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.

LONDON LIFE • Your indispensable guide to the capital

Seasonal suggestions

Here’s looking at London's department stores

The great and the good

Mei Mei, Borough Market, SE1

January at a glance • We’re all guilty of ignoring what’s on our doorstep, so we’ve made it easier for you. Here’s what’s happening this month

SW13 LITTLE BLACK BOOK

London’s green and pleasant land • Barnes has always been at the forefront of history–from its involvement in the execution of Mary Queen of Scots to the opening of the world-famous Olympic Studios, where Queen and David Bowie recorded tracks alongside each other–finds Carla Passino

At home in Barnes

THE UPS AND DOWNS

TWO WHEELS GOOD, FOUR WHEELS BAD • James Fisher dons his lycra and screws his courage to the pedals to try out an e-bike on the busy streets of his home town

BEST OF THE REST: FULLY CHARGED RECOMMENDS AN E-BIKE FOR EVERY OCCASION

Don’t try this at home • The five-day office week is a thing of the past. Emma Hughes rounds up the best places to work from, beyond the kitchen table

Nicholas Coleridge • Teresa Levonian Cole talks to the chairman of the V&A Museum, the former editorial director of Condé Nast Britain, about electric scooters and living in SW

Miss Natalie Fée

Lessons for 2021

Country Life

To capture those who save

Breaking the ice

Country Mouse • Walk this way

Town Mouse • We made it, just

100 years ago in COUNTRY LIFE January 8, 1921

Town & Country Notebook

Wines of the week

Contact us (photographs welcome)

Letters to the Editor

Bring on 2021

Athena • Cultural Crusader

The way we were • Photographs from the COUNTRY LIFE archive

John McEwen comments on The Feast in the House of Levi

Looking forward, looking back • In the first of a new monthly series, Amy Jeffs reflects on the medieval pastime of January: feasting with family and friends

A charming anomaly Rosebery House, Midlothian The home of Lord Dalmeny • A late-Georgian shooting lodge became the favoured retreat of the Victorian Prime Minister, Lord Rosebery. It escaped ambitious remodelling at his hands and has recently been the object of sympathetic restoration, as John Martin Robinson reports

You’ll never walk alone • Grafham Water is alive with human and avian company

The lands that time forgot • Britain is full of hidden treasures, from haunted forests to flower-filled meadows, secret stone circles and saintly volcanoes. Annunciata Elwes tours 50 lesser-known treasures of this country to tick off in 2021

Wishful thinking for 2021 • Interior-design predictions for the year ahead

Given the green light • A new-found love for space, quiet and Nature is driving growth in the prime countryside market

A blisteringly good border • Aston Pottery, Oxfordshire Every single one of the 5,000 plants in this 200ft-long annual bed has been sown and raised from seed. Val Bourne discovers the secrets behind this astonishing achievement

Favourite Aston annuals

Three cheers for British spuds

Horticultural aide memoire •...