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.

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Words grow no flowers

Labour blows for green

Good week for

Bad week for

Literary comfort

Farming’s new dawn

Country Mouse • A new home is where the heart is

Town Mouse • Cake and coffee

COUNTRY LIFE • November 20, 1920

Oh, the agony! • Resident agony uncle Kit Hesketh-Harvey solves your dilemmas

Town & Country Notebook

In the spotlight • Otter (Lutra lutra)

Wines of the week

Letters to the Editor

The last journey home

Special relationships

A feast for the eyes

Pass the butter (knife)

Athena • No place here for damnatio memoriae

The way we were • Photographs from the COUNTRY LIFE archive

Cannock Chase • Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty

Route de Versailles, Louveciennes by Pissarro

Baroque delights • A major restoration project, winner of a Georgian Group award in 2019, has revived a magnificent house inspired by the architecture of Baroque Rome. John Martin Robinson reports

Finding new purpose • The re-use of architectural materials and elements has a long and surprising history that’s all too easy to overlook, as John Goodall explains

Wee three kings • We are all familiar with the diminutive wren, yet its tiny fellow kinglets the goldcrest and firecrest are, perhaps understandably, often overlooked. Ian Morton studies our smallest birds

More avian extremes

Seeing is believing • Exquisitely crafted from hand-dyed silks and velvets, Anne Tomlin’s uncannily realistic flower pieces possess a beauty that will never fade, discovers Natasha Goodfellow

Say yes to the old dress • Our forebears did it out of necessity, but we are returning to their ways out of a desire to preserve the planet for future generations. Claire Jackson investigates the return of our make-do-and-mend mentality

In a fix: top tips for doing it yourself

As good as new: expert menders

Sweet charity: thrift-shop treasures

The winners are... • For the second year, Historic Houses and Country Life joined forces with Neptune to find great examples of new kitchens in old spaces. Last week, John Sims-Hilditch, co-founder of Neptune, announced the joint winners and a runner-up, all of whom have found highly inventive solutions to the challenge of creating a 21st-century kitchen in a listed building

Growing old gracefully • Well-made sofas aren’t only supremely comfortable–they also have the capacity to last for several generations

Decorex 2020

At your convenience • It might be the smallest room in the house and the butt of many a joke, but it is surely one of the most revealing. Bronwen Riley investigates the smartest loos in the land

The best seat in the house

Feeling flush? A history of loos through the ages

Slip into something more comfortable • Hetty Lintell dons her slippers

A work of history • Two homes with substantial stories to tell prepare to hit the market in North Yorkshire and Devon

Looks can be deceiving •...