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- July 30th
- Country Life 31 July 2024
- 'Downton Abbey meets Soho House' at a £3.6 million mansion in Tunbridge Wells
- The Country Life guide to New York: Where to go, what to see, where to stay and what to eat
- Jason Goodwin: 'I slung my boots around my neck and squeezed the mud between my toes. Touching the earth with my feet — puddles, grass, leafmould — was curiously liberating'
- July 29th
- July 28th
- July 27th
- The Ned review: A gargantuan and historic hotel and members’ club in the heart of London
- A Georgian home worthy of a starring role in a period drama, at the heart of a 286-acre Wiltshire estate
- Curious Questions: Why is race walking an Olympic sport?
- Two weeks in Tahiti: What it's like visiting the site of the 2024 Olympic surfing venue
- What's in a colour? The mystery behind our obsession with green
- July 26th
- How large-scale wallpapers transport you to another world
- A'hoy there! The best adventurous boat charters from around the globe
- Great western: The best places to live west of London, from Cirencester and Salisbury to Corsham and Bath
- 'I painted my own reality': The five key moments that defined Frida Kahlo's life and work
- July 25th
- Reaching Olympian heights: 10 moments which define the original spirit of The Olympics
- From siege engines to Passivhaus: How oak holds its own
- A gorgeous Georgian house in one of the South Downs' prettiest villages, for sale for the first time in half a century
- Tom Parker-Bowles on the BBQ: 'Cooking over coals is both empirical science and blessed art, as well as mastery, albeit temporary, of that naughty Titan’s greatest gift'
- July 24th
- Cheval Blanc St Tropez review: The French hotel redefining what luxury means
- Four floors of contemporary living among the trees in Newquay
- Paris 1924, when sport came headfirst into an intoxicating mix of art, fashion and desire
- A true labour-of-love country house with pool, party barn and endless 19th century charm
- July 23rd
- La Corbière lighthouse: How 'the herdsman of the waves' has protected the Channel for 150 years
- Country Life 24 July 2024
- A 700-year-old mill and exquisite mansion come up for sale in one of the prettiest corners of Jersey
- Patrick Galbraith: 'The Itchen is a place of such pastoral beauty that it’s almost too much to take in'
- July 22nd
- 'She adored Elvis and wore slippers with his face printed on them': How Debo Devonshire is inspiring fashion 10 years after her death
- The best beaches in Britain, by the man who's just spend seven weeks visiting 583 of them
- Four spectacular island homes in Jersey, from £3.5m to £16m
- The Legacy: Thomas Twining, the man who made such good tea, not even the Boston rebels would toss it in the harbour
- July 21st
- Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire and Jersey: Five of the best properties for sale in Country Life this week
- Charles Quest-Ritson: 'Gardens of supreme botanical importance are being degraded by new owners and changing priorities'
- How to get your dog ready to stay in kennels when you go away
- The chapel of Lincoln College, Oxford: 'Most costly and church-wise'
- The history of Lincoln College, Oxford: Salvaging the vine
- July 20th
- A Lutyens' designed house on the edge of Dartmoor with four bedrooms that survived a fire.
- Curious Questions: Why do all of Britain's dolphins and whales belong to the King?
- Hotel du Cap-Eden Roc's infamous cabanas have had a face lift
- 'An inspirational renaissance': The house and gardens of Sandridge Park
- July 19th
- The F1 legend who hitched a lift on a victory lap, why drivers no longer spray Champagne, and seven more things you should know about Formula 1
- An incredible Jersey mansion on the market for the first time in half a century
- Why your spare room should be an exciting treat — and more fun than being at home
- Thanks be to Jeremy? What you need to know about the changes to permitted development rights
- Henry Wood: The man who made The Proms
- July 18th
- July 17th
- July 16th
- July 15th
- July 14th
- July 13th
- Florence Nightingale's wisteria-and-ivy-clad childhood home is up for sale — and its incredible setting offers truly life-enhancing beauty
- Curious Questions: What is mock turtle soup? And did it come before or after 'Alice in Wonderland'?
- Burleigh Court hotel review: 'An unassuming, elegant and comfortable destination'
- The Experts' Experts: Britain's top designers, architects and craftspeople name the people they trust to work on their own homes
- July 12th
- July 11th
- A literal chocolate box cottage for sale as the gorgeous place that starred in an iconic Mars bar advert comes to market
- Coming soon: London's largest private residential terrace
- The sacred, the profane, the chaste and the lascivious: The secrets of the best strawberries according to Tom Parker-Bowles
- July 10th
- July 9th
- From a bungalow to riverside brilliance: a home on the Thames that lives up to its name
- Country Life 10 July 2024
- Lose yourself in nature in the heart of Truro at the former home of D.M. Thomas
- ‘The teacher asked us to paint "like we were having sex"': How to kill seven days 'voyaging' on the Queen Mary 2
- July 8th
- 'The Swiss Army Knife of foods': Untangling the truth and lies around milk
- Royal connections, rooms of resplendence and your very own airstrip: A glorious compact estate in Kent
- How to use the home to explain the past, the present and the future, with Sonia Solicari
- The world's most beautiful theatre, and the visionary who created it with manual labour 'plus a few sticks of dynamite'
- July 7th
- 20 wonderful homes, from clifftop cottages to cosy medieval dwellings, as seen in Country Life
- Arthur Parkinson: Why I spent hours among the headstones at the local churchyard with my bucket and spade
- How the spectacular Wolterton Hall went from Georgian splendour to a Palladian masterpiece you can rent by the weekend
- July 6th
- A 400-year-old fantasy house with moat, four-poster beds and a 'magic' swimming pool that converts into a ballroom
- Curious Questions: Where does the phrase 'daylight robbery' come from? It's literally about the theft of daylight
- The former smugglers' inn that became one of the finest gardens on the south coast
- The Country Life guide to St Tropez: Where to go, what to see, where to stay and what to eat
- July 5th
- July 4th
- July 3rd
- July 2nd
- July 1st
- 'If you get 12 great photographs a year, you're doing well': Charlie Waite on the secrets of landscape photography
- The technique used to make the Bayeux Tapestry is back in fashion after 950 years
- A Hampshire estate with some of finest trees in the county, as well as an 11-bedroom house
- My Favourite Painting: Rob Houchen
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