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 Louisa North

Hearken to the Arts

Country Life

Many happy returns

A spot of archival excavation

Flea in the ointment

Good week for

Bad week for

The battle of Trafalgar (Square)

The slowest race on Earth

A grave issue

School of thought

Mouse • Set in stone

Town Mouse • An enticement to walk

100 years ago in COUNTRY LIFE February 26, 1921

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

Town & Country Notebook

In the spotlight • Jay (Garrulus glandarius)

Wines of the week

Judging a letter by its cover

Contact us (photographs welcome)

Letters to the Editor

Silence is golden

Athena • Stopping the holes below the waterline

The way we were Photographs from the Country Life archive

Gyles Brandreth • John McEwen comments on Portrait of Sarah Bernhardt

The man who loved drawing, dogs and dragons • Best known for designing the First World War ‘Your country needs you’ recruitment poster, Alfred Leete was also adept at capturing canines–as well as Bertie Wooster–in pen and ink, says Nicholas Hodge

Alfred Leete's life in pictures

In the right frame of mind • Designed to protect and enhance a picture, an elaborate frame is often a work of art in its own right. Catriona Gray discovers how red-coloured clay makes gold leaf glow and why mounts are not always needed

Square one: know your framing terms

The immortal journey of Dürer • Forget Leonardo: there is a case to be made for the German artist being the true Renaissance great, argues Michael Prodger

Agnes’s story

Life and times of Dürer

See the blackthorn swim in snow • Bedecked with thorns so spiky it’s known as Nature’s barbed wire, the blackthorn’s delicate, starry-white flowers are also an often unreliable harbinger of spring, observes Jack Watkins

Back to blackthorn

To dye for • Cast-offs from your kitchen and vegetable garden can be used to create natural dyes in a rainbow of colours, reveals Maggie Chaplin

When winter came back • After working up a sweat and casting off clothes mending a fence, John Lewis-Stempel wishes he’d taken more notice of a kestrel hovering in the face of the wind when the heavens unleash a savage squall of icy sleet on a bitter February day

In the making

Luxury News

Luxury under £20

High 5 • Italy, bottled. If we can't get there, let's transport ourselves at home

Alice Fox-Pitt • A former event rider and amateur jockey-turned-ITV Racing correspondent, Alice will be supporting husband and fellow eventer William in the lead-up to the Tokyo Olympics via the Fox-Pitt Equestrian YouTube channel. The only woman to have completed both Badminton Horse Trials and Aintree Foxhunters’, she and William live in Dorset with four children and a menagerie of animals.

Climb every mountain

Fit for purpose • In the fourth in aseries of architecture and design masterclasses, COUNTRY LIFE'S Executive Editor, Giles Kime, discusses with Janine Stone how gyms, yoga studios and swimming pools create a home that...