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.

Time for tea

Renting in the golden years • From stylish central-London developments to scenic country villages, there are plenty of luxurious options for the over-55s to choose from

From village to fork

GP on call

Mrs Max Davies • Katie is an equestrian and portrait artist who works in a variety of mediums. She is the daughter of Julie Dunn of Speen, Buckinghamshire.

Drop the lead weight

Country Life

How to make them see the light?

100 and counting

Kill or cure?

Farewell, friend

Good week for

Bad week for

Watch the birdie

A princely pursuit

La dolce vita

Beware a Church bearing gifts

Country Mouse • Barking at the moon

Town Mouse • Dressing for winter

100 years ago in COUNTRY LIFE • January 28, 1922

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

Town & Country Notebook

In the spotlight • White and black squirrels

Wines of the week

Slip into something more comfortable

Contact us (photographs welcome)

Letters to the Editor

Stuck in the wilderness

The Blue Boy: a window on history

The way we were Photographs from the Country Life archive

My favourite painting Mick Channon

Painter to the nation

What they said

Physical Energy

The women shaping a new countryside • Throughout history, formidable women such as Cleopatra and Lady Eve Balfour did much to nurture the land. Camilla Akers-Douglas talks to four present-day matriarchs who are helping to boost the rural economy in very different ways

Plaster of paradise • Downton Hall, Shropshire The home of Mr and Mrs Mark Wiggin Recent restoration and revival offers the perfect opportunity for a reappraisal of this house and its magnificent plasterwork interiors.

Everybody say cheese • The millennia-long tradition of cheesemaking in Britain and Ireland, having weathered many storms, is as vigorous as ever thanks to the great cheese renaissance. Ned Palmer takes a dairy-driven tour

Not such a Scilly idea • Beloved by The Prince of Wales, who shares his Scottish home with them, and thriving on Tresco and Arran–where they supposedly arrived in a laundry basket–red squirrels have a particular penchant for island life, says Robin Page

Islands in the red-squirrel stream

The designer's room • Interior designer Sarah Fortescue has transformed the drawing room of a house on her family’s Cornish estate with colour and pattern

In the making: Eym candles • ‘The difference between natural and synthetic is like comparing a pine-scented air freshener with walking through a pine forest’

Luxury Notebook • Vitamin D supports bone health and mood, so get outside for a long walk-experts say morning is best

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