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.

WHATS ON IN LONDON • The theatre, exhibitions, comedy shows and live music are all back. COUNTRY LIFE rounds up the best things to do in the capital

LONDON LIFE

BEST IN SHOW • A side effect of the pandemic has been a rise in interest for country living, but with theatres, exhibition venues and restaurants fully re-opened, London is exerting its appeal. Carla Passino has the pick of the best areas to live

LOCAL HEROES • Reliable, familiar, affordable: everyone needs an excellent neighbourhood restaurant right now–and they need us. Emma Hughes picks her favourites

Changing times • A lot has altered in the past 18 months and plenty for the better. Jo Rodgers looks at life before and after lockdown in London

STRICTLY BALLROOM • 90 years after it first opened, the ballroom at Claridge’s hotel has been restored to its former Art Deco glory. Jo Rodgers takes to the dance floor

Petroc Trelawny • The Radio 3 Breakfast presenter talks to Flora Watkins about living in Primrose Hill and his favourite post-Proms tipple

Miss Emma Griffin

Keep calm and carry on

Country Life

Dawn of the gene cuisine

Help from above

Good week for

Bad week for

Only trains and horses

The many faces of Christ

Nesting instinct

Lobby for trail hunting

Holding out for a hero

Country Mouse • Mud, not so glorious mud

Town Mouse • And is it true?

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

100 years ago in COUNTRY LIFE October 8, 1921

Town & Country Notebook

In the spotlight • European hornet (Vespa crabro)

Wines of the week

You’ve got to sweep a chimney or two

Letters to the Editor

Call to action

Renewal by conservation, not clearance

The way we were • Photographs from the Country Life archive

My favourite painting The Marchioness of Northampton

The sunny side of the street • The art of lightening up

The Winslow Boy

Pleasing Aunt Edna

What they said

Saluting the Georgian spirit • The Georgian Group’s 2021 Architectural Awards, sponsored by Savills, attracted a remarkably strong field. We reveal the winners, as chosen by a panel of judges chaired by COUNTRY LIFE’s Architectural Editor, John Goodall

On the record • A Biographical Dictionary of English Architecture 1540–1640 is published by the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art (£40)

Keeper of the architectural flame • The eminent country-house historian celebrates his 90th birthday

A shrine to Shakespeare • Theatre Royal Drury Lane, Covent Garden, London WC2 The completion of a major restoration campaign has returned one of the most complete Regency interiors in London to its full glory. Simon Thurley, who advised on the project, reports

More poetry, please • As we launch the COUNTRY LIFE competition to find the best Nature-themed poem, Tim Relf celebrates our countryside poets and the locations that inspired them to write such evocative verse

Three tips for aspiring poets

How to enter the COUNTRY LIFE poetry competition

New looks for autumn • The...