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Country Life

Nov 23 2022
Magazine

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.

Mrs Penelope Jane Meredith-Hardy

Comforts and joy • Future Publishing Ltd, 121–141 Westbourne Terrace, Paddington, London W2 6JR 0330 390 6591; www.countrylife.co.uk

Country Life

Fears for our green lungs

Town & Country Notebook

Letters to the Editor

Requiem for our roses

We need evidence, not emotion

The way we were Photographs from the COUNTRY LIFE archive

My favourite painting Oliver Mears • The 3rd of May 1808 in Madrid by Francisco de Goya

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Austen and the country house • Country houses serve as an ever-charming backdrop to the novels of Jane Austen. With the help of specially commissioned drawings, Jeremy Musson considers her treatment of their architecture

A brush with history • Deep in the Wiltshire countryside, Compton Marbling keeps alive a centuries-old art form. Julie Harding marvels at the colours and patterns of marbled paper- and the extraordinary skill of those who make it

Like a child with a new toy • From automata to wooden dogs with jointed legs, members of the British Toymakers Guild have crafted a cornucopia of intriguing playthings that are not only for children, says Claire Jackson

A call to arms

Grate expectations • As legendary cheesemonger Paxton & Whitfield celebrates its 225th birthday, Emma Hughes goes behind the scenes and discovers why this remarkable business has stood the test of time

Big cheeses: bestsellers down the ages

Strong flavours to savour • The crowning glory of the clubland table, a robust savoury–such as Welsh rarebit with lashings of Worcestershire sauce–is sure to pack a piquant palate punch, wagers Tom Parker Bowles

Tom’s top five savouries

Sip, sip hooray! • Who will be drinking what this Christmas? Six oenophiles and one teetotaller share their top festive tipples with Eleanor Doughty Illustration by Adam Larkum

Me old china • Christmas is the perfect time to bring festive tables to life with antique china, glass and silver, finds Melanie Johnson

Top tables • Inspirational ideas for setting the table this season, selected by Amelia Thorpe

Christmas gifts • Hetty Lintell has the festive season all wrapped up

The Editor’s choice • COUNTRY LIFE Editor Mark Hedges reveals his favourite things from the past year

If the shoes fit • Royalty, James Bond and even a lame dog have all benefited from John Lobb’s exquisite shoe-making craftsmanship during the past 173 years, says Zeb Soanes

Merry halls • Painstaking restorations have made for three warmly welcoming and grand family homes

Property news

Properties of the week

A gardener’s Christmas • Paul Hawkins uses garden and hedgerow pickings in style, blended with shop-bought highlights, discovers Tiffany Daneff

Painting the life force

Kitchen garden cook Swiss chard

‘The once and future king’ • Lauding King Arthur as a symbol of chivalry and honour, Pre-Raphaelite artists such as Edward Burne-Jones were as in thrall to the legendary monarch as his loyal knights of the Round Table, says Matthew Dennison

We love Paris in the autumn • The first combined Fine Arts Paris &...


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Frequency: Weekly Pages: 224 Publisher: Future Publishing Ltd Edition: Nov 23 2022

OverDrive Magazine

  • Release date: November 23, 2022

Formats

OverDrive Magazine

subjects

Travel & Outdoor

Languages

English

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.

Mrs Penelope Jane Meredith-Hardy

Comforts and joy • Future Publishing Ltd, 121–141 Westbourne Terrace, Paddington, London W2 6JR 0330 390 6591; www.countrylife.co.uk

Country Life

Fears for our green lungs

Town & Country Notebook

Letters to the Editor

Requiem for our roses

We need evidence, not emotion

The way we were Photographs from the COUNTRY LIFE archive

My favourite painting Oliver Mears • The 3rd of May 1808 in Madrid by Francisco de Goya

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Austen and the country house • Country houses serve as an ever-charming backdrop to the novels of Jane Austen. With the help of specially commissioned drawings, Jeremy Musson considers her treatment of their architecture

A brush with history • Deep in the Wiltshire countryside, Compton Marbling keeps alive a centuries-old art form. Julie Harding marvels at the colours and patterns of marbled paper- and the extraordinary skill of those who make it

Like a child with a new toy • From automata to wooden dogs with jointed legs, members of the British Toymakers Guild have crafted a cornucopia of intriguing playthings that are not only for children, says Claire Jackson

A call to arms

Grate expectations • As legendary cheesemonger Paxton & Whitfield celebrates its 225th birthday, Emma Hughes goes behind the scenes and discovers why this remarkable business has stood the test of time

Big cheeses: bestsellers down the ages

Strong flavours to savour • The crowning glory of the clubland table, a robust savoury–such as Welsh rarebit with lashings of Worcestershire sauce–is sure to pack a piquant palate punch, wagers Tom Parker Bowles

Tom’s top five savouries

Sip, sip hooray! • Who will be drinking what this Christmas? Six oenophiles and one teetotaller share their top festive tipples with Eleanor Doughty Illustration by Adam Larkum

Me old china • Christmas is the perfect time to bring festive tables to life with antique china, glass and silver, finds Melanie Johnson

Top tables • Inspirational ideas for setting the table this season, selected by Amelia Thorpe

Christmas gifts • Hetty Lintell has the festive season all wrapped up

The Editor’s choice • COUNTRY LIFE Editor Mark Hedges reveals his favourite things from the past year

If the shoes fit • Royalty, James Bond and even a lame dog have all benefited from John Lobb’s exquisite shoe-making craftsmanship during the past 173 years, says Zeb Soanes

Merry halls • Painstaking restorations have made for three warmly welcoming and grand family homes

Property news

Properties of the week

A gardener’s Christmas • Paul Hawkins uses garden and hedgerow pickings in style, blended with shop-bought highlights, discovers Tiffany Daneff

Painting the life force

Kitchen garden cook Swiss chard

‘The once and future king’ • Lauding King Arthur as a symbol of chivalry and honour, Pre-Raphaelite artists such as Edward Burne-Jones were as in thrall to the legendary monarch as his loyal knights of the Round Table, says Matthew Dennison

We love Paris in the autumn • The first combined Fine Arts Paris &...


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