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.

Mrs Lily Moross • Lily is the founder and chief executive of the brand LilyEve in New York, US, which weaves new clothes out of second-hand luxury fabrics, such as Hermès beach towels. She is the daughter of Graham and Emma Clempson of New York City, US.

1066 and all that

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My favourite painting Michael Whitehall

The legacy Mary Anning and palaeontology

Country-house treasures

Majesty reborn • A bold attempt to reconstruct the early-12th-century interiors of this hugely ambitious Norman palace has paid off, as Edward Impey explains

What did the Normans ever do for us? • A great deal, says Jason Goodwin, who takes a closer look at the ways the conquerors fundamentally changed the character of England and, by extension, the world

Walk on the wild side • Plagues of toads, bands of robbers and ‘remarkable’ eagles were no match for Britain’s first great travel writer, discovers Nicholas Crane, as he follows in the footsteps of Gerald of Wales

Architecture as power • Within a century of William the Conqueror’s victory at Hastings in 1066, the Normans had transformed the architectural face of England with churches and castles. They built extensively in timber, but are known for their monumental work in stone. John Goodall examines their legacy

Strip search • If the formation of strip lynchets keeps you up at night, you are in good company, assures John Wright, as he solves his first countryside mystery of a new series

That sinking feeling • The treacherous lure of quivering quicksand has haunted our nightmares for thousands of years and even appears on the Bayeux Tapestry, discovers Harry Pearson

You little cracker • Enjoyed by the Romans and a post-prandial Victorian treat, the Kentish cobnut is no longer a faded memory–it’s showing signs of a resurgence, declares Susan Low

Luxury In season

Brown in town • Earthy tones are endlessly versatile and can be fun, proves Amie Elizabeth White

Bathing beauties • Elegant fittings and finds for the bathroom, selected by Amelia Thorpe

Property news

Bathroom envy • It’s time to take the plunge and buy a home where bog-standard bathrooms don’t exist and where bathtime is as grand as the house that surrounds the rolltop

London Life • Your indispensable guide to the capital

Need to know

Pops of colour • Will Hosie finds seven homes that refuse to play by the rules and forbid any ‘greige’

A tale of two riverbanks • As autumn beckons in the Docklands, Gio Fio reflects on what two neighbouring, yet contrasting areas on the Thames’s northern flank say about London’s knack for reinvention

Out on the prairie • Swathes of American prairie plants are being trialled at Kew Wakehurst in an effort to search for drought-tolerant species for our gardens. Charles Quest-Ritson reports

Save our seeds • Until the early 19th century, we collected the seeds from our gardens to plant the following year. Adam Alexander, also known as the Seed Detective,...