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 Zenouska Mowatt

Keeping the faith

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Town & Country

Always look on the bright side

A musical week

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

100 years ago in COUNTRY LIFE May 13, 1922

A Novel Note

Town & Country Notebook

Wines of the week

Letters to the Editor

The gay community and the country house

A time for allies

The sound of summer

Upping sticks

Looking back… and to the future

The way we were • Photographs from the COUNTRY LIFE archive

Charlotte Mullins comments on Peeled Lemons

A countrywoman’s notes • Stacks of tough hope and steadfast endurance

COUNTRY LIFE 1897–2022

Seeing the best in Britain • In this anniversary issue, Simon Jenkins considers what COUNTRY LIFE does each week and why it matters so much.

Loyal toasts • Friends of COUNTRY LIFE tell Katy Birchall why they enjoy the magazine, from the riddle to rare breeds, fine architecture to Tottering-by-Gently

A front-row seat • COUNTRY LIFE has been commenting on the state of the nation for 125 years. Sometimes, the past seems wholly removed, but there are moments when it all seems startlingly familiar

The Mother’s kitchen garden

The men who saved the Gloucester cow

Hold the front page • Times have changed, but COUNTRY LIFE’s Frontispiece is a rare constant in publishing

Dear Editor… • A selection of readers’ preoccupations from our Letters pages

Greenwich restored to glory

In the frame

Countryside treasures

All creatures great and small

One man went to mow

125 glorious years • A few highlights among many from the eclectic world of COUNTRY LIFE

1897–2022 Everything’s changed and yet nothing’s changed in 125 years

Tartan terriers

A city sleeps

Dracula

What they said

The Irving connection

A castle and palace conjoined • Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire The seat of the Duke of Marlborough

Raise a glass • How to make The Hudson–a bespoke cocktail crafted to celebrate COUNTRY LIFE’s 125th anniversary–at home

Generation game

In an English country garden • Floral patterns are Hetty Lintell’s favourite in the lead up to the Chelsea Flower Show and The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee

Do you believe in cod? • Greedy and gormless, this is no sexy fish, but, on the plate, perfectly pearlescent cod is easily the equal of halibut or Dover sole, believes Tom Parker Bowles

Steamed cod spring with ginger onion and

A mixture of expertise and clap trap • Our fishing correspondent considers how angling–from monkey climbers to how to tie a helicopter rig–has developed in the past 125 years

The ebodiment of England • This daffodil-strewn countryside is the land of which Rupert Brooke thought when he wrote about a ‘corner of a foreign field’

The cow that went global • The shorthorn cow is coming into its own again. Jamie Blackett celebrates the 200th anniversary of the herdbook and the legacy of a dedicated farmer

The great...