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.

Dr Georgina Mary Sarah Hicks

Back in bloom

Country Life

Town & Country

Town & Country Notebook

Letters to the Editor

Bread-and-butter basics

Tate Britain’s hostility to history

The way we were • Photographs from the COUNTRY LIFE archive

My favourite painting Beatrice Grant

The money’s on the wall • Charlotte Mullins imagines how best to spend a spare £10,000 on art and takes a look at five artists worth investing in right now

A rare place to rest • Broadwoodside, East Lothian The home of Robert and Anna Dalrymple A modest farm steading has been stylishly transformed into the heart of a magical landscape and garden. John Goodall admires the sympathy and humour of the project

Native breeds Hereford

Let’s stick together • The countryside is for everyone and the problems facing it- and farming and the environment–will not be solved if the different factions continue to squabble, points out Julian Glover

As we walk in fields of gold • In a scene straight out of a Constable painting, John Lewis-Stempel luxuriates in a wheat field embroidered with wildflowers, as noughts and crosses of swallows and starlings traverse the mellow May skies

A little bird told me • After years of decline, the Dartford warbler has returned to the area of old Kent where it was discovered 250 years ago, reviving a feud over its name, finds Russell Higham

Heaven only knows • Our ancestors may have been God-fearing, but they weren’t above misbehaving in church. Carla Passino delves into records of parish life and discovers a host of miscreants, from naked Quakers to veil-less women and squealing clerks

A right royal Derby day • Seventy years after Elizabeth II so nearly had a coronation Derby winner, Jack Watkins looks at royal connections with the great race

Luxury Notebook

A few of my favourite things • Dame Jessica Ennis-Hill is one of the greatest British track and field athletes of all time. European champion in 2010 and Olympic champion at the London 2012 Games, she has also won three world heptathlon titles, as well as gold at the IAAF World Championships in Beijing only 13 months after giving birth. After retiring in 2016, she set up her fem-tech business, the app Jennis, bringing her first-hand knowledge of how female hormones affect performance, mood and health. She lives in the Peak District, with her husband, Andy Hill, and two children, Olivia and Reggie.

Purple reign • Regal amethyst jewellery and watches deserve a royal fanfare

The designer’s room • This Chelsea bedroom by Paolo Moschino is an essay in timeless elegance

True blues • Fresh picks for the home, selected by Amelia Thorpe

Hidden Herefordshire • The launch onto the market of three landmark country houses reveals why the county is increasingly seen as a quiet alternative to the Cotswolds

When the shoe no longer fits • Sometimes our homes can get too big for us, meaning it’s time to downsize. Here, we speak to those involved with the process

Natural flair • Town Place, East Sussex The garden of Mr & Mrs Anthony McGrath Charles Quest-Ritson visits a garden shaped by intellect and clothed in beauty

A shimmering...