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 Laura Allin
The glory of our gardens
Country Life
Rivers of waste • Simon Cooper traces the history of sewage discharges in British waters and suggests possible solutions
Good week for
Bad week for
It’s Surreal
On the road
Flying high
A helping hand
Town Mouse A Lincoln outing
Country Mouse Spring fever
100 years ago in COUNTRY LIFE May 20, 1922
Town & Country Notebook
Wines of the week
Letter of the week
Letters to the Editor
Healing divisions
Another climate-change challenge
The way we were Photographs from the Country Life archive
Charlotte Mullins comments on Madonna with Child and Saints
Lek at me • Managed moorland is the place to observe an extraordinary mating ritual
The lions of Trafalgar Square
A troubled talent
What they said
With a spring in its step • Kathryn Bradley-Hole selects some of the many highlights of the RHS Chelsea Flower Show, which at long last returns to its traditional May slot
More to see
Oriental splendour • Glamorous and easy to grow, Japanese tree peonies are the mainstay of Primrose Hall Nursery in Bedfordshire, says Val Bourne
Alec White’s growing tips
Six of the finest
Stands and delivers • The walled garden, Culham Court, Berkshire The home of Urs and Francesca Schwarzenbach Disciplined design underpins maximal planting to create a garden that stays in the memory, finds Tiffany Daneff
Loopy about lupins • Steven Desmond uncovers the touching story behind the exotic, multi-coloured field of lupins at Terwick in West Sussex
In praise of obsession
up potatoes
Scallop and broad-bean pesto spaghetti
More ways with Broad beans
‘Believe nothing to be impossible’ • ‘No harder than dancing the Charleston’, according to Lady Heath, flying planes was all the rage for the women of the 1930s, explains Charles Harris
Come fly with me
To ring a nightingale • On a cold spring morning, Patrick Galbraith held a nightingale in the palm of his hand. Yet, by the time he has grandchildren, this amazing little bird may have sung its last
A good old singalong
Skimming the surface • With a mind-boggling ability to walk on pools, rivers and even the ocean, water skaters are Nature’s great survivors, says Ian Morton
Life on the edge
Get your beer goggles on • When a 15ft-high flood of beer swept through a London slum in 1814, it killed more people than the Great Fire of London, says Michael Montagu
English Home part V 1630–88 • Each month of this 125th anniversary year, COUNTRY LIFE illustrates a period in the development of the English great house. In the fifth of this 12-part series, John Goodall looks at developments through an age of revolution
The designer's room • Handsome furniture, hard-wearing surfaces and plenty of natural light have transformed this Wiltshire country-house kitchen
Hanging out • Elegant pendant lights, selected by Amelia Thorpe
The good stuff The race is on • Dress to the nines, says Hetty Lintell, as Royal Ascot returns
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