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The news in 2021

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The nation asks the Trust • This year saw the 125th anniversary of the National Trust. In what might be described as the Trust’s most challenging year ever, director-general Hilary McGrady answers your questions about the organisation’s past, present and future

Locking in the loupers

What treasures lie beneath?

The answers you need

Country Mouse • Life goes on

Town Mouse • A funny old New Year

100 years ago in COUNTRY LIFE January 1, 1921

Town & Country Notebook

In the spotlight

Wines of the week

Letters to the Editor

COUNTRY LIFE DECEMBER 30

The worst possible timing

Judge a statue by its founder

The way we were • Photographs from the COUNTRY LIFE archive

John McEwen comments on Madonna di Senigallia

Murder in the cathedral • Thomas Becket, the Archbishop of Canterbury, was famously murdered in Canterbury Cathedral exactly 850 years ago. John Goodall revisits this brutal event and considers its consequences

If the wig fits • Rugby boys in dresses, bankers in tights, aristocrats in full Mars and Venus regalia: why do we Britons shed all inhibitions in the face of fancy dress, asks Kit Hesketh-Harvey

An Irish inferno • Between 1919 and 1923, in the War of Independence and the subsequent civil war, nearly 300 country houses were burned in Ireland. To mark the centenary of the events, Terence Dooley re-appraises the motives behind this destruction

Spotlight on staycations

The big picture

In his tracks

Just go, you deserve it • Rosie Paterson suggests where to go and what to do next year

Natalie Jones, founder of lifestyle shop and B&B Caro Somerset

James Bell, co-founder of Turquoise Holiday Company

In the know

Take to the road

Where to stay

A home from home

Ask the expert George Morgan Grenville, founder and CEO of Red Savannah

Keep it familial

If you go down to the jungle today • On a trip to Africa’s self-proclaimed safest country, John Goodall finds a Rwanda free from the grip of its turbulent past and comes face-to-face with two of its most astonishing and heavily protected residents

At a glance: John’s itinerary

The top 10 • From grande dames to brand-new boltholes and everything in between, COUNTRY LIFE rounds up the hotels and villas that should be top of your wishlist in 2021

Ask the expert Henry Cookson, polar explorer and founder of Cookson Adventures

To the beach • Step into the sun with Hetty Lintell’s edit of eternally chic accessories

Go with the tide • Nigel Tisdall falls for northern India aboard a luxury river cruise on the country’s greatest sacred river

At a glance: Nigel’s itinerary

What to do

Where to stay

Hardback to backpack • Friends of COUNTRY LIFE recount the novels and films that have inspired them to travel

How to do it

Where to eat

How to do it

Where to stay

Where to eat

Parental guidance • Gap years no longer mean saying goodbye to your offspring for months at a...