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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Words grow no flowers
Labour blows for green
Good week for
Bad week for
Literary comfort
Farming’s new dawn
Country Mouse • A new home is where the heart is
Town Mouse • Cake and coffee
COUNTRY LIFE • November 20, 1920
Oh, the agony! • Resident agony uncle Kit Hesketh-Harvey solves your dilemmas
Town & Country Notebook
In the spotlight • Otter (Lutra lutra)
Wines of the week
Letters to the Editor
The last journey home
Special relationships
A feast for the eyes
Pass the butter (knife)
Athena • No place here for damnatio memoriae
The way we were • Photographs from the COUNTRY LIFE archive
Cannock Chase • Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty
Route de Versailles, Louveciennes by Pissarro
Baroque delights • A major restoration project, winner of a Georgian Group award in 2019, has revived a magnificent house inspired by the architecture of Baroque Rome. John Martin Robinson reports
Finding new purpose • The re-use of architectural materials and elements has a long and surprising history that’s all too easy to overlook, as John Goodall explains
Wee three kings • We are all familiar with the diminutive wren, yet its tiny fellow kinglets the goldcrest and firecrest are, perhaps understandably, often overlooked. Ian Morton studies our smallest birds
More avian extremes
Seeing is believing • Exquisitely crafted from hand-dyed silks and velvets, Anne Tomlin’s uncannily realistic flower pieces possess a beauty that will never fade, discovers Natasha Goodfellow
Say yes to the old dress • Our forebears did it out of necessity, but we are returning to their ways out of a desire to preserve the planet for future generations. Claire Jackson investigates the return of our make-do-and-mend mentality
In a fix: top tips for doing it yourself
As good as new: expert menders
Sweet charity: thrift-shop treasures
The winners are... • For the second year, Historic Houses and Country Life joined forces with Neptune to find great examples of new kitchens in old spaces. Last week, John Sims-Hilditch, co-founder of Neptune, announced the joint winners and a runner-up, all of whom have found highly inventive solutions to the challenge of creating a 21st-century kitchen in a listed building
Growing old gracefully • Well-made sofas aren’t only supremely comfortable–they also have the capacity to last for several generations
Decorex 2020
At your convenience • It might be the smallest room in the house and the butt of many a joke, but it is surely one of the most revealing. Bronwen Riley investigates the smartest loos in the land
The best seat in the house
Feeling flush? A history of loos through the ages
Slip into something more comfortable • Hetty Lintell dons her slippers
A work of history • Two homes with substantial stories to tell prepare to hit the market in North Yorkshire and Devon
Looks can be deceiving •...