Best of Britain: Our Nation's greatest glories

Some of our national treasures - from Sir John Major to Robert Dyson, talk to Country Life about the fields in which we really excel this week, as we celebrate all that is really great about Britain today

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In our Best of Britain issue we have pulled together a great number of friends and national treasures - experts in their fields - to talk to us directly about what makes Britain so great today.

Our contributors are Antony Woodward, Barney White-Spunner, The Bishop of London, Boris Johnson, Chris Grayling, David Linley, David Morgan Hewitt, Hugh Dennis, James Dyson, John Hitchcock, John Major, Jools Holland, Julian Fellowes, Lady Bamford, Lord Dannatt, Lord March, Michael Eavis, Michael Billington, Nicky Haslam, Princess Anne, Simon Jenkins, Sir Roy Strong, Sir Trevor Nunn, The Duke of Northumberland, Tom Parker Bowles, Tony Little, and Vivienne Westwood.

Read our articles from this week's issue celebrating the very best of Britain today, online.

* Britain's greatest country houses

* Britain's best rose garden

* Read Lucinda Green on The Horse

* Read more on our Best of Britain preferred partners

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