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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Town & Country

Good week for

Bad week for

Country Mouse • What’s the time?

Town Mouse • A lethal dose

100 years ago in COUNTRY LIFE • July 2, 1921

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

Book of the week

A novel note

Town & Country Notebook

Simple suppers • Garden-pea fritters

In the spotlight • Herring gull (Larus argentatus)

Wines of the week

A kiss from a rose

Letters to the Editor

Where is the plan?

Athena Cultural Crusader • Time to celebrate Coventry’s culture

The way we were • Photographs from the COUNTRY LIFE archive

My favourite painting Adam Clayton • Phil Spector: Without Wig by Marlene Dumas

St Paul’s Cathedral

Wren the polymath

What they said

The Ulster acropolis • In the second of two articles marking the centenary of the establishment of the Northern Ireland Parliament, John Goodall looks at the Art Deco seat created to accommodate it

The goat with a GSOH • We’re not kidding–the delightful and versatile English goat is making a deserved comeback, as Julie Harding learns from devotees

Seven reasons for keeping English goats

Slobber, puddle, chewing and trouble • Inspired by COUNTRY LIFE’s search for Britain’s naughtiest dog, illustrator John Holder tells Katy Birchall why he’s dedicated a delightful new book to mischievous mutts

A bolt from the blue • Once considered so sacred that Druids consecrated their weapons with its starflower petals before battle, borage deserves greater regard, says Ian Morton

Two sides of viper's bugloss

Rain, rain, please don’t go away • Unlike George II, who was not a fan of the wet British summer, John Lewis-Stempel is delighted by an early-June morning deluge on the lush lawn

The cult of the continuation car • Time travel is afoot in England’s storied car factories, which are revisiting their greatest hits. But are these remakes the real deal, asks Adam Hay-Nicholls

The jury's out

Ship shape and Chelsea fashion • Bluebird of Chelsea is no ordinary motor yacht. Built for record breaker Sir Malcolm Campbell and requisitioned for Dunkirk, her story is one of survival against the odds. In her 90th year, her interiors have been given a new lease of life, finds Arabella Youens

In the making Babble & Hemp

Luxury News

High 5 • Sunday, June 27 was National Sunglasses Day, so let's celebrate protecting those retinas in style

A few of my favourite things • The Cheshire-born millinery master burst on to the London fashion scene in the 1970s and became famous for avant-garde headgear, favoured by the biggest names of the time–from Boy George and Mick Jagger to Diana, Princess of Wales. Headline-grabbing hats have appeared throughout his career and, in 2009, he curated the V&A exhibition ‘Hats, an Anthology by Stephen Jones’, which broke world attendance records. He was awarded an OBE for services to fashion in 2010 and still has a boutique and design studio in...