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 Eleanor Moulding • Eleanor is the UK travel manager at Velocity Black, part of Capital One Banking, and holds a Master’s degree from King’s College London. She is the daughter of Tim and Beverley Moulding of Lower Woodford, Salisbury, Wiltshire.

Small is beautiful

Country Life

Town & Country

Town & Country Notebook

Letters to the Editor

How to give a Budget bounce

Athena • Cultural Crusader

My favourite painting Nevin Truesdale

Salt of the earth • Industry and farming are juxtaposed to startling effect on the Cheshire Plain

Novelty with age • An ingeniously planned new house on a small scale takes advantage of the landscape of a large predecessor demolished in the 1950s, as John Martin Robinson explains

The legacy Alfred Wainwright and fell walking

Life in miniature • A portfolio of the best of British design, Queen Mary’s Dolls’ House continues to inspire national pride a century after its creation, says Matthew Dennison

Liquid history • Once responsible for revolutionising writing, traditional iron-gall ink is now eating away at our most treasured historical records, discovers Ian Morton

Into the blue • As spring dawns, a fleeting explosion of mercurial blue colours our world, enthuses Deborah Nicholls-Lee

Cupboard love • Everything–including the kitchen sink–to update your culinary quarters, selected by Amelia Thorpe

Keys to success • A trio of exquisite East Anglian country houses is destined to turn the heads of discerning buyers

A room of granny’s own • Houses with undeniably useful separate accommodation

Going with the flow • Tilly Ware visits a garden patiently developed over 40 years with wonderful plants and a free-flowing naturalistic vision

Blanc de blancs

I’m sweet on you • What? More puddings? Definitely yes, says Tom Parker Bowles, as he celebrates our desire to devour sweet, sticky and spoiling delights, from trifles, crumbles and fools to fruit pies and piping-hot, steamed treacle sponges

Sign of the times • The Netflix adaptation of David Nicholls’s One Day has caused all sorts of stirrings, not least for Dexter’s signet ring, inspiring Hetty Lintell to collate a fine selection

Voyages news

Love in the sails • Synonymous with sapphire Turkish seas, gulets now offer a luxurious and relaxed holiday, with even a touch of romance in the air, finds Adam Hay-Nicholls

This little river went to market • Jane Archer takes to the water for a voyage of discovery through five countries

Into the deep • Rosie Paterson takes a breath and dives with gargantuan humpback whales in the ancient archipelagos of the South Pacific

To bare or not to bare?

That’s my girl • Brynhild Parker’s 1931 portrait of an unknown child, tiny against a huge chair, tugs at the heartstrings of dealer Florence Evans, as she reveals to Carla Passino

People who live in paper houses • Each of us has treasured memories of our home, past or present. Catriona Gray meets artist Ele Grafton, who captures these individual stories using vintage books and documents

Back to the drawing board • Works on paper past and present take...