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.

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Behind the scenes at the cathedral • St Albans proves to be a welcoming, characterful city of many facets

A Georgian reinvention • The ingenious integration of the polite and service rooms of a handsome 1790s villa has created a modern family home, as Jeremy Musson discovers

Take another little piece of my heart • A bent coin may today be met with bemusement, but traditional romantic keepsakes were so much more inspired than a Hallmark card, says Harry Pearson

The romance of the rose • Generations have sought that unattainable mystical creature, the perfect rose: shapely, dark red and sweetly scented. What is it about this flower that holds us so in thrall, asks Charles Quest-Ritson

Thoroughly good eggs • Tom Parker Bowles meets the mother-and-daughter connoisseurs who supply ethically farmed caviar to the Crown

Taking the rough with the smooth • With the initiative to rescue sheep and the daring to question its master, the rough collie not only lives up to its heroic reputation, but is always right, discovers Katy Birchall

A handle on things • The ladylike top-handle handbag is the style of the season, says Hetty Lintell, with her pick of the most elegant in a rainbow of hues

In the hat of the moment • The hat was once as essential for leaving the house as a pair of trousers, but the sight of a dapper gent sporting one is now all too rare, laments John F. Mueller

The designer’s room • Louise Bradley transformed the rear of her Chelsea home with a calming, pared-back garden room

Glass acts • Garden rooms, greenhouses and orangeries, selected

Family affairs • The comings and goings of various generations and owners make these houses all the more fascinating

Grand tour • History lives on at these fine country houses in the North of England

Music to our ears • As the opera house celebrates its 90th anniversary, Tiffany Daneff visits the gardens–so much a part of being at Glyndebourne–and finds that they are hitting all the high notes

Root planner

More pudding, pease • Simple, but never dull, the comforting savoury pudding was once an adored English staple, so why has it fallen out of favour, asks Tom Parker Bowles

Cold comfort farm • A snowy countryside scene by French painter Alexandre Louis Jacob fills art dealer Glenn Fuller of Gladwell & Patterson with a sense of peace and tranquillity

More than a pretty face • John Singer Sargent shot to fame for his Society portraits, but he was as adept in other genres and excelled at watercolour, often capturing ‘off-duty’ records of his many trips and travelling companions, as Peyton Skipwith discovers

The stuff of legends • The late Maurice ‘Dick’ Turpin, a celebrated antiques dealer and larger-than-life character, had wide-ranging interests, from fine furniture to Blue John, revealed in one of Sworders’ final sales of his London home’s contents

Love in the time of Austen

Bridge and crossword

My love is like a red, red...