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 Christine McGowan
Youthful laurels to cheer us all
Country Life
If at first you don’t succeed...
It’s game on
Keeping it in the family
Good week for
Bad week for
Girls aloud
Troubled waters
Beautiful is not always useful
Country Mouse • Back to the future
Town Mouse • A lesson in punctuality
COUNTRY LIFE • September 24, 1921
Oh, the agony! • New agony aunt Mrs Hudson solves your dilemmas
Town & Notebook
In the spotlight • Snow bunting (Plectrophenax nivalis)
Wines of the week
Contact us (photographs welcome)
Letter of the week A lawn legacy
Letters to the Editor
When the music stops
Picturesque landscape is worth recovering
The way we were • Photographs from the Country Life archive
My favourite painting Isabel Ettedgui • Stencilled cave painting by unknown
Vanity Fair
Thackeray vs Dickens
What they said
A Cotswold dream • A medieval house, developed in the 18th century and again by Clough Williams-Ellis in the 1930s answers the popular ideal of a Cotswold home.
Apples and bears • Cider will be forever associated with the Cotswolds thanks to Rosie. Jane Wheatley meets the makers keeping the tradition alive
A taste of the Cotswolds • Sari-wrapped spices, Sichuan pork belly, shrimp brioche rolls and sourdough doughnuts are all on offer at the fine food stores of the Cotswolds, discovers
Tickle your tastebuds
Snakes in the grass • Forever associated with sin, these elongated reptiles are much misunderstood contributors to our ecosystem, believes Annemarie Munro
Sssssay that again
Key looks in kitchens • The latest designs and products to inspire, selected by Amelia Thorpe
Pick of the crop: Delft tiles
Pick of the crop: Pendant lights
The times they are a-changin’ • Through busy centuries and multiple owners, these Cotswold estates have been loved and enhanced
A north Gloucestershire idyll
Small but mighty • Beautiful boltholes in Cotswold villages
The farm shop owner
Don’t get in a tuzzy-muzzy • With a host of charming local names, such as beggars’ buttons, burdock helped to invent Velcro and might also guard against decrepitude, suggests John Wright
Sweet relief • Faint heart never landed fair salmon, as our indefatigable correspondent discovers after a fishless run, which eventually (and thankfully) comes good
Travel News
The globetrotter • Louise Chidgey, co-founder of Brassica Restaurant & Mercantile, Beaminster, Dorset
Pack your bags • Iniala Harbour House, Valletta, Malta
On reflection • Hidden by gentle neglect and revealed by research, the remarkably intact 18th-century garden of Chettle House, Dorset, has been brilliantly reinterpreted by landscape designer Pip Morrison, reveals Christopher Stocks
Squawking points
Horticultural aide-mémoire
Kitchen garden cook Apples
More ways with apples
Cloche encounters • Good news for gardeners: the traditional cast-iron cloche is being made again...