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.

LONDON'S MOST COLOURFUL CORNER • Orchids 2022, the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, TW9

News

N10 LITTLE BLACK BOOK

There’s gold in them there hills • From Scottish kings to political protest, there’s more to Muswell Hill than its height, finds Carla Passino

THE UPS AND DOWNS

At home in Muswell Hill

The great and the good

E5 Bakehouse • ARCH 396, MENTMORE TERRACE, E8

Seasonal suggestions

A green space • MIDNIGHT APOTHECARY AT THE BRUNEL MUSEUM, RAILWAY AVENUE, SE16

London curiosities • ON THE FACE OF IT

Psst... pass it on

MY PLATE OF VIEW • Fallow, 2, St James’s Market, SW1

February 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

HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT • Many will have wondered what lies behind the huge windows of the Victorian-era studios on one of London’s busiest roads. Rosie Paterson takes a peek

THE CAPITAL ACCORDING TO... Kit Kemp • The designer and hotelier talks to Flora Watkins about art, inspiration and London’s hidden heritage

Miss Daisy Georgina Pilkington • Daisy, who is in her second year reading Psychology at Durham University, is the daughter of Edward and Millie Pilkington of Sherborne, Dorset. She follows in the footsteps of both of her grandmothers, Bridget Chittenden (neé Kimmins) and Georgina Pilkington (neé Gore Browne), who appeared on the Frontispiece on December 12, 1952, and July 27, 1967, respectively.

February fun

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1910s Notebook

A lack of foresight

Proposed Temporary War Shrine in Hyde Park

The fall of European royalty

Lost balls

From the mouths of babes

Where beauteous gems appear

In with the old –and the new

His life through his eyes

Good week for

Bad week for

Preserved for the nation

Into the woods

New home for dormice

Pine martens to the rescue

Why genomics is a pig deal

Country Mouse • Sowing the seeds

Town Mouse • A British bloodsport

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

COUNTRY LIFE February 4, 1922

Town & Country Notebook

In the spotlight • Egyptian goose (Alopochen aegyptiaca)

Wines of the week

House calls

Letters to the Editor

Rabbit, rabbit, rabbit

Cultural Crusader • Planning ahead for a buoyant 2022

The way we were • Photographs from the Country Life archive

My favourite painting Richard Anderson • Charlotte Mullins comments on Portrait of a Man

The Mississippi Truth • Against wilful, pernicious, crafty, pusillanimous lying

The Thirty-Nine Steps

A panoramic life

What they said

Creating the Cambridge college Queens’ College, Cambridge, part I The President and Fellows of Queens’ College • In the first of two articles, John Goodall looks at the early history of the college that helped defined the tradition of academic architecture in Cambridge

Fancy is as fancy does •...