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 Madeleine Louise O’Niell • Madeleine is a senior account manager at Bloxham PR. She is engaged to Toby Marshall, whom she will marry next year, and is the daughter of Robert and Helen O’Niell of Corse and Staunton, Gloucestershire.

Make the most of it

Country Life

Town & Country

Town & Country Notebook

Letters to the Editor

Low water equals rising bills

Our seaside towns need their heritage

The way we were • Photographs from the COUNTRY LIFE archive

My favourite painting Matthew Williamson

Speak, memory • Between Suffolk and Siberia

Preserving one’s modesty • When the British fell in love with the seaside, they invented a mobile building to convey them to the water. Kathryn Ferry tells the remarkable tale of the bathing machine

Native breeds North Ronaldsay

Meet the parrots of the sea • It might look adorable, but the stumpy and dangerously endangered puffin is a ruthlessly efficient fish killer that’s so hellbent on finding its family a home, it will chase rabbits out of their own burrows, observes Ian Morton

What an old fossil • From a kamikaze ichthyosaur to a gigantic shell with sinister tentacles, Britain teems with fascinating fossils. Simon de Bruxelles meets the collectors following in Mary Anning’s footsteps

Tripping the light fintastic • Whether maidens with a heart as golden as their tresses or vengeful princesses with crab-infested hair, mermaids have enchanted the British for centuries, as Carla Passino discovers

Game, set and match • A sparkling tennis bracelet is an apt accessory for Wimbledon week, says Hetty Lintell

The designer’s room • The new owners of this London townhouse have reconfigured it to create a sociable space for cooking and entertaining

Show me the light • Illuminating a kitchen island is a dark art, finds Arabella Youens

Magnificent survivors • Two estates in the South Downs have been preserved by a passion for the Arts

A hidden escape • Charlie Baker visits one of the Isle of Wight’s oldest villages and finds a quiet enclave of eccentricity

Coasts with the most • These seaside properties will make you wonder why you would live anywhere else

London Life • Your indispensable guide to the capital

London Life Need to know

Pillar of society • Bravery, bold plans and a good head for numbers helped Thomas Cubitt shape much of London, but he also aided schools, churches and charities, finds Carla Passino

Centre stage • The majority of us only pass through the heart of London, more commonly known as Zone 1, for work or play, but, for some people, it’s home. Emma Love meets the residents with Trafalgar Square on the doorstep

A world within a world • The garden of Encombe House, Dorset The home of Mr and Mrs James Gaggero Revealing the history of this breathtaking 18th-century landscape, with its views out to sea, informed the garden’s latest reincarnation, says George Plumptre

With a cherry on top

Kitchen garden cook Cherry tomatoes

Bucket, spade and barbecue • The Great British Summer is upon us and there’s little that can beat supper cooked and served on the sand, says Jack...