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 Emily Anna Witherington Peers
All the world’s a stage
Country Life
Town & Country
Town & Country Notebook
Letters to the Editor
Heed the rural voice
Athena Cultural Crusader • We must restore the home of government
The way we were Photographs from the COUNTRY LIFE archive
Kilvert’s Diary
My favourite painting The Lord Mayor
Notes from an old master • The leading art dealer on the state of the market, Brexit and biscuits
Beauty is in the eye of the brush holder • Ever since Leonardo da Vinci followed curiously featured people in the street to capture their likeness on canvas, artists have been fascinated by the grotesque and unusual, says Michael Prodger
An encyclopaedia of architecture • Winchester College, Hampshire, part II The Warden and Fellows of Winchester College In the second of two articles, Jeremy Musson offers an overview of the wealth of buildings created by Winchester College from the Reformation to the present
Native breeds • Badger Face Welsh Mountain sheep
Go ahead, jump! • Once a symbol of fertility and more recently a figure of fun, the frog has always loomed large in folklore, and not only as a means of finding a prince. Now, however, some species’ future is uncertain, finds Ian Morton
The writing’s on the wall • Early on a bright and frosty February morning, John Lewis-Stempel sets about trying to repair a dry-stone wall in the hope of keeping his horse, and other livestock, away from his prized roses
Luxury Notebook
A few of my favourite things • In 2011, the Cambridgeshire-born actor shot to fame starring as the lead in the film adaptation of Michael Morpurgo’s book War Horse. The following year, he played Pip in Great Expectations, alongside Helena Bonham Carter and Ralph Fiennes. He lives in Buckinghamshire, where he is currently working on a renovation project, and his next film is a Studiocanal horror thriller called Baghead.
All the trimmings • Beautiful tassels look as opulent adorning skin as they do silk
The designer’s room • A fragment of hand-painted chinoiserie set the scene for the decoration of this bathroom at Keythorpe Hall, Leicestershire
The secrets of design success • On March 15 at 3pm, three leading names will discuss what it takes to be a brilliant interior designer
Splendid isolation • Two gems in East Anglia come garnished with history, space and privacy
Edward or Edwin • The early 20th century saw a golden age of living and architecture
A cut above • Nothing beats homegrown flowers for beauty, variety and scent. Tiffany Daneff asks three British growers for the best advice on starting your own cutting garden
Life-changing gardens
Fresh picks • Elegant vases for all kinds of flowers, selected by Amelia Thorpe
Kitchen garden cook Salad leaves
The ‘firework’ master • As at home on a theatre set as he was before a canvas, John Piper pioneered abstract art in many materials, from stained glass to textiles, and even choreographed the Queen’s Silver Jubilee firework display, says Peyton Skipwith
Out of the ordinary • A sale of the macabre contains eclectic items, not...