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.

BABY, IT’S WARM OUTSIDE • From the Cayman Islands to Morocco

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Eat up • From jug-jug to jerk, Emma Hughes discovers the many different flavours of Caribbean cuisine

A royal retreat • Members of the Royal Family have been seeking safe haven abroad for centuries, be it due to religion, politics or war.Ian Morton follows in the footsteps of some of our best-known exiles

Cultural capital • There’s nothing like a change of scene to get the creative juices flowing. Eleanor Doughty talks to writers and artists who have moved to a location that inspires them every day

Off-peak: che bello! • Visitors may discover a different side to Italy in the cooler months, finds Arabella Youens

In search of sunshine • Arabella Youens explores what you can buy (and how far your budget will go) in short- and long-haul destinations

For love of Florence • Tom Richards will soon be head of the Florence Academy of Art. He speaks to Arabella Youens

Miss Julia Lehr Perowne

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The dog and the frog

Abs of steel

Town & Country Notebook

Letters to the Editor

Trick or treat

Energy and the cost to culture

The way we were Photographs from the COUNTRY LIFE archive

My favourite painting Clare Matterson

Up hill and down dale • The circular Five Valleys Walk around the buzzing town of Stroud is hard work, but all in a good cause

Akenfield: Portrait of an English Village

A seat of legal learning • Lincoln’s Inn, London WC2, part II The Honourable Society of Lincoln’s Inn In the second of two articles, John Goodall examines the architectural development of Lincoln’s Inn from the late 17th century to the present day

Roald’s marvellous medicine • The countryside filled the Matilda author Roald Dahl with joy and proved a constant source of inspiration, as Matthew Dennison reveals in a new biography of the prolific storyteller

In praise of decency • Queuing for hours to pay tribute to our Queen was a typically moving display of British thoughtfulness, but other examples abound in the countryside, finds Margaret Casely-Hayford

A tomb with a view • Long or round, large or small, prehistoric tumuli dot the countryside. Vicky Liddell explores the history, folklore and literary influence of burial mounds or barrows and reveals how they were nearly lost to the 18th-century digging mania

Country Church Monuments • With new photography, Cameron Newham’s new book examines the astonishing and undervalued riches of funeral monuments in our rural churches

Dress accordingly • Cord has shaken off its fusty cloak and is recognised again as a luxurious yet practical fabric, says Hetty Lintell

Get yourself into a right stew • Nothing soothes like a warming and comforting bowl of stew, an accommodating dish that can take any ingredient–if you use the right meat, says Tom Parker Bowles

Splendid isolation • What...