Country Life

Published by TI Media Limited 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 Dorothea Gundtoft • Dorothea is a culture editor, stylist and author. She is the daughter of Per Gundtoft of Juelsminde, Denmark, and Dorthe Ross Gundtoft of Marbella, Spain, and will marry Charles James Hambro in London this winter. Dorothea follows in the footsteps of Mr Hambro’s great-grandmother Lady Lettice Lygon, who appeared on the Frontispiece on March 1, 1930.

Why haste creates waste

Country Life

Peatland restoration receives Government funding boost

Town & Country Notebook

Stuff & nonsense

Letters to the Editor

A chance for a new start

Athena • Cultural Crusader

My favourite painting Sir Lindsay Hoyle

Country-house treasures

An architectural evolution • Founded as a hostel for trainee Anglican clergy, this institution became a fully fledged college within Cambridge University with a set of landmark buildings, as Jeremy Musson explains

The legacy • Agnes Marshall and the ice-cream cone

It’s getting hot in here • Move over ketchup, there’s a new red sauce in town. Ben Lerwill meets five makers behind the chilli-spiked condiments blazing a trail across British tables

While the cat’s away… • Ever since the domestication of Felis catus, man has been faced with a dilemma: how to allow it to come and go without leaving the front door wide open? David Glasper charts the surprising history of the cat flap

If you only buy one… • Suitcase by Globe-Trotter

Oh my goth • Denizen of the Tower of London and Edgar Allan Poe’s avian muse, the raven has a bloodthirsty reputation that isn’t entirely deserved

The Experts’ Experts • Architects, designers and craftspeople from COUNTRY LIFE’s Top 100 list plunder their address books to reveal the specialists who make a difference

Property news

Life’s a beach • Escape inland life and wake to coastal views, ensuring that every day feels like a holiday

On top of the world • Life on a Cornish clifftop presents particular challenges, but also bountiful rewards for two intrepid garden owners, finds Kirsty Fergusson

Gardeners ancient and modern

The raw deal • Bring a touch of Peruvian zing to your table this summer with a dish of sparklingly fresh, zesty ceviche, says Tom Parker Bowles

Travel Unpacked

Up in the chair • Sedans, abhorred at first for making horses out of men, became the conveyance of choice and an object of beauty for Georgian society

Art to dine for • Little beats the picture of a murder victim as the catalyst for dining-room conversation, but, should you not happen to have one at hand, Melanie Cable-Alexander has alternative suggestions

Catch of the day • If fins are your thing, antiquarian fish prints might be the little luxury you didn’t know you needed. Collector Paul Martin advises on some of the very best

For the record • Paintings by Lucian Freud and Amedeo Modigliani led a Sotheby’s sale to reach the highest total ever achieved in Europe for one evening of auctioneering

The ‘capable woman’ who would be queen

Bridge and crossword

Saints be praised

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