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Footpaths must be fair
Conversations with chatelaines
Good week for
Bad week for
Carving the history books
A dynasty of Chippendale furniture and robot toys
Flowers flourish in safety
Country Mouse • Hare-raising times
Town Mouse • An unexpected delivery
Forsaking all others • Resident agony uncle Kit Hesketh-Harvey solves your dilemmas
100 years ago in COUNTRY LIFE January 29, 1921
Time to buy
Book of the week • Strata: William Smith’s Geological Maps (Thames & Hudson, £50)
Town & Country Notebook
In the spotlight • Brown rat (Rattus norvegicus)
Wines of the week
Happy Groundhog Day
Letters to the Editor
Lighten up
Dissonance and disharmony
The way we were • Photographs from the COUNTRY LIFE archive
The Hon Lois Sturt by Ambrose McEvoy • John McEwen comments on The Hon Lois Sturt
Getting back on song • The director of The Sixteen on the secret of his choir’s much-loved sound
On the record • A Choral Odyssey is on www.thesixteen.com until April 1
The boy who drew Auschwitz • After being liberated from a Nazi death camp, a Jewish boy sketched more than 80 profoundly moving drawings detailing his incarceration. Charlie Inglefield explains how he came to co-author a book of Thomas Geve’s powerful words and pictures
A snake’s-head fritillary in the grass • Once equivocal about wildflowers, Nicholas Coleridge’s mind was opened to their natural beauty by Fritillaria meleagris, which carpets the grounds at Magdalen College in Oxford, as he explains in this extract from Wildflowers for The Queen
Magdalen College, Oxford, Oxfordshire
Fritillaria meleagris
A beacon of learning The John Rylands Library, Manchester • The widow of a successful industrialist turned her inherited fortune towards the creation of one of Britain’s greatest libraries. Steven Brindle explains the story of her foundation and admires the library’s architectural splendour
The very pineapple of perfection • Presented to kings and depicted in portraits, the pineapple was one of Georgian Britain’s ultimate objets de desir. Matthew Dennison traces its journey to the tin at the back of the cupboard
In pursuit of the homegrown pineapple
Cold comfort farm • After a later than usual start on a chilly January morning, John Lewis-Stempel–weighed down by a heavy cold–rushes to feed his bellowing stock and hungry birds
Game on • A surfeit of first-class game and a rising tide of rural innovation have created the perfect storm for a new wave of cured wild meat, reports Nick Hammond
In good taste: treats to try
The tailored home • In the third feature in a series of masterclasses on architecture and design, Country Life’s Executive Editor Giles Kime asks Janine Stone about creating a home exactly tailored to a client’s needs
Interiors The designer's room • Minnie Peters combined natural materials and antique pieces to create a pared-back kitchen with plenty of character
In the making Brooks’s...