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.

Miss Tatiana Hill

Hard cheese

Country Life

Devil’s in the detail

There and back again

Good week for

Bad week for

Friends of the forest

No more waiting in the wings

To the wall

And the winner is…

Country Mouse • The twilight zone

Town Mouse • Living in the presents

100 years ago in COUNTRY LIFE January 14, 1922

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

Town & Country Notebook

In the spotlight • Winter aconite (Eranthis hyemalis)

Wines of the week

Where the gin still flows

Letters to the Editor

Shoots of recovery

Museums as bastions of expertise –or morals?

The way we were • Photographs from the Country Life archive

My favourite painting Virginia Chadwyck-Healey • Whispers of My Past by Christabel Blackburn

Scoop

Early Waugh

What they said

To be a pilgrim • The route from Tewkesbury Abbey to Gloucester Cathedral helps assuage grief

Poetry in motion • Praised for ‘masterfully employing rhythm, breath and texture’, a vivid recollection of childhood on a Cumbrian farm has won the COUNTRY LIFE poetry competition, reveals Tim Relf

With Eyes Closed by Duncan Darbishire

Judges' comments

Little England • Lost villages, factory villages, tourist villages, Georgian villages: these pieces of England all have their own story to tell. Archaeologist Ben Robinson chooses his top 10

Parrot fever

Polly wants an apple • Ring-necked parakeets have made themselves at home across London and beyond, but how did these birds come to swap tropical climes for our grey shores, asks Claire Jackson

Loved back to life • Fulbeck House, Lincolnshire The home of Claire Van Cleave This little-known house of about 1700 has been the subject of tactful restoration for a period of more than 20 years. Jeremy Musson looks at its fascinating history

Let’s hear it for mighty mutton • Despite a less than salubrious past and, thanks to Shakespeare, its association with women of loose morals, mutton should be celebrated as a magnificent meat, proclaims Tom Parker Bowles

The designer's room • Although it was designed to professional standards, this kitchen fits perfectly into a family home

New looks for a new year • The latest from the world of decorating and design, selected by Amelia Thorpe

Thank-you letters • Put it in writing, encourages Hetty Lintell with this edit of some pretty initialled jewellery

Lands of plenty • From £2 million to £20 million properties, 2021 was a stellar year for sales of farms and estates

Something old, something new • Unusual architectural features are having a revival, finds Lucy Denton, from medieval moats to ice houses

White magic • Nowhere else can gardeners see rare named snowdrops growing in such measureless drifts as in the Rothschilds’ private garden at Eythrope in Buckinghamshire, finds Mary Keen

Where to buy rare snowdrops

The sun is shining in Andalusia

Horticultural aide-mémoire Feed the birds

The Queen’s lost library • New research...