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.

What’s on in London • COUNTRY LIFE rounds up the best things to do in the capital in 2023

City of a scandal • Georgian London wasn’t only rocked by the Industrial Revolution, but a series of scandalous affairs and liaisons at the very top echelons of society that regularly made headlines, discovers Carla Passino

At home in scandalous London

The great and the good

The people’s palace • It was named after royalty and hosted the world’s first live high-definition public television broadcast, but Alexandra Palace was nearly felled by fire and financial struggles. On the eve of its 150th birthday, Jack Watkins looks back at a London icon that defied all the odds

THE CAPITAL ACCORDING TO...Barnaby Jameson • Rob Crossan speaks to one of the UK’s leading counter-terrorism barristers about eccentric bus routes and lazy ballerinas

Miss Eleanor Louise Mainwaring

These happy breeds

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Town & Country

Town & Country Notebook

Letters to the Editor

Recipes for a Happy New Year

In defence of distinct Ukrainian culture

The way we were Photographs from the COUNTRY LIFE archive

My favourite painting Philip Hooper

Love in the Ruins • A reluctant epiphany among the books

Pontcysyllte Aqueduct

An Artsand-Crafts education • Munstead Wood, Surrey The home of the late Sir Robert and Lady Clark A happy friendship between a great gardener and architect, both closely connected to COUNTRY LIFE, created an outstanding Surrey house, as Clive Aslet explains

Native breeds Longhorn cattle

All hail the Lord of Misrule • Once a time of merriment when rules were subverted, Twelfth Night has long since lost its sparkle, says Vicky Liddell, as she digs into the colourful past of the Feast of Fools and finds that some traditions live on

The best things in life are free • As declared by Coco Chanel, who added ‘the second best things are very, very expensive’, many pastimes–from stargazing to birdwatching–don’t cost a penny. Emma Hughes picks 27 (almost) free ways to while away a day

In the grand scheme of life • Julian Roup ponders his place on earth among the wildlife around his West Sussex home

Less is more • January offers a chance to bag a bargain, findsAmelia Thorpe

Feel-good fabrics • British textile businesses are collaborating with far-flung artisanal communities, findsAmelia Thorpe

Fields of gold • The clamour for English acres propelled prices to a six-year high in 2022 as investors vied to secure a limited supply of farmland for sale

Completely bewitched • Charles Quest-Ritson visits the National Collection of Hamamelis in Kent, where the air is filled with their wonderful scent

Seeing the wood for the trees

Kitchen garden cook Broccoli

Drinks without the downside • Whether you’re doing it for health reasons or simply for a New Year’s challenge, giving up alcohol isn’t necessarily all that easy. To help you on your way, the COUNTRY LIFE office put a variety of non-alcoholic spirits to the test. Here’s what we found

Don’t forget to writehome • Hugh Francis Anderson checks in to The Plaza, New York, once the favoured haunt of literary...