The ruins 7,000 years older than Stonehenge which overthrow the way we think about our common past
Jason Goodwin visited an ancient site — but he didn't even take his camera. Here's why, and what it told him about what he was seeing.
Smashing vases, feral kittens and putting ice in your wine — Country Life's agony aunt Mrs Hudson on how to deal with the lot
Our much-loved agony aunt is currently on maternity leave; we need her back, and soon. (Keep your eyes peeled this coming summer.)
Asset stripping, helicopters to Gretna Green, drinks all round and land at 5p an acre
Joe Gibbs reminisces about the Dutchmen who made a home in the Highlands — and made quite a splash.
How do you pronounce Belvoir, Featherstonhaugh and Bagehot?
Even simple-looking names like Powell and Coke can trip up the unwary, while Belvoir and Featherstonhaugh are positive linguistic land mines. Eleanor Doughty (Dowty? Dockerty? Dotty?) investigated.
‘Hang on — was I just charged 64 quid for some salad, six chicken strips and a quiche the size of a doorknob?’
Lucy Baring headed in to London and felt the cost of inflation.
Curious Questions: Why do we take Christmas decorations down on January 6th?
Our Curious Questions regular columnist Martin Fone took a look at one of the seemingly-arbitrary quirks of the season.
The day I rescued The Queen
Our long-standing contributor Carla Carlisle was lucky enough to meet the Queen. And even luckier to be able to help Her Majesty out of a bit of a spot.
The burial mounds that pre-date Stonehenge by seven centuries
Vicky Liddell did some digging — pretty much literally — into the mysterious existence of barrows.
‘The very idea of stripes on a lawn made my German friend shudder’
Centrepiece of a classic English country garden, or bourgeois construct of the machine age? Our columnist Jason Goodwin took aim at the lawn.
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17 outstanding homes for sale across Britain, from under £250k to £6.5 million, as seen in Country LifeSomething for every budget in this week's round up of homes across the country that have come to market via Country Life.
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'We started thinking: if we were going to design a bike for Aston Martin, what would it look like? And then we simply couldn’t stop': Aston's new bike has everything you could ever dream of — except a price tagThe new Aston Martin .1R bicycle, a collaboration with manufacturer J.Laverack, leaves Paul Henderson stirred rather than shaken.
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The profitability of agriculture underpins everything in the countryside. Confidence is at rock bottomWeather, taxes and no subsidy. It's not a great time to be producing food in Britain. Agromenes sounds the alarm.
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The National Gallery rehang: 'It is a remarkable feat to hang more with the feeling of less', but the male gaze is still dominantAlmost everything on display at the National Gallery has been moved — and paintings never previously seen brought out — in one of the the biggest curatorial changes in the Gallery's history.
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Exploring the countryside is essential for our wellbeing, but Right to Roam is going backwardsCampaigners in England often point to Scotland as an example of how brilliantly Right to Roam works, but it's not all it's cracked up to be, says Patrick Galbraith.
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Minette Batters: 'It would be wrong to turn my back on the farming sector in its hour of need'Minette Batters explains why she's taken a job at Defra, and bemoans the closure of the Sustainable Farming Incentive.
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Why it’s imperative that schoolchildren have access to art and design classesThe UK’s creative industries are worth £124.6 billion, but suitable classes are being stripped from the curriculum. Tristram Hunt, director of the V&A, outlines what the Museum is planning to do about it.
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The Country Life Christmas message by Revd Dr Colin Heber-Percy: ‘The most powerful person in the world’ is not an emperor, high priest or CEO, but a helpless baby in the arms of a loving motherRevd Dr Colin Heber-Percy on how Christmas shows us that ‘the most powerful person in the world’ is not an emperor, or a high priest or the CEO of a tech company, but a helpless baby in the arms of a loving mother.
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'Keep thy device clean': Country Life's Tech CommandmentsWe all use our phones too much. The least we can do is agree on a set of rules for modern etiquette in a digital age.
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10 ways to save the planet, according to Country LifeThere are many practical ways in which we–individuals, groups and Government–can make a difference to our planet, both locally and nationally. As the General Election looms, we present 10 areas where improvement is badly needed.
