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 Jemima Rose Howden • Jemima is an event rider training with the GB Eventing Talent Academy. She will ride for TeamGB at the Young Rider European Championships in Poland this month and has qualified for the Dubarry Burghley Young Event Horse Final in September. Jemima is the daughter of David and Fiona Howden of Cornbury House, Charlbury, Oxfordshire, where she will compete in the Cornbury House Horse Trials next month. She follows in the footsteps of her sister, Talitha, who appeared on the Frontispiece on September 29, 2021.

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Country Life

Time of your life

Town & Country Notebook

Letters to the Editor

The silly season dawns

Athena • Cultural Crusader

My favourite painting Harriet Hastings

Against the Grain • A good farmer and a good friend

A consolation and pleasure • Prince Albert took a close interest in architecture and oversaw a series of major building projects. Michael Hall considers his claims to be thought of as an architect

The legacy Sir Henry Tate and Tate Gallery

The secret history of flowers • With no written records, the earliest inhabitants of these isles left a living dossier of cultural history in the folklore attached to our wildflowers, says John Lewis-Stempel

Up where the air is clear • A shed is merely somewhere to keep tools. A hut, on the other hand, is a doorway to sporting adventure, advocates Robin Ashcroft

Bottoms up • Why do so many animals have such obviously flashy appendages, asks Laura Parker, as she examines scuts, rumps and rears

You rang, your majesty? • Tending the royal bottom might be considered one of the worst jobs in history, but a life in elite domestic service offered many opportunities for self-advancement, finds Susan Jenkins

Summer’s last stand • Changeable weather turns our thoughts to securing a bountiful harvest and the winter beyond, says Lia Leendertz

Under cover • That most practical beach accessory, the sarong, is back in fashion. Hetty Lintell wraps up

The designer’s room • The sitting room of an Arts-and-Crafts house in the Surrey Hills has been brought to life with a palette of lively colours

The trappings of office • Key pieces for working from home, selected by Amelia Thorpe

A family affair • A remarkable Edwardian country house is on the market for the first time and wine, cider and hops spice things up at a manoir estate, both in Herefordshire

A life less ordinary • Unusual properties from North to South, some with inhabitants of note

London Life • Your indispensable guide to the capital

London Life Need to Know

Capital clichés • There’s no shortage of eccentric characters in London, says William Hosie, who has bumped into a host of them and lived to tell the tale

A new chapter • The British Museum’s Reading Room–where Sylvia Pankhurst and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle once worked–has reopened at last. Richard MacKichan celebrates

Presiding spirits • Catherine FitzGerald is the fourth generation of women in her family to put her mark on the gardens of Glin. Caroline Donald admires her subtle tweaks and new additions

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