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 Béatrice Poole-Connor • Béatrice is studying towards her bachelor’s degree in International Management and Spanish at the University of Bath in Somerset. She is a former marketing intern at Hackett and the daughter of Murray and Armelle Poole-Connor of Fulham, London.

Breaking the doom loop

Country Life

Town & Country

Town & Country Notebook

Stuff & nonsense

Letters to the Editor

Rural voices must be heard

Athena • Cultural Crusader

Artificial sweeteners • AI is now reaching into every corner of our lives. We can–and must–very carefully choose how we engage with it

My favourite painting Henrietta Billings

Country-house treasures

A genius of the first class • To mark the tercentenary of Sir John Vanbrugh’s death, Charles Saumarez Smith considers the changing reactions to one of his greatest creations, Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire

H. M. Bateman and the ‘Man who…’ cartoons

Small victories • This Victorian contribution to our fauna might be diminutive, but what the little owl lacks in stature, it makes up for in fierce character and mythical cachet

Step change • The grand, sweeping staircases of old country houses are loaded with centuries of architectural, romantic and ghostly allure, reveals Melanie Cable-Alexander

Going, going… gone? • As an American bioscience company makes headlines with its plans to ‘de-extinct’ the dodo, Emma Hughes tries to separate fact from fiction in the tale of history’s most mythologised bird

The generation game • The age of noblesse oblige may have passed, but the aristocracy continues to play an important role in shaping and preserving life in the countryside, says Eleanor Doughty

The designer’s room • The design of Alice Palmer’s kitchen was influenced by her foreign travels

Glazed expressions • Why glass can offer the secret to creating multifunctional spaces

Mixing it up • The glistening combination of gold and silver is a match made in heaven, finds Amie Elizabeth White

Green with envy • These homes share one defining feature: exceptional energy efficiency. From solar panels to triple glazing and heat pumps, green thinking delivers lower running costs, reduced carbon footprints and effortless modern comfort

Flowers of the desert • Scrubby farmland near Marrakech has been transformed into an exceptional garden with views of the snow-capped Atlas mountains, discovers Kirsty Fergusson

Setting the cat among the pigeons

Peak performance • Tartiflette is one of the most gloriously indulgent après-ski centrepieces, but you don’t need to have spent the day bombing down black runs to enjoy it, says Tom Parker Bowles

We’ve got beef • Celebrity-endorsed and ‘British to the backbone’, protein-rich Bovril was a 19th-century superfood once considered as infallible as the Pope, discovers Rob Crossan

Faraway, so close • Ties between Britain and Hawai‘i ran deep, so much that the Union Jack was included in the Pacific country’s new flag and its coat of arms was designed in London, as a British Museum exhibition highlights

Easel come, easel go • No chance to travel? No problem: from Italy with Pompeo...