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The Royal Mail’s 50th-anniversary Christmas stamps are pretty enough to encourage the sending of real cards

Exam board Pearson has both saved the Art History A level and, therefore, the cultural education of a new generation

Lucy Kirkwood, creator of Chimerica, has written a brilliant new play, The Children

and Rufus Sewell stars in Art at the old Vic this month

English sparkling wine is genuinely challenging Champagne—even Taittinger has bought land here

Mulled wine tastes better in freezing weather and deserted moorlands sparkle

Britain finally has a world-number-one tennis player in Andy Murray

National Hunt racing has a new hero— Thistlecrack, trained by Somerset dairy farmer Colin Tizzard, is favourite for the Cheltenham Gold Cup It’s just 18 days until Christmas Cirl buntings have bounced back from the brink of extinction

Everyone gets a role in the Nativity nowadays, even if they’re only a blade of grass or the third lobster

Country Life will be 120 years old in