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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Country Life

Strikes and secrets • Did you know…

Town & Country

Good week for

Bad week for

Looking good on paper

Share the view with sheep

Country Mouse • Snakes in the grass

Town Mouse • A keen appetite

COUNTRY LIFE • August 13, 1921

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

Town & Country Notebook

In the spotlight • Pied flycatcher (Ficedula hypoleuca)

Wines of the week

Brick by brick

Letters to the Editor

Hard labour

The bees will keep you in business

The way we were • Photographs from the Country Life archive

My Favourite Painting Andrew Love • Roundabout by Roy Petley

Terms of endearment • The dog days of a long, hard summer

Noises Off

A man of parts

What they said

Come to the point • For lovers of traditional sport and skilled dog-work, the spectacle of pursuing grouse over pointers and setters is hypnotic and exhilarating, says Jonathan Young

Where to shoot grouse over pointers and setters

The Athenian revolution • To celebrate the 200th anniversary of the completion of St Pancras Church, Harry Mount considers the early-19th-century enthusiasm for Greek architecture and its impact on buildings across the British Isles.

Taking the waters • For Georgian landowners, a mineral-laced spring could mean a profitable resort, even if the water was rusty orange–and our spa towns remain a tonic today, says Clive Aslet

A day at the spa

An open-and-shut case • When it comes to sash windows, are you a purist or a pragmatist? Eleanor Doughty examines the argument for both options

In the frame • Everything you need for beautiful windows, selected by Amelia Thorpe

I’ll be by the pool • Practical needn’t mean sacrificing style, says Hetty Lintell

Feeling hot, hot, hot • Drawn into the chilli’s fiery embrace at a young age–when sneaking a sip of his father’s Tabasco-laden Bloody Mary– Tom Parker Bowles is addicted to the fruit with a sting in its tail

Time to try defying gravity • Thomas the Tank Engine, van Gogh’s head, a pair of Levi’s and a Tyrannosaurus Rex: Cameron Balloons has made them all fly in the form of hot-air balloons, finds Julie Harding

Up, up and away: ballooning through the ages

Grace and space • Three Kent properties show off the best that the Garden of England has to offer

Never say never • What resources are needed to save a country house on the brink? Lucy Denton investigates

A restorer's checklist

campers

Finding echoes of the past in the present • Tilly Ware visits the historic gardens of Elton Hall, Huntingdonshire, where much of the distant past remains a mystery, but which, after four decades of care and attention, have been brilliantly transformed

Tulip fever

Horticultural aide-mémoire • Harvest shallots

Great Scott! • He was the inventor of the historical novel and Scotland’s answer to Shakespeare, so why, 250...