Country Life 22 January 2020
Country Life 22 January takes a look at how to preserve our nations songbirds, looks back on the wonders of the Roaring Twenties and explores the stories of Merlin, the Holy Grail and a miraculous salmon.


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SILENCE OF THE BIRDS: Tom Streeter of SongBird Survival talks to Kate Green about the charity’s work in saving avian songsters
SHAKESPEARE, DEMOCRACYAND RASPBERRY-RIPPLE: The great British philistine is a notable addition to the world, argues David Turner
ROARING TWENTIES: Ysenda Maxtone Graham sets out her wishlist for the 2020s and Victoria Marston finds the icons that made the 1920s a success
LAND OF MYTH AND LEGEND: Amy Jeffs recalls the stories of Merlin, the Holy Grail and a miraculous salmon
INTERIORS: Magnificent four-poster beds
ARCHITECTURE: The re-working of Ogston House, Derbyshire, in the 1850s resulted in a coherent whole
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CLEMENTINES: Melanie Johnson makes a cake and salads
I SPY: Being immortalised as a Spy caricature in Vanity Fair was once a gentleman’s dream, observes Eleanor Doughty
ROLLIN’, ROLLIN’, ROLLIN’: The audacious Rolls-Royce Cullinan is a king of cars, says Charles Rangeley-Wilson
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Uniquely unique? The Yorkshire grain silos transformed into a home that's a symphony in glass, steel and curves
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