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 Katie Underwood

On a wing and a prayer

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Town & Country Notebook

Letters to the Editor

No smoke without fire

Elitism in the Arts is a good thing

The way we were • Photographs from the COUNTRY LIFE archive

My favourite painting Skye Gyngell

Ode to June • The days are languorous, as what passes for a drought hits Dumfriesshire, bringing with it plusses and minuses

Medieval beauty • The Cloisters, New York, US Part of the Metropolitan Museum of ArtOne of the most important museums of medieval art in the world could only have been created in 1930s America, as Jeremy Musson discovers

Greyface Dartmoor

Flights of fancy • Capturing images of British butterflies dancing through the air like petals on the breeze has been a labour of love for photographer Andrew Fusek Peters, as he tells Ben Lerwill

The man who bought Stonehenge • On a whim in 1915, Sir Cecil Chubb made a bid for a plot of land that would never get planning permission. Bernard Bale looks at the life of the barrister who gave Stonehenge to the nation

Life, the universe and everything • Does the meaning of life hide in our mystical relationship with our world, as captured by the cave art of prehistoric men, asks Robin Hanbury-Tenison

Let it go to your head • As supple as an Olympic gymnast and as uncrushable as the bulldog spirit, the Panama hat has long been a staple of the British gentleman’s summer attire, says Harry Pearson

Legend of his time • Jacky Ickx won the 24 Hours of Le Mans six times between 1969 and 1982. As the gruelling endurance race turns 100, Simon de Burton talks to ‘Monsieur Le Mans’ and finds that motorsport wasn’t the first career choice for the famous driver

Aceing the trend • With Wimbledon almost upon us, Hetty Lintell shows how to hone your style on and off the court

Style update • Bright ideas to inspire this summer, selected

Pearls of wisdom • What Jackie Kennedy’s $35 necklace tells us about price and value

Heaven in Hampshire • A 200-acre estate steeped in history and a prime angling opportunity light up the property market this week

Property news

Keeping the faith • The garden at Stonor Park, Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire The home of Lord and Lady Camoys From their first mention in the late 14th century, the gardens of Stonor Park have gone through as many ups and downs as the family that still lives there. Today, after decades of careful work, they are in top form, finds James Alexander-Sinclair

Flower songs

From field to dinner-party fork • Embracing seasonal, home-grown produce is always preferable, but how easy is it to grow your own supper party, asks Natasha Goodfellow

Kitchen garden cook Dill

Why treasure is a universal word • The new Treasure House fair carries the hopes of the art and antiques market

A colourful life through a lens • Suffragette and groundbreaking photographer Madame Yevonde was as adept at capturing COUNTRY LIFE Frontispiece subjects as she was at creating conceptual art with high-society models sporting rubber-snake headdresses, says Lucinda Gosling

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