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.

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We shall all be changed

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Country Life

Bloomin’ lovely

New growth

Badminton is back

It takes more than two

Good week for

Bad week for

Nature’s train of thought

Take a seat

The conflict’s effect on culture

Country Mouse • Share and share alike

Town Mouse • Uniform crisis

COUNTRY LIFE • March 18, 1922

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

Town & Country Notebook

In the spotlight • Wood anemone (Anemone nemorosa)

Wines of the week

Nothing very bad could happen to you there

Letters to the Editor

The farmer’s lot is a lonely one

Aiming away from history and culture

The way we were • Photographs from the COUNTRY LIFE archive

Charlotte Mullins comments on Gulf Women Prepare for War

Calf love and birthing pains • The calm of the calving shed belies the turbulence of the world outside

South

An Heroic Age

What they said

Agricultural improvement • Georgian farmhouses are an easily overlooked architectural marvel of Britain’s agricultural revolution in the 18th century. John Martin Robinson reveals the interest and importance of these buildings

To boldly go where no man has gone before • Whether attempting to conquer Everest wearing pullovers or de-icing the engines of a moving plane with a knife, we’ve long tested human endurance to the limit, says Charles Harris

Women on a mission

Castles on the hill • Not always found on hills and not necessarily forts, our thousands of ancient hill forts contain sacrificial burial grounds, buried treasures and a certain strange magic, finds Vicky Liddell

Fantastic forts to visit

How your garden can heal you • Rather than battling the native ‘weeds’ in our gardens, we might be better served appreciating their raw beauty and exploring their beneficial properties, as apothecarist Becky Cole explains to Catriona Gray

Kitchen garden cook Spinach

More ways with Spinach

Turn up the heat • Furniture, cabinetry and accessories to spice up your kitchen, selected by Amelia Thorpe

Pick of the • Boiling-water taps

Pick of the crop • Cupboard

Pick of the crop Jugs

Party like it’s 2019 • After two years of social distancing, the party is back with a vengeance. But some traditions have changed–and others are being revived, finds Rupert Uloth

The new black tie • Standard-issue black tie might still fit the bill for awards dinners and rugby-club shindigs, but, elsewhere, a new generation of men is becoming more creative when it comes to dressing up, finds Arabella Youens

The time of my life • Sociable souls tell Eleanor Doughty the secret of a memorable party

Party in pink • Make a pop in the prettiest of colours, says Hetty Lintell

Be seen in green • It is easy being green, encourages Hetty Lintell

The party notebook

Party barometer

News

The globetrotter • Nina Brooke, artist and founder of Joy Editions

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