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.

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...