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.

LONDON LIFE • Your indispensable guide to the capital

News

Another brick in the wall • In the first of a new monthly series looking back at the people who helped shape London, Carla Passino discovers that despite his ‘unruffled serenity’, not all of Sir Giles Gilbert Scott’s designs were met with rapt enthusiasm

The great and the good

On the market • London’s markets–selling all manner of goods from livestock in the east to lavender in the south-west–used to be ubiquitous. Patrick Galbraith visits the ones still soldiering on

THE CAPITAL ACCORDING TO...Justin Webb • The BBC Radio 4 Today presenter talks to Rob Crossan about eating on live radio, London at 4am and the best place in the capital to conduct a discreet, in-person interview

Miss Alexandra Miles

Time for a reboot

Country Life

State of the Arts • London and the South of England have long been the primary beneficiaries of Arts funding, but is the Government’s latest plan to ‘level up’ actually doing the opposite? Claire Jackson investigates

Town & Country Notebook

Letters to the Editor

Mind your language

Athena Cultural Crusader • Another dereliction of duty

The way we were Photographs from the COUNTRY LIFE archive

My favourite painting Debbie Wiseman

Home on the range • A plea for common sense

The Chiswick House Camellias

In search of desirable residences • New housing is one of the great issues of the present moment. Roger White looks at the example of Dorset, where he lives, and tries to draw some lessons from recent development there

Native breeds Clydesdale horse

Farming on the edge • Adapt or give up? Defra’s new post-Brexit payment schemes for farmers seem to offer both hope and dismay. Julie Harding talks to farming leaders about their concerns for the future

Brave new world? Or same old • The Government’s failure to be bold means that UK farming risks being neither competitive nor green

I’m all right, Jack • Small, but mighty, the feisty Jack Russell is as popular as ever, not least as it’s The Queen Consort’s breed of choice. Fellow terrier owner India Sturgis recounts why these tiny tearaways remain so perennially appealing

Flower power • Spring is in the air and with it the joy of flowers creeping back into bloom. Hetty Lintell chooses some of her favourite jewels to reflect her favourite season

The designer’s room • Opening up space either side of a chimney breast transformed this kitchen and dining room, designed by Susie Atkinson

Show stoppers • Amelia Thorpe rounds up favourite new designs at spring’s unmissable interiors event, London Design Week

So very Surrey • Great names of the past are recalled in three magnificent properties

The next generation • From the new homes that are popping up all over the country, we’ve chosen some of our favourites

Following the sun • Grey Gables, Buckinghamshire The home of Liz Houghton A contemporary extension to an Arts-and-Crafts house led to a reassessment of the whole garden, rationalising the space and bringing shaded areas back into use, finds Tiffany Daneff

Hot potatoes

Kitchen garden cook...