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Discover how the UK’s country houses defied the odds to survive as historic monuments and cultural centres

On 1 September 1939, Post Office engineer Tommy Flowers found himself in Berlin to take part in a European conference about telephone systems. Germany invaded Poland the same day. Flowers and a fellow

WITH ADULT OFFSPRING RETURNING TO THE FAMILY NEST IN GREATER NUMBERS THAN EVER, THE LONDON TERRACE HOUSE NEEDS TO ADAPT TO MULTI-GENERATIONAL LIVING, EXPLAINS SERENA FOKSCHANER

Vietnam c.1940s – present

When COUNTRY LIFE’s Henry Avray Tipping spotted a 17th-century four poster languishing in a Herefordshire attic in 1911, he set off a chain of events that saw the bed leave its ancestral home and land at The Met in New York

The story of a network of artists who opposed fascism