Country Life

Published by Time Inc. (UK) Ltd Country Life, the quintessential English magazine, is undoubtedly one of the biggest and instantly recognisable brands in the UK today. It has a unique core mix of contemporary country-related editorial and top end property advertising. Editorially, the magazine comments in-depth on a wide variety of subjects, such as architecture, the arts, gardens and gardening, travel, the countryside, field-sports and wildlife. With renowned columnists and superb photography Country Life delivers the very best of British life every week.

Miss Sarah Elizabeth Freeman • Sarah is an account executive at Bloxham PR. She is engaged to Jack King, whom she will marry at St Andrew’s Church, Churcham, Gloucestershire, and is the daughter of Michael and Christine Freeman of Churcham, Gloucestershire.

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The money’s in the honey

Athena • Cultural Crusader

My favourite painting Ashley Campbell

So much more than a walk in the park • After 75 years, the job required of national parks has changed. They now need to be hothouses of Nature recovery, and it’s time we got on with it

Nationhood and corporation • An imposing home for the newly federated Commonwealth of Australia sought through its design and materials to celebrate themes of union with Britain and national self worth, as G. A. Bremner explains

Country-house Clawdo • Was it the leopard in the dining room, the jackdaw in the kitchen or the ferret in the nursery? Bronwen Riley presents a whodunnit of the worst-behaved pets

All bark and some bite • A vital source of food, a pharmacy and a haven for wildlife, a tree’s living skin is a surprisingly sophisticated surface, says John Lewis-Stempel

Where grace is laced with muscle • Real or fictional, horses have the power to change lives, society and mass opinion. Red Rum, Frankel, Black Beauty, The Pie: Paul Hayward considers his top 12 transformational equine stars

Heart to heart • Red is the colour this season, says Hetty Lintell, with her edit of fiery-hued accessories

Rooms with a cru • Successive lockdowns taught us to make the most of our homes, from the addition of everything from home offices to gyms. However, a wine room offers a much more sybaritic experience, finds Amelia Thorpe

A river runs through it • The meandering waterways of Britain—in this case the Lyvennet, Eden, North Tyne and Taf—have seen it all, from glamping pods and rewilding to medieval village takeovers

The sweet spot • A house under £1.5 million usually offers good, family-sized proportions, while avoiding a jump to 12% Stamp Duty

Wall to wall abundance • Growing your own is one thing, says Tiffany Daneff, but building your own walled kitchen garden from scratch is a quite remarkable achievement

Seed drill

Purple-sprouting broccoli

In matters vegetable, animal and mineral • Opera took a while to catch hold of the popular imagination in Britain, being deemed the work of the Devil at worst and ‘a bit foreign’ at best. John F. Mueller charts its rise in the nation’s cultural lexicon

The evidence of your eyes and ears • Podcasts are taking over. James Fisher finds out what they are, where they came from and what to listen to

Bundle of joy • When Andrew Sim discovered that the unloved portrait of a baby he had acquired at auction was not by his favourite painter, as he had initially hoped, he hung it in his bedroom. A decade later, he would find it hard to let go of

Taking stock • The sale of the Tomasso brothers’ surplus stock at the end of 2023, which included striking pieces such as a 19th-century bronze version of the Borghese...