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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We’d miss this meadow
Express yourself
Happy hedges
A very fine innings
Good week for
Bad week for
Horses of another colour
Slow and steady wins the race
On the subject of tortoises...
Country Mouse • Forrard on
Town Mouse • A happy omen
COUNTRY LIFE • July 30, 1921
Oh the agony! • New agony aunt Mrs Hudson solves your dilemmas
Town & Country Notebook
Puffin (Fratercula arctica)
Wines of the week
I am a passenger
Letters to the Editor
Life on the veg
A tragedy for historic Liverpool–and Britain
The way we were Photographs from the COUNTRY LIFE archive
My favourite painting Edie Campbell • Blessed are those who mourn (Breonna Breonna)
A Canterbury Tale
What they said
A controversial pair
On the record • Light Perpetual by Francis Spufford is published by Faber & Faber
I may be some time • The author on early sadness and late-blooming fiction-writing success
On the wings of love • Once oblivious to butterflies, Robin Page became so entranced by their delicate beauty that he embarked on a year-long safari to tick every British species–as well as some foreign visitors–off his list
Robin's butterfly calendar
A fritillary by any other name: the realities of a butterfly safari
‘And for that minute a blackbird sang’ • The words of Edward Thomas deftly captured the special places and views close to his heart. Nick Denton walks in the country poet’s footsteps
What a relief • Generations have sworn by dock leaves to take the sting out of a brush with nettles, even if modern medicine disagrees, says Ian Morton
In the dock
As happy as a farmer in muck • Poo-picking on a sultry July morning is a pleasure and a pain for John Lewis-Stempel, as he marvels at the host of insects that delight in dung
It’s all going south • Our fishing correspondent ventures to England for a series of forays on venerable chalkstreams, where he bags a few brown trout and a lot of nostalgia
The problem with house building... • Housing development is conditioned by concerns that have nothing to do with creating attractive or sustainable places to live. Clive Aslet explains this scandalous situation and suggests what we might be able to do about it
A question of style • When building a new house, the biggest choice is between classic and contemporary. Eleanor Doughty talks to the owners of newly built houses and finds that the answer lies in combining the best of both
From the architects' mouths
Far from the madding crowd • Inspired by simple Scottish and Swedish structures in remote locations, Annie and Lachlan Stewart have created an ‘instant’ hideaway, finds Amelia Thorpe
In the making
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High 5 • Make a splash for summer
A few of my favourite things • The journalist and broadcaster presented the BBC game show The Weakest Link in the UK and America for 12...