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.

THE COLLECTION OF MRS HENRY FORD II • Is this London’s most exciting upcoming auction sale?

LONDON LIFE News

COUNTRY LIFE

Affairs of the heart • Romance–as well as scientific and artistic endeavour–was synonymous with Mayfair long before Bridgerton appeared on our screens, discovers Carla Passino

THE UPS AND DOWNS

At home in Mayfair

Chloe Alberry • PORTOBELLO ROAD, W11

The great and the good

March 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

LIFE'S A BOARD GAME • A Monopoly board is often a player’s first introduction to the capital, but those neat, rainbow-coloured sites belie a more complicated history, discovers Sebastian Deckker

Philip Mould • Teresa Levonian Cole talks to the art dealer, author and TV presenter about cherry trees and learning to live without a gallery in lockdown

Miss Alice Smith

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Thank you for the music

Town & Country

Good week for

Bad week for

Country Mouse • The toad capital of Hampshire

Town Mouse • Who dares trim

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

100 years ago in COUNTRY LIFE March 5, 1921

Town & Country Notebook

Wines of the week

Letters to the Editor

All together now

Contact us (photographs welcome)

A load of hot air

A fragrant firestarter

Fit for a duke

The best things in the worst times

The way we were • Photographs from the COUNTRY LIFE archive

My favourite painting Benedict Foley • Mill Building, Boxted by John Nash

Time to dig deep • March was made for turning the soil in readiness for spring, reflects Amy Jeffs

On the record • The Rt Hon George Eustice was elected MP for Camborne and Redruth in 2010 and appointed Defra Secretary of State in 2020

A minister for all seasons • The Defra Secretary on badgers, Brexit and other burning topics

Circles of life • Shrouded in mystery and once believed to replenish themselves magically at night from condensation in the air, spherical dew ponds are often manmade and fed by rainfall, explains Simon Lester

Dig me a dew pond

Chasing the dragon • A route around the ancient Avebury landscape tracks an 18th-century polymath

A Kerr-handed castle Ferniehirst Castle, Roxburghshire A seat of Lord Ralph Kerr • Rebuilt in 1598, this delightful Borders castle, built for left-handed people, was revived by bursts of sensitive restoration, as John Martin Robinson explains

The painting’s on the wall • Once practised by Michelangelo, Raphael and da Vinci, the art of fresco creation has changed little in 1,000 years. Marsha O’Mahony meets the artists following in their footsteps

Origins of an art form

Taking it on the chin • From how to wear red trousers with aplomb to always ‘going to the loo’, The Chin Dictionary is a self-deprecating and witty guide to being ‘posh’, observes Joe Gibbs

Keep your chin up: a dip into that...