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.

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On the edge of glory

Landowners get the green light

Deeds not words

Good week for

Bad week for

A prince among men

Planting a memory

Music oft hath such a charm

Little wings fluttering

Country Mouse • Wishing you godspeed

Town Mouse • Pampering foxes

100 years ago in COUNTRY LIFE • June 18, 1921

Oh the agony! • New agony aunt Mrs Hudson solves your dilemmas

Book of the week

Town & Country Notebook

Simple suppers • Piri-piri spaghetti

In the spotlight • Common blue butterfly (Polyommatus icarus)

Wines of the week

Letter of the week

Letters to the Editor

Precautionary principles matter

To what purpose: learning or coffee?

The way we were • Photographs from the COUNTRY LIFE archive

My favourite painting Richard Wendorf • Check-out Time at the Marlborough-Blenheim (Alexander Hickson) by Bradley Phillips

The Noah Complex • A visit to Knepp brings on acute conservation anxiety–but also hope

Rosa ‘Gertrude Jekyll’

Life and times: David Austin

More Austin classics

What they said

All ages of England • In the second of two articles on this remarkable country house, John Goodall looks at the history and changing face of the buildings from the Middle Ages to the 19th century

Enter the dragon • Fizzing over water like a fairy aeroplane, the swooping and hovering bejewelled dragonfly is one of the insect success stories of the 21st century–and, as a rule, it won’t bite you, says Jack Watkins

Dragon patrol: six to look out for in your garden

Oh, deer–are they out of control? • With most of our six deer species increasing in range and numbers, Joe Gibbs considers what can be done to bring populations back to more manageable levels

The UK's six species of deer

Travel News

The traveller's tip • James Bell, founder and managing director of Turquoise Holidays

The globetrotter • Pip Durell, founder of With Nothing Underneath

Pack your bags • Lord Crewe Arms, Blanchland, Northumberland

The good stuff Summer party • When planning an event, the little touches make it special, says Hetty Lintell

An English classic • The recent auction of John Evetts’s Wormington Grange collection is the perfect excuse to revisit the unostentatiously beautiful furniture of Georgian great Gillows, says Rufus Bird

Dedicated follower of fashion

The designer's room • The model Kate Moss blended antiques with traditional fittings to lend a comfortable, eclectic feel to her bathroom

Bathtime beauties • Essentials for a luxurious soak, selected by Amelia Thorpe

A sense of place • A forthcoming exhibition at Parham House, West Sussex, demonstrates why decorative art flourishes in a domestic setting

Thoroughly modern mansions • In the 1930s, COUNTRY LIFE found one of these four Home Counties beauties ‘stimulating’ (although Betjeman wasn’t...