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.
FLY AWAY • Where to go to escape the cold
International news
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Pirates of the Caribbean • From cunning buccaneer Henry Morgan to swashbuckling Black Bart, Carla Passino retraces the history of the region’s most notorious seamen
Live in the Caribbean
Fit for a king • Palaces around the world epitomise their countries’ varied architectural styles. Arabella Youens is enchanted
Also worth a visit
Licence to thrill • The ‘James Bond’ franchise is as famous for its glamorous settings as for its rip-roaring adventures. Inspired by No Time to Die, Antonia Windsor explores the best 007 film locations across the world
Bond at home
The Englishman’s wine • Charles Metcalfe traces the history of Port and explores the area in which it’s made
Three Ports to try
White-hot destinations • Whether you’d rather take to the slopes or relax by the pool, Holly Kirkwood has the pick of autumn and winter escapes across the world
A bridge across worlds • Dr Helene von Bismarck describes her international life and the many perspectives it gives her
Dr Mya-Rose Craig
Why craft matters
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Windows of opportunity
Un pour tous, tous pour un
Don’t fly away
For the hell of it
Good week for
Bad week for
Back to the future
Land ahoy!
Mouse • Left out in the cold
Town Mouse • Rising prices
100 years ago in COUNTRY LIFE October 15, 1921
Oh, the agony! • New agony aunt Mrs Hudson solves dilemmas
Town & Notebook
Brent goose (Branta bernicla)
Wines of the week
Letters to the Editor
What’s said and what’s done
Pig in the middle
Next stop, John Lewis
Lead on, Ladybird
Putting our rural heritage at risk
The way we were • Photographs from the Country Life archive
My favourite painting Phillipa Lepley • The Rehearsal by Edgar Degas
John McEwen comments on The Rehearsal
Rus in urbe • Edinburgh is seen in a new light
On the record
The man who turned the tide • The first and last member of Enterprise Neptune on mapping the British coast
‘A very faire house’ • St Fagans National Museum of History, Cardiff, part I An impressive Elizabethan house is at the heart of the Welsh national collections of history and archaeology at St Fagans, as David Robinson explains in the first of two articles
Give us a clue • Can you explain what hair ice, cramp balls and pillow mounds are? If not, don’t worry–naturalist John Wright has all the answers to our most unusual countryside mysteries
Wild for magic mushrooms • No, not the fungi that inspire hallucinations, cautions Tom Parker Bowles, but do take the time to seek out divine-tasting ceps and chanterelles on the forest floor
The lay of the land • As people moved into towns, they wanted peaceful depictions of rural life on their parlour walls, leading artists to look at farming through sepia-tinted spectacles, says Susan Owens
Windows into the past
Sissinghurst Castle Garden
Vita and Virginia
Easy does it •...