Country Life
magazine ∣ Dec 30 2020 · Country Life
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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 Claire Ellen Morrissey
The news in 2021
Country Life
The nation asks the Trust • This year saw the 125th anniversary of the National Trust. In what might be described as the Trust’s most challenging year ever, director-general Hilary McGrady answers your questions about the organisation’s past, present and future
Locking in the loupers
What treasures lie beneath?
The answers you need
Country Mouse • Life goes on
Town Mouse • A funny old New Year
100 years ago in COUNTRY LIFE January 1, 1921
Town & Country Notebook
In the spotlight
Wines of the week
Letters to the Editor
COUNTRY LIFE DECEMBER 30
The worst possible timing
Judge a statue by its founder
The way we were • Photographs from the COUNTRY LIFE archive
John McEwen comments on Madonna di Senigallia
Murder in the cathedral • Thomas Becket, the Archbishop of Canterbury, was famously murdered in Canterbury Cathedral exactly 850 years ago. John Goodall revisits this brutal event and considers its consequences
If the wig fits • Rugby boys in dresses, bankers in tights, aristocrats in full Mars and Venus regalia: why do we Britons shed all inhibitions in the face of fancy dress, asks Kit Hesketh-Harvey
An Irish inferno • Between 1919 and 1923, in the War of Independence and the subsequent civil war, nearly 300 country houses were burned in Ireland. To mark the centenary of the events, Terence Dooley re-appraises the motives behind this destruction
Spotlight on staycations
The big picture
In his tracks
Just go, you deserve it • Rosie Paterson suggests where to go and what to do next year
Natalie Jones, founder of lifestyle shop and B&B Caro Somerset
James Bell, co-founder of Turquoise Holiday Company
In the know
Take to the road
Where to stay
A home from home
Ask the expert George Morgan Grenville, founder and CEO of Red Savannah
Keep it familial
If you go down to the jungle today • On a trip to Africa’s self-proclaimed safest country, John Goodall finds a Rwanda free from the grip of its turbulent past and comes face-to-face with two of its most astonishing and heavily protected residents
At a glance: John’s itinerary
The top 10 • From grande dames to brand-new boltholes and everything in between, COUNTRY LIFE rounds up the hotels and villas that should be top of your wishlist in 2021
Ask the expert Henry Cookson, polar explorer and founder of Cookson Adventures
To the beach • Step into the sun with Hetty Lintell’s edit of eternally chic accessories
Go with the tide • Nigel Tisdall falls for northern India aboard a luxury river cruise on the country’s greatest sacred river
At a glance: Nigel’s itinerary
What to do
Where to stay
Hardback to backpack • Friends of COUNTRY LIFE recount the novels and films that have inspired them to travel
How to do it
Where to eat
How to do it
Where to stay
Where to eat
Parental guidance • Gap years no longer mean saying goodbye to your offspring for months at a...