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 Poppy Salter • Poppy works in investor relations at a financial advisory firm in London’s Mayfair and is engaged to Liam McHugh, whom she will marry at the Winchester House Club, London, in September. She is the daughter of Peter Salter of Mallerstang, Cumbria, and Sarah Stubbs of North Warnborough, Hampshire.

Sugar and spice

Country Life

The great escape artist

Town & Country Notebook

Letters to the Editor

WFH is here to stay

Athena • Cultural Crusader

My favourite painting Geraldine Collinge

Revealing the Roman Cotswolds • The antiquarian Samuel Lysons played an important role in recording the Roman villas of the Cotswolds. Clive Aslet looks at his remarkable career and methods

Harry Brearley and stainless steel

COUNTRY LIFE’S little-known gems of the Cotswolds • For those who prefer not to follow the crowd, Jane Wheatley reveals some of the best, but relatively undiscovered places to eat, drink, stay or simply revel in your surroundings

Dem bones, dem bones • Home to the world’s first named dinosaur, a sleepy Cotswolds village was once a Jurassic Park crawling with crocodiles, discovers Ben Lerwill

A taste of the exotic • Do your eyes deceive you? Not necessarily, says Victoria Marston, as she rounds up the strangest creatures you could (but probably won’t) meet in the British Isles

One bray at a time • With the ability to offer silent, unwavering emotional support, donkeys are stoic and devoted creatures that can boost mental health and melt the hardest of hearts, discovers Katy Birchall

Love in an elevator • Anyone with a fear of being trapped in a lift may wish to look away, warns Melanie Cable-Alexander, as she explores the grandest alternatives to taking the stairs

Kitchen confidential • The latest kitchen ideas and inspiration, selected by Amelia Thorpe

Marking time in the Cotswolds • As the rural property market holds its breath in advance of next month’s Budget, in the Cotswolds, it’s business as usual for a small but realistic group of vendors who are determined to keep calm and carry on

Out of the ordinary • Gloucestershire seems to be the Cotswolds county where things are done a little differently

Where the north wind doth blow • The challenge at this exposed north-Cotswold site was to protect new planting from the elements and provide a garden that three generations of residents could enjoy, explains Tiffany Daneff

Compost conundrums

Kitchen garden cook Pears

Shelling out • Oyster mushrooms are an easily identifiable delicacy, but beneath their delicate exterior lies a carnivorous predator, reveals John Wright

Hear me roar • Leopard print is endlessly in vogue, says Hetty Lintell, who selects some of her favourite feline-inspired accessories

Drink from the royal cup • Steven King falls for the lip-smacking wines of Tokaj in Hungary, the rich nectar that embodies its misty, mountainous home

Quick on the draw • Raphael wouldn’t be Raphael without paper. Now, an Ashmolean Museum project to catalogue and study its collection of the Old Master’s drawings promises to open a window into his restless mind

We band of brothers •...