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 Héloise Trafalgar Agnès Archer Hoare

As free as a bird

Country Life

Bad dogs or bad owners?

Waste not, want not

Bring me sunshine

Good week for

Bad week for

The living of the land

Let’s see it through, say farmers

A Dorset heroine

It’s a kind of magic

Here’s looking at you, kid

Country Mouse • Nature s patient secret

Town Mouse • The end of exams

100 years ago in COUNTRY LIFE February 12, 1921

Oh, the agony! • Resident agony uncle Kit Hesketh-Harvey solves your dilemmas

Town & Notebook

Wines of the week

Tying up loose ends

Letters to the Editor

One generation

Aviation and innovation to inspire

The way we were • Photographs from the Country Life archive

My favourite painting Sir Tim Sainsbury • St Jerome in His Study by Antonello da Messina

John McEwen comments on St Jerome in His Study

Life and death in the Age of ‘At Least’ • Numbers cannot convey the truth of humanity

Wisdom, entertainment and bibliomania • By the early 19th century, the library-living room had become an essential element of the country house. John Martin Robinson looks at the development of this space and the wild enthusiasm for books that encouraged it

Life in the slow furrow • For many, including John Lewis-Stempel, a love of old tractors–notably ‘little grey Fergies’–and the way they gently work the land more than makes up for the lack of a cab and an uncomfortable seat

How to buy a vintage (or classic) tractor

All hail snail mail • It may lack the immediacy of email or a text, but the arrival of a handwritten letter has the power to brighten the darkest of days, believes Harry Wallop

Putting pen to paper • Jon McGregor’s top tips for writing the perfect letter

Cut from the country cloth • From the great 18th-century naturalist the Revd Gilbert White to the vicar who bred the first Parson Russell terrier, many members of the clergy have helped to shape the countryside we know today, observes the Revd Fergus Butler-Gallie

Countryside clergy through the ages

The vicars shaping the countryside today

Of Polly washdish and poke pudding • Jaunty little birds with a host of rural nicknames, both the pied wagtail–thought to be a gift from Aphrodite–and the family-minded long-tailed tit were celebrated by John Clare, reveals an admiring Ian Morton

The other pied, long-tailed outsider

Small, but mighty • Strewn over a Niçoise salad, latticed atop a pissaladière or secreted within a sauce, the humble tinned anchovy packs a powerful punch, promises Tom Parker Bowles

Oregano-roasted aubergines with anchovy and chilli sauce

Bright ideas • Interior designers reveal the secrets of successful lighting to Amelia Thorpe

Leading lights • The latest lamps and shades to brighten the days ahead, selected by Amelia Thorpe

Pick of the crop Double pendant lights

Purple reign • Keep calm and collected with February’s birthstone, says Hetty Lintell

First stop Hampshire • With light at the end of the Covid-19 tunnel, this prime...