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 Emily Frazer • Emily is chief executive of Matchroom Multi Sport, a division that promotes nine-ball pool, snooker and fishing, at sports production and broadcasting company Matchroom. She is the daughter of Ian and Christine Frazer of Croydon, south London.

‘The little things that run the world’

Country Life

Heatwave pushes Britain towards drought

Town & Country Notebook

Stuff & nonsense

Letters to the Editor

Signs of hope

Athena • Cultural Crusader

My favourite painting Vicki Anstey

Country-house treasures

Revival and renewal • In the second of two articles, John Goodall looks at the later development of this great house and a new discovery relating to its outstanding interiors by James Wyatt

Benjamin Britten and culture in Suffolk

All the small things • Be they bioluminescent, possessed of inbuilt violins or builders of Gaudí-esque cathedrals, the insects beneath our feet are worthy of a pause for closer inspection, assures Charles Harris

A room with a clue • Hidden behind concealed doors and brick walls, secret spaces in country houses continue to thrill and spook us in equal measure, finds Deborah Nicholls-Lee

Alders and betters • It may be less widely renowned than its cousin the willow, but Alnus glutinosa has an ancient magic and mystery all of its own, says Vicky Liddell

One for sorrow • The swaggering corvid with the chain-smoker’s rasp carries around centuries’ worth of superstitions. Has the magpie’s reputation been unfairly tarred?

Where there’s a grill, there’s a way • As a warm July evening invites him to spark up his home barbecue, John Lewis-Stempel considers how similar we are to our Neolithic ancestors

Luxury Notebook

A few of my favourite things • Georgia Somerset, Duchess of Beaufort, has been a journalist, Classics teacher and maker of historical documentaries for the BBC. Since 2018, she has run the Badminton estate in Gloucestershire, home of the famous Horse Trials and new RHS Flower Show, with her husband, Harry, 12th Duke of Beaufort. They live at Badminton House with their dogs.

Something to garnish • Colour the summer with jewellery both bold and beautiful

The designer’s room • Bryony Richardson has introduced colour and comfort to a farmhouse in the Channel Islands, to provide somewhere to hunker down in winter

Zest is best • Orange accessories and furniture to refresh any interior, selected by Amelia Thorpe

A class act • All eyes will turn to the Cotswolds this week as, due to the recent closure of Rendcomb College, one of the landmark historical holdings in the area is seeking a new custodian

Spectacular studios • Need room to create? These homes with studios–or buildings with the potential for transformation–offer the perfect canvas for talented artists and artisans

Born to be wild • East Lambrook Manor, where Margery Fish’s exuberant ‘jungle gardening’ style took shape, is flourishing once again under new custodianship, finds Charles Quest-Ritson

A stately pleasure dome

Kitchen garden cook Courgette flowers

Zannier Île de Bendor

The tale of Mr Toad • Frederick Fischer, the...