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

A weekend to remember • You’ve already seen Big Ben and the Natural History Museum–so what next? Jo Rodgers describes her dream long weekend in London

London through the ages • The history of London remains fossilised in its streets and buildings to an astonishing degree. John Goodall takes a look at the layers of the past visible in the capital

The layers of the city

London’s top 10s • The choice of things to do, eat and see in London can be overwhelming, so we’ve made it easier for you by asking friends of the magazine for their favourite things

A king’s ransom • Rents and sale prices have increased vertiginously in the seven decades since the late Queen’s coronation, finds Carla Passino

Mrs Tom Wigmore Mackenzie

Spread the happiness

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Town & Country

Town & Country Notebook

Letters to the Editor

Wish you weren’t here

Athena Cultural Crusader • The Union restored in a spirit to emulate

The way we were • Photographs from the COUNTRY LIFE archive

My favourite painting John Chatfeild-Roberts • The Young Entry, A Snowy Road, Woolsthorpe by Sir Alfred Munnings

The Once and Futurist King • Let us now praise a good man

A ticket to history • Invitations to coronations have always been highly prized. Since the 18th century, they have also been designed to reflect the solemnity and splendour of the occasion, as John Goodall discovers

Kind hearts and coronets • Although many won’t be taking part in this year’s coronation, dukes and duchesses have hitherto played important roles, now reflected in a series of exhibitions, findsEleanor Doughty

The coronation weekend

The Regency reinvented • Great House, Dedham, Essex The home of Michael and Lucy Archer In the first major work of his career, the architect Raymond Erith subtly transformed the Regency idiom to create a design poised between past and present, as Alan Powers explains

Tamworth

New farmers on the medieval block • The ancient strip-farming methods pioneered in the Middle Ages are alive and kicking- and as effective as ever–in the north Nottinghamshire village of Laxton, as Ivo Dawnay discovers

Conquering the goddess of the sky • Seventy years ago, on the eve of the Queen’s coronation, Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay reached the summit of Everest. Octavia Pollock considers the legacy of their achievement and what it meant for British mountaineering

Who will wear the Badminton crown? • Badminton Horse Trials, which takes place on the weekend of the coronation, has long been associated with the Royal Family. Kate Green previews this year’s special event

A brush with plants • This month, the botanical artist Emma Tennant celebrates her 80th birthday- and 75 years of gardening and painting. Steven Desmond eagerly anticipates her forthcoming exhibition

Watch yourself • Hetty Lintell chooses some favourite timepieces launched at the recent Watches and Wonders fair in Geneva

Toast with a corona • Bolivar thinks the perfect way to celebrate a coronation is with a fine cigar

The great outdoors • Furniture...