Country Life 5 June 2024

Country Life 5 June 2024 goes on a British wildlife safari, looks ahead to the King's birthday parade, and meets the eccentrics who collect everything from taxidermy to tanks.

Here’s a look at some of what you’ll find inside.

Stuff and nonsense

Collectors explain their peculiar passions, from tanks to taxidermy, tulips to teddy bears, to Kate Green, Agnes Stamp, Tiffany Daneff and Octavia Pollock

A walk on the wild side

Ben Lerwill embarks on a great British safari, seeking out the best places to witness the full colour of Nature, from red deer to golden eagles and brown argus butterflies to grey seals

Standing on ceremony

The spectacle of The King’s Birthday Parade will summon up a vision from a bygone age, suggests Simon Doughty, as he chronicles the evolution of the ceremonial uniform

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The legacy

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Her green and pleasant land

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Fresh as a summer breeze

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Interiors

A lambing shed turned home office wows Arabella Youens

London Life

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Floreat Etona

Education and horticulture still go hand in hand at Eton in Berkshire, as George Plumptre discovers

Kitchen garden cook

Savour tart gooseberries this summer, says Melanie Johnson

Native herbs

John Wright extols the virtues of the underused wild marjoram

The good stuff

Hetty Lintell’s deck-shoe shuffle

Travel

  • Emma Love sets sail on luxury yachts
  • Lauren Ho puts her best foot forward in Zambia
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A little to the left

Being left-handed is no barrier to greatness, finds Bernard Bale

Locket, stock and barrel

Matthew Dennison explores the appeal of this must-have trinket

Scent from above

Watch out — wild honeysuckle has a darker side, warns Ian Morton

And much more