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 Tabitha Stoecker • Tabitha is the 2026 Winter Olympic Champion of the Skeleton’s inaugural mixed team race, together with Matt Weston, and a two-time World Championship silver medallist in the same event. She is the daughter of Alison and the late Jesse Stoecker of Finsbury Park, London.

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Country Life

Last orders? • With margins squeezed as never before, Britain’s rural pubs are fighting an increasingly urgent battle for survival. Charlotte Cooper finds a few who have bucked the trend and staved off the need to call time for good

Town & Country Notebook

Stuff & nonsense

Letters to the Editor

Climate change has arrived

Athena • Cultural Crusader

My favourite painting Sir Michael Moritz

A place to touch the earth • To escape his celebrity and write, T. E. Lawrence created a sequestered home for himself. Michael Hall finds an unlikely hideaway of tins and silver walls

Country-house treasures

John Judkyn and the American Museum in Bath

The end of an age • On July 1, 1916, some 100,000 men went over the top and advanced on the German line: the Battle of the Somme had begun. The 20 weeks of fighting and devastating loss of life that ensued would change the way the British approached warfare forever, says Allan Mallinson

Having a ball off court • Will Hosie meets the unsung heroes of SW19, whose work behind the scenes helps to make the Wimbledon Championships one of the greatest events in sport

Dare to be square • Matthew Dennison uncovers the history of Roman mosaics in Britain and goes looking for the finest examples, featuring a range of motifs from hunting dogs and mythological Gods to elegant knots and circles

Luxury In season

Palm springs • Branch out with a tree-inspired motif, suggests Amie Elizabeth White

The designer’s room • Inspiration for this bedroom in a new London townhouse hotel by Thurstan came from artefacts at the British Museum

Cutting the mustard • Furniture and accessories to pep up any room, selected by Amelia Thorpe

Secrets of the South • From the Roseland peninsula of Cornwall to the High Weald of East Sussex, here are four gloriously distinctive estates newly come to the market

Out of the ordinary • Oozing originality, these distinctive properties stand as refreshing antidotes to modern ‘identikit’ homes

London Life • Your indispensable guide to the capital

London Life Need to know

Hot stuff • Will Hosie flirts with manor houses and alpine-esque ceilings in this month’s report of the city’s properties for sale

Break your fast • Will Hosie has been a breakfast refusenik since he first learnt the joy of lying in. As Londoners flock to breakfast meetings, can he bring himself to join in the fun?

To the lighthouse • Harmony and sympathy with the surroundings are the watchwords in a charming garden nestled between the South Downs and the sea, finds Kathryn Bradley-Hole

Make yourself at home

Kitchen garden cook Apricots

Green party • The ring-necked parakeet’s psychedelic looks have caused a glamorous origin story to grow up around British flocks, but the truth is rather...