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 Grace Sharod • Grace, formerly Royal Enclosure manager at Ascot Racecourse, is the daughter of Richard and Jacqueline Sharod of Crowthorne, Berkshire. She is engaged to Mark Banks and they will be married at the Parish and Pilgrimage Church of St Michael and St Mary Magdalene, Easthampstead, Berkshire, in September.

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Leafy wonders

Drawing new lines in the sand

Good week for

Bad week for

More support for farmers needed, say peers

Another chance to speak up

‘We’ve gone on holiday by mistake’

The son also rises

Country Mouse • Doctor’s orders

Town Mouse • An unwilling extra

100 years ago in COUNTRY LIFE February 11, 1922

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

Town & Country Notebook

In the spotlight • Oystercatcher (Haematopus ostralegus)

Wines of the week

Lift hearts and voices

Letters to the Editor

Higher standards

Our damaging addiction to demolition

The we were • Photographs from the Country Life archive

My favourite painting Tarka Russell

Beauty needs vigilance • The Chilterns retains a gentle charm, despite the proximity of motorways and HS2

Nature and food–how to have it all • Caring for the natural environment and food production are not binary activities, says Jamie Blackett, who presents the findings of his research on a thorny subject, the current ‘rewilding’ zeitgeist

St George’s, Bloomsbury

Discovering a genius

What they said

A Gothic revival Queens’ College, Cambridge, part II The President and Fellows of Queens’ College • In the second of two articles, John Goodall looks at the architectural evolution of the college into the late 19th century and its outstanding hall by William Morris and G. F. Bodley

Over the hills and far away • Beatrix Potter transcended a lugubrious childhood to emerge as a highly original writer and illustrator, whose cherished characters–inspired by the Nature around her–have more than stood the test of time, believes Matthew Dennison

Beatrix Potter and ‘Beatrix Potter’

The life and times of Beatrix Potter

Lend me your ear(wig) • Once believed to be adept at entering our ears so as to lay eggs in the brain, sending us mad, no creature was more unfairly condemned by its name than the earwig, laments Ian Morton

Earwigo again

International velvet • First woven in Damascus in the late 7th century, sumptuously sensual velvet has long been a trapping of prestige, indulgence and luxury, says Michael Montagu

The velvet touch

In the red • Hetty Lintell shares the history of Valentine’s Day

brown White cabbage shrimp and

Always eat your greens • Much maligned thanks to the malodorous green sludge served up at school dinners, cabbage should be celebrated for its versatility and enjoyed steamed, then slathered in butter, says Tom Parker Bowles

A light touch • The latest lamps and accessories to brighten any room, selected by Amelia Thorpe

Through the glass starkly • Swamping a...