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.

THE STAGE IS SET • Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre, NW1

Plenty to see here

Plate up

Where to buy in 2022

January at a glance • We’re all guilty of ignoring what’s on our doorstep, so we’ve made it easier for you. Here’s what’s happening this month

NW9 LITTLE BLACK BOOK

If you go down to the woods today • Carla Passino traces St John’s Wood history from rural backwater and London’s first garden suburb to music mecca

At home in St John’s Wood

The great and the good

Evelyn’s Table, 28, Rupert Street, W1

LET'S START AT THE VERY BEGINNING • The first issue of COUNTRY LIFE was published 125 years ago. Former Editor Clive Aslet takes a look at what was happening in London at the same time

Gordon Ker • The founder of Blacklock talks to Harry McKinley about making the most of London with a newborn and his favourite restaurants

Lady Eliza Manners

Let’s celebrate

Country Life

1900s Notebook

Animal friends and fells

Women of the future

An exciting new Guest Editor

Country Mouse • Just say yes

Town Mouse • The art of doing nothing

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

100 years ago in COUNTRY LIFE January 7, 1922

Town & Country Notebook

Sparrowhawk (Accipiter nisus)

Wines of the week

It’s behind you!

Letters to the Editor

The New Year honours

A new face at the National Trust

The way we were Photographs from the COUNTRY LIFE archive

The Wall by Anwar Jalal Shemza

Wonder as you wander • Playlist for the apocalypse

The Crown Jewels

What they said

The Col Blood affair

In search of beauty • A publisher, innovator and shrewd businessman with strong connections to the Liberal political establishment, Edward Hudson was the visionary founder of COUNTRY LIFE 125 years ago. Clive Aslet revisits his remarkable life

A digital treasure trove • A hugely ambitious initiative to digitise the contents of the COUNTRY LIFE photographic archive during the magazine’s 125th anniversary year promises to make its riches properly accessible to everyone for the first time. John Goodall reports

A tale of two crowns

The architectural conscience of the nation • Michael Hall, a former Architectural Editor and Deputy Editor of COUNTRY LIFE, looks back at the magazine’s formation of its architectural coverage from 1897 to 1939

A genteel gatehouse • A 13th-century fortification that defined medieval Ludlow has been transformed into a Georgian townhouse. John Goodall examines its remarkable story and restoration

The designer's room • A striking copper bath and classically inspired joinery have brought this bathroom to life

Soak in style • Ideas and inspiration for a stylish bathroom, selected by Amelia Thorpe

Through the mists of time • A history of the past 125 years can be read in COUNTRY LIFE’s thousands upon thousands of property advertisements. Annunciata Elwes dives in

A garden of the imagination • Timothy Mowl celebrates what may be the most atmospheric, the most beautiful and the most...