- From robins and hedgehogs to the Loch Ness Monster: Professor Karen Jones on Beastly Britain
- The beautiful island bridge, an otter's life and Churchill's TXT speech: Country Life Quiz of the Day, April 8, 2025
- Holding pattern: The enduring influence of William Morris on film, fashion and design
- The 'best places to live' ranking that lists all 1,447 towns, cities and large villages in England and Wales — who is this year's winner?
- Country Life 9 April 2025
- A six-bedroom house in Wales with estuary views and some gloriously fun interiors
- Jumping hours, guichets and visual theatre: The biggest trend from Watches and Wonders explained
April 7th
- On His Majesty's Not-So Secret Service: Aston Martin receives Royal Warrant from The King
- Number of international buyers of UK property reaches record low
- An architectural masterpiece, frog eyelids and Wordsworth's house: Country Life Quiz of the Day, April 7, 2025
- Terrifying or tremendous? Spend a night at the National Gallery beneath some of the world’s most famous artworks
- Hold the front page: How to find the ladybird hiding on this week's Country Life cover
April 6th
- The humble hazel dormouse — 'the flagship species of the health of our countryside'
- Defender OCTA: Land Rover's classic car, reimagined. And then reimagined again, with 626BHP
- Five grand rural homes for sale, as seen in Country Life
- The grass is always greener: Follow in the footsteps of Sir Andy Murray and play in The Giorgio Armani Tennis Classic
- Film star, resistance fighter and civil rights activist: The life and times of Josephine Baker, 50 years on from her death
- Sir Edwin Lutyens and the architecture of the biggest bank in the world
April 5th
- The treehouse of your dreams is for sale, and it even comes with a country house
- You've got mail: Royal Mail unveils eight folklore-inspired stamps
- 'Rooms can be theatrical and comfortable at the same time': Top tips for decorating with conversation in mind
- The birds of urban paradise: How to get twitching without leaving the city
- The 'breathtakingly magnificent' English country gardens laid out on the Amalfi Coast, and the story of how they got there
- 'The Wild Rabbit is a paean to Lady Carole Bamford's ethos of comfortable, yet incredibly spoiling accommodation'
April 4th
- Five takeaways from Watches and Wonders Geneva 2025
- The poisonous tree lighting up your garden, and name that Farrow & Ball colour: Country Life Quiz of the Day, April 4, 2025
- Harts House: A home straight out of a fairytale for sale in Kent
- ‘To grasp the momentousness of the reopening, one must understand the place The Frick holds in the hearts of New Yorkers’: Inside the splendour of Fifth Avenue’s beloved gallery
- Have your say in the Historic Houses Garden of the Year Awards 2025
- In search of Arcadia at Ayot Bury, the Georgian home and estate that's 30 minutes from central London
April 3rd
- How to make a rhubarb and Swiss meringue cake that's almost too pretty to eat
- From tropical paradise to Tony Benn: Country Life Quiz of the Day, April 3, 2025
- Reader event report: Spaces that feel like home
- The most expensive postcodes outside of London have been revealed
- Meet the willow weaving artist whose work is popular on both sides of the pond
April 2nd
- A remarkable $100 million numismatic collection reappears after being buried for more than 50 years
- The Hollywood legend with an even more famous daughter: Country Life Quiz of the Day, April 2, 2025
- A £1.5 million flat on the street where wig and pen once met
- The prettiest Easter eggs for 2025
- The V&A and Burberry announce landmark Fashion Gallery makeover
- A spectacular coastal estate in Dorset set on its own private peninsula
April 1st
- LAPICIDA — Tile & Stone Specialist
- What lies beneath: The weird and wonderful things lurking in Britain's museum basements
- A converted bothy on the shores of Loch Tay from which to enjoy the fresh tastes of Spring
- Name that bun: Country Life Quiz of the Day, April 1, 2025
- Country Life 2 April 2025
- Chloe Dalton: The woman who swapped top-level geopolitics to rescue a baby hare
- An idyllic home in Hampshire that's perfect for the musical mind
- You've gotta catch them all: Everything you need to know about London's giant Easter egg hunt