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 Lottie Leefe • Lottie is the founder of The Dura Society, a private network that focuses on women’s wealth and wellness. She holds a diploma in financial planning, is listed in the Spear’s 500 most recent list of recommended divorce consultants and is a committee member for Cure Parkinsons’s Grouse and Grape luncheon.

Why didn’t they think of that?

Country Life

‘In-gene-ious’ breakthrough offers lifeline to red squirrels

Town & Country Notebook

Letters to the Editor

Beware the housing targets

Athena • Cultural Crusader

My favourite painting Francelle Bradford White • Dame Christabel Pankhurst by Ethel Wright

An adventure in concrete • The 1924 Wembley Empire Exhibition was conceived on a vast scale, with a bewildering variety of displays that united such themes as Canadian butter, Tutankhamun and toffee tins. It also pioneered the architectural use of concrete, as Kathryn Ferry explains

The legacy • Ada Lovelace and computer programming

Breed for victory • Some treasured native farm animals have fallen dangerously low in numbers, yet they have a crucial role to play in present-day food security and conservation. Kate Green meets the breeders keeping the flame alive

The quest for the holy triumvirate • A call from the Prime Minister on election day comes as a surprise, heralding an unforeseen return to the Defra office

Paint your wagon • Pushed out by the tractor, farm wagons were once the glue that held our countryside together, says Jack Watkins, as he seeks out the last examples standing

Levelling up • Throughout history, the character, drive and tenacity of such prodigiously talented 18 year olds as Nelson, Elizabeth I and Brunel have come to define success, rather than exam results alone, contends Alice Loxton

COUNTRY LIFE’S tech commandments • Toby Keel glances up from his phone to share our rules for modern etiquette in the digital age

If walls could talk • Being able to answer our doors from abroad has changed the way we live, but how do we make the most of the new digital age in a period property with thick walls and weak wifi? Julie Harding has the answers

What makes you click? • Wildlife photography is a window on the natural world and technology is the key. Amie Elizabeth White asks the experts how innovation has transformed the way they capture jaw-dropping imagery

The designer’s room • A sitting room in an hôtel particulier in Paris has become an inviting entertaining space with a striking wallcovering from de Gournay

Pale and interesting • Why cream upholstery is no longer the impractical option it once appeared

Blackwater beauty • In the week of Dublin Horse Show, two historic Irish estates come to the market, one in Co Waterford on the banks of a famed salmon river, the other with mountain and sea views in Co Wicklow

Now you see me… • Virtual property viewings became hugely popular during the pandemic and have remained so, thanks to improved technology. Toby Keel dons a headset

Planting for the future • Following in the steps of her grandfather, keen plantswoman and amateur dendrologist Lady Linlithgow has been planting trees collected on her travels...