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.

Home from home

Let’s hear it for puffins

It happened in Jersey

Don’t miss

Where trains once crossed • Antonia Windsor takes in the views along Jersey’s Railway Walk

Our Queen, the Duke • From a brace of mallards to a placid cow, Matthew Dennison examines the unusual connections between Jersey and the Royal Family

Flower power • As the Battle of Flowers celebrates its 120th anniversary this summer, Martha MacDonald traces the event’s quirky past

Diamonds of the first water • From traditional granite houses to beachside retreats, Holly Kirkwood has the pick of the best properties for sale across Jersey

Charlotte Souto Hill • Charlotte is the owner of CJ’s Birds of Prey, a display team that offers falconry courses and trains animals for television and wildlife programmes. Next week, she will appear at The Game Fair, Ragley Hall, Warwickshire, managing the falconry area for the sixth year in a row. Charlotte is married to José Souto and mother to Luis Souto.

Hear the countryside

Country Life

Into the blue

First whip

The last laugh

Good week for

Bad week for

Nature’s inspiration

Grub’s up

There were 10 in the bed...

Country Mouse • In the hot seat

Town Mouse • Pistols at dawn

Town & Country Notebook

Quiz of the week

100 years ago in COUNTRY LIFE • July 22, 1922

Time to buy

In the spotlight • Common cuttlefish (Sepia officinalis)

Unmissable events

Wines of the week

Letters to the Editor

Lost: a Country Party

Athena Cultural Crusader • Wanted: a prime minister for culture

The way we were Photographs from the COUNTRY LIFE archive

My favourite painting Ameer Kotecha

All is safely gathered in • Once the silage is in, there’s time for some thought-provoking reading

The English Landscape

Keeping it local

What they said

ENGLISH HOMES OLD & NEW • Each month of this 125th-anniversary year, COUNTRY LIFE describes a period in the development of the English great house. In the seventh of this 12-part series, John Goodall looks at the mid-Georgian world

Scent to try us • Lithe, opportunistic and with a predilection for poultry, these elusive, often pocket-sized predators have long raised a stink for farmers and gamekeepers, but not all of them deserve such an otterly bad rap, believes John Lewis-Stempel

Sapphires in the cereal • John Ruskin declared that ‘blue is everlastingly appointed by the deity to be a source of delight’. Thankfully, our wild cornflowers have come back from the brink to be that source, reports Ian Morton

When I’m feeling blue

Living with the Romans • The Romans may have long departed, but the remains of their presence are still evident on several country estates. Bronwen Riley meets the proud custodians of these remarkable and sometimes haunting sites

Founding fathers • In COUNTRY LIFE’s 125th year, Editor-in-Chief Mark Hedges pays a visit to Lindisfarne, the castle owned and restored by the magazine’s founder as his Northumberland retreat

Where to stay

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