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Country Life

Jan 18 2023
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.

Miss Willa Cecilia Susan Carnegie

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

Country Life

Town & Country • For all the latest news, visit countrylife.co.uk

Town & Country Notebook

Letters to the Editor

Hunting down hypocrisy

Is it right to pay for listing?

The way we were Photographs from the COUNTRY LIFE archive

My favourite painting Tahir Shah • Major Wilfred Thesiger, DSO by Anthony Devas

Return of the woolly menaces • The over-wintering lambs are both a satisfaction and a headache

The Pagoda, Kew Gardens

Blue-sky thinking • Glasshouses are finding a dual purpose as homes not only for plants, but for sun-starved people, too, says Caroline Donald

Awesome alpines • For an excellent selection of the finest auriculas, Tilly Ware recommends the Suffolk nursery Woottens

The first of many • Ian Morton celebrates the remarkable Fanny Rollo Wilkinson, the first woman in the country to become a professional landscape gardener

Take a stand • Shelves and supports for displaying plants, selected by Amelia Thorpe

Bags of colour • Kendra Wilson visits the tulip farms of Lincolnshire, where local growers, such as Smith & Munson, nurture more than 200 million tulips every season

Getting a few words in hedgewise

All aboard for Ironhenge! • Fawley Hill, Buckinghamshire, part I The home of Lady McAlpine and the late Sir William McAlpineAn astonishing assemblage of buildings, machinery and memorabilia is testimony to one man’s remarkable enthusiasm for the railways, as Marcus Binney discovers in the first of two articles

Native breeds Welsh cob

Hot under the collar • Dog collars have changed little since they came into use some 8,000 years ago, although some decorative examples have dripped with embellishments, from bells to hardstone intaglios, as Matthew Dennison discovers

Are you stark raven mad? • Edgar Allan Poe’s muse, Charles Dickens’s companion and Shakespeare’s messenger of doom: is there a more powerful presence in the natural or literary world than the raven, asks Ian Morton

On bended knee • Engagement rings needn’t be traditional, explains Hetty Lintell, even if the proposal is

The designer’s room • Lucy Cunningham employed a light touch in the decoration of this drawing room overlooking the Slad Valley

How sociable is your sofa? • The convivial and space-efficient joys of the corner sofa

First stars of 2023 • The launch onto the market of three notable early-Georgian houses highlights their enduring appeal

Green is the warmest colour • Spring is on the way, so best get yourself a garden to appreciate it in

Kitchen garden cook Parsnips

Cometh the hour, cometh the villain • Great baddies make a novel, capturing the imagination in ways that well-meaning heroes often fail to do. Catriona Gray selects seven literary fiends whose dastardly deeds are never forgotten

In the company of risk takers

Brussels sprouts into life • Belgium is marking 2023 as the year of Art Nouveau

Sauce for the goose •...


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Frequency: Weekly Pages: 116 Publisher: Future Publishing Ltd Edition: Jan 18 2023

OverDrive Magazine

  • Release date: January 18, 2023

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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.

Miss Willa Cecilia Susan Carnegie

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

Country Life

Town & Country • For all the latest news, visit countrylife.co.uk

Town & Country Notebook

Letters to the Editor

Hunting down hypocrisy

Is it right to pay for listing?

The way we were Photographs from the COUNTRY LIFE archive

My favourite painting Tahir Shah • Major Wilfred Thesiger, DSO by Anthony Devas

Return of the woolly menaces • The over-wintering lambs are both a satisfaction and a headache

The Pagoda, Kew Gardens

Blue-sky thinking • Glasshouses are finding a dual purpose as homes not only for plants, but for sun-starved people, too, says Caroline Donald

Awesome alpines • For an excellent selection of the finest auriculas, Tilly Ware recommends the Suffolk nursery Woottens

The first of many • Ian Morton celebrates the remarkable Fanny Rollo Wilkinson, the first woman in the country to become a professional landscape gardener

Take a stand • Shelves and supports for displaying plants, selected by Amelia Thorpe

Bags of colour • Kendra Wilson visits the tulip farms of Lincolnshire, where local growers, such as Smith & Munson, nurture more than 200 million tulips every season

Getting a few words in hedgewise

All aboard for Ironhenge! • Fawley Hill, Buckinghamshire, part I The home of Lady McAlpine and the late Sir William McAlpineAn astonishing assemblage of buildings, machinery and memorabilia is testimony to one man’s remarkable enthusiasm for the railways, as Marcus Binney discovers in the first of two articles

Native breeds Welsh cob

Hot under the collar • Dog collars have changed little since they came into use some 8,000 years ago, although some decorative examples have dripped with embellishments, from bells to hardstone intaglios, as Matthew Dennison discovers

Are you stark raven mad? • Edgar Allan Poe’s muse, Charles Dickens’s companion and Shakespeare’s messenger of doom: is there a more powerful presence in the natural or literary world than the raven, asks Ian Morton

On bended knee • Engagement rings needn’t be traditional, explains Hetty Lintell, even if the proposal is

The designer’s room • Lucy Cunningham employed a light touch in the decoration of this drawing room overlooking the Slad Valley

How sociable is your sofa? • The convivial and space-efficient joys of the corner sofa

First stars of 2023 • The launch onto the market of three notable early-Georgian houses highlights their enduring appeal

Green is the warmest colour • Spring is on the way, so best get yourself a garden to appreciate it in

Kitchen garden cook Parsnips

Cometh the hour, cometh the villain • Great baddies make a novel, capturing the imagination in ways that well-meaning heroes often fail to do. Catriona Gray selects seven literary fiends whose dastardly deeds are never forgotten

In the company of risk takers

Brussels sprouts into life • Belgium is marking 2023 as the year of Art Nouveau

Sauce for the goose •...


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