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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News

Under the Italian sun • Mary Miers considers how the country that fascinated J. M. W. Turner from youth shaped his artistic vision

The sound of spring • Carla Passino follows chirruping birds, croaking frogs and rushing waterfalls to enjoy the new season across Europe

Peer review • Two lords and one lady share their most enjoyable experiences abroad with Eleanor Doughty

Glass half full • Swap your lukewarm party pitcher for one of these Continental aperitifs, says Emma Hughes

Home in one • From golf to boating, a Mediterranean property is a perfect base to have fun, believes Toby Keel

At home in the world • British artist Aimee del Valle reveals why she loves French village life

Miss Charlotte Harris and Miss Jessica Oliver

Spring: the best present

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Countryside mobilises for Ukraine

Peak time for birds

Change is ahoof

Free-range eggs off the menu

Good week for

Bad week for

Communities rally for a pint

Defra dismisses flawed badger-cull study

Opera en plein air

Country Mouse • Trouble in paradise

Town Mouse • Not ageing visibly

100 years ago in COUNTRY LIFE • April 1, 1922

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

Town & Country Notebook

In the spotlight • Goosander (Mergus merganser)

Wines of the week

Letter of the week

Letters to the Editor

Leave them on the shelf

The myriad delights of a church crawl

The way we were • Photographs from the Country Life archive

Portrait of Dido Elizabeth Belle Lindsay and her cousin Lady Elizabeth Murray by David Martin • Charlotte Mullins comments on Portrait of Dido Elizabeth Belle

An Inspector Calls

A Bradford boy

What they said

Something to crow about • Clever, companionable and mischievous, the crow or corvid family of birds has long loomed large in our lives and imaginations, as symbols of death and crop destroyers. But, contends Simon Lester, they’re not all black-hearted scoundrels

Stone the crows: corvids in myth and legend • • ‘Four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie’ actually referred to rook pie

A hunting hall Auckland Castle, Co Durham A property of The Auckland Project • After a major restoration programme and large-scale archaeological investigation, this former palace of the Bishops of Durham has been re-opened to the public.

‘I have finally moved into song’ • Best known as the creative force behind Dicky and Daffy, it was her son’s death that prompted Annie Tempest to learn ‘the grammar of the sculptor’s language’, discovers Ian Collins

Like quicksilver: the sculpture of Annie Tempest

In the making Bennett Winch • ‘We are obsessed with getting it right, utterly separate from fashion or trends, focused on absolute quality,’ Rupert Shreeve, design director

Luxury Notebook

High Five • Scalloped accessories

A few of my favourite things • Lorenzo Bruno Nero Dallaglio, known as Lawrence, is a former captain...