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mypepemateosus · 3 months

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thesixthduke · 1 year

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THE MARBLE HALL - ENGLAND

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beautyandtheharpsichord · 2 years

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Holkham Hall, Wells-nex-the-Sea, Norfolk

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livesunique · 2 years

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The grand south front. Holkham Hall, Norfolk, United Kingdom,

Photo by Will Pryce for the Country Life Picture Library.

©Country Life

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septembergold · 4 months

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Tatler heads to Norfolk to celebrate ‘Holkham Hall by Candlelight’, an immersive experience masterminded by the Countess of Leicester.

By Chandler Tregaskes

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centuriespast · 1 year

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Scuptural Heads from Holkham Hall Mount Peter Scheemakers II (1691–1781) and William Kent (c.1685–1748) Mill Road / B1155, Burnham Overy, Norfolk

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oceancentury · 8 months

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Holkham Hall, England, United Kingdom. 📷 jepsolell

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fashionbooksmilano · 2 months

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Country Life

125 Years Of Countryside Living in Great Britain from the archives of Country Life

John Googhall & Kate Green

Foreword by Mark Hedges

Rizzoli Int.Publ., New York 2023, 400 pages, 300 col.ill., 28.63x28.83cm, Hardback, ISBN 978-0-8478-7315-9

euro 100,00

email if you want to buy [email protected]

Live the romance of the British countryside through this lavish tour of the seasons, landscapes, gardens, and great houses that epitomize British country life, as seen through the eyes of Country Life magazine.

For 125 years Country Life has presented its readers with the finest insider’s tour of everything quintessentially British. Now in one volume, this spectacular collection of images offers the best of life in the British countryside, from charming Cotswolds villages to panoramic views across the Yorkshire dales and Glastonbury for readers who will revel in tramping across the heather filled moors to see King Charles’s favorite view in all England, the white cliffs of Dover, and the Dark Hedges of Northern Ireland. Discover on these pages the culture and seasonal activities of country life, whether it be a gentleman farmer showing off his prize cattle, fly fishing in the Scottish highlands, swan upping on the Thames, or cricket on the village green.

Country Life is renowned for its unprecedented access to the magnificent castles and palaces, as well as private estates and manor houses that dot the countryside from Dorset to the Scottish highlands, revealing many to its fans for the first time. In this volume readers are treated to the loveliest and most important houses and gardens from the last century, from Holkham Hall, Chatsworth, and Burghley, to Munstead Wood, Sissinghurst, and Kelmscott.

This book satisfies readers’ seemingly insatiable desire to capture in their own lives a small slice of the romance of English countryside living.

12/02/24

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blackswaneuroparedux · 1 year

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And Englishmen like posing as gods.

- E.M. Forster

The bowler has travelled widely since its beginnings in London in 1849. Appropriated by everyone from cowboys in the American West to Quechua women in Bolivia, who were introduced to the hat by British railway workers in the 1920s, the iconic piece of headwear began with two men called - perhaps unsurprisingly - Edward Coke and Thomas Bowler.

Coke, the younger brother of the 2nd Earl of Leicester, walked into the famous London hat-makers Lock & Co with a problem. The top hats worn by his gamekeepers on the Holkham Hall estate in Norfolk kept falling off but they needed to wear something to protect their heads from low-hanging branches and poacher attacks.

Bowler, Lock’s chief hat-maker, rose to the challenge and put together a prototype. To test the hat’s strength, the story goes that Coke threw it on the floor and jumped up and down on it. The resilient bowler passed with flying colours and Coke paid 12 shillings for it.

The bowler’s combination of practicality and style has made it appeal to a wide range of people throughout its history. Railway workers and American cowboys - think Butch Cassidy or Billy the Kid - adopted it as their own because it would not blow off easily when they were on horseback or hanging their heads from the windows of speeding trains.

In Britain, the bowler was first worn by the Victorian working classes but by the 1950s and 1960s it came to epitomise the “City gent” - along with a pinstripe suit and a black umbrella.

Today, cavalry officers still wear bowler hats and suits for their annual parade in Hyde Park on what is known as Cavalry Sunday in May. The tradition stems from the fact the outfit was considered correct dress just before the First World War and officers are still expected to wear their City gent attire whenever they are in London on duty.

One of Britain’s most famous hat devotees, Winston Churchill is known to have favoured the Homburg, but he pulled off a bowler with aplomb. To this day, Lock & Co still sell thousands of Cokes each year to City workers and ex-military customers, while the Earl of Leicester continues to buy the hat to which his ancestor gave his name for his gamekeepers on the completion of one year’s service.