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 Taj Atwal

Taking jokes seriously

Country Life

Singing for their supper

Vexing Wagner

Spot the toad

Good week for

Bad week for

On the wing

Witness Adam’s creation

Walk on the wild side

Classic good looks

A tide in the affairs of Mr Men

Leopards and spots

Counting the days

COUNTRY LIFE • March 12, 1921

Town & Country Notebook

Wines of the week

Egalitarian delights

Letters to the Editor

A Budget for breathing space

A triumph of mutual accord

The way we were Photographs from the Country Life archive

The Choice Between Virtue and Vice by Paolo Veronese • John McEwen comments on The Choice Between Virtue and Vice

Paris was yesterday • And London, New York, San Francisco, Venice…

Thelwell: more than a one-trick pony • Sixty years after Penelope and Kipper rode into our lives, Alice Wright explores Norman Thelwell’s expert touch in capturing all aspects of country life

A Thelwell in every corner

Improving on history • Beckside House, Lancashire The home of Dr John Martin Robinson A beautifully preserved Georgian house reveals the influence of pattern books in the practice of English architecture. John Goodall admires its revival and the addition to it of two well-judged new wings

How safe is that doggy in the garden? • The ‘low-risk, high-reward’ crime of dog snatching has increased dramatically in recent months, reports Katy Birchall. How do you protect your pet–or get them back if the worst happens?

If your dog is stolen

How to protect your dog

‘I hoped to make Archie “too hot to handle”'

The female of the species • They may be championed by Sir David Attenborough now, but the first women entomologists had to overcome great prejudice to study insects, reports Ian Morton

The mark of a man

Let them make furniture • Once the height of fashion among collectors, including George IV, pieces by Marie-Antoinette’s favourite cabinetmaker Jean-Henri Riesener are back in the spotlight, reports Rufus Bird

The Riesener Project

It’s simply pure racing • The Cheltenham Festival will be a strangely silent affair, with no Guinness, no Irish punters and no amateurs, but that won’t detract from the quality of racing, which is set to be as illustrious as ever, says Marcus Armytage

Will it be Boum time?

Blooming marvellous • This Mothering Sunday, Hetty Lintell is full of the joys of spring

Rhubarb and rosewater compote with shortbread

Pretty in pink • Only available for a fleeting moment, rose-hued forced rhubarb–grown in the dark and harvested by candlelight in Yorkshire’s ‘tusky triangle’–is an ephemeral vegetable with a muted, yet distinct, lip-smacking tartness, says Tom Parker Bowles

Simply add sparkle • Forget everything you thought you knew about non-alcoholic drinks and open a bottle of kombucha, advises Emma Hughes

Alcohol alternatives

Sussex secrets • A manor and a villa on the site of a lost mill are two examples of the fine country houses in this home county

One of Britain's oldest houses for...