Country Life

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 Coco Brocklehurst and Ms Annika Purdey • Annika, of Sussex, sits on the James Purdey & Sons board as a non-executive director and is a contributing editor to Tatler. Her daughter, Coco, recently graduated from Newcastle University, where she read Geography.

The Seven Stages of (gentle)Man

Country Life

The original rebels

Town & Country Notebook

Letters to the Editor

A Budget of betrayal

Athena • Cultural Crusader

My favourite painting Emma Ridgway

The Sound and the Fury • Fanfare for the Common Man

Nine towers on high • The exceptional power enjoyed by Earls of Derby under the Tudors and Stewarts was reflected in their great northern houses, as John Martin Robinson explains

The legacy John McCrae and poppies

A life lived, a dream dreamt • Memorials to those lost in the First World War can cloud the fact that each name represents a man’s life. The inscriptions they left behind, however, recall them as individuals, says David Crossland

Are you feeling Broad-minded? • A strange, amphibious land floating somewhere between earth and sky, East Anglia’s majestic wetlands remind us that our ancestors made arcadias in these isles, says John Lewis-Stempel

Whispers of winter • The tease of an Indian summer can’t deny the frosty kiss in the air, says Lia Leendertz

Conversations on conservation • The 1974 revolution in attitudes towards country houses proved a turning point in Britain’s treatment of its old buildings generally and the saviour of places such as Covent Garden, says Simon Jenkins

Digging for victory and veg • Damp, dimly lit and cramped they may have been, yet Anderson shelters were lifesavers during the Second World War. Russell Higham explores their legacy

Fake it ’til you make it • A whiff of rotting flesh, the flash of a painted eye, a dead-faint to the floor: Nature is full of cunning survival tricks, says Laura Parker, as she explores its greatest mimics and frauds

GENTLEMAN’S LIFE

Somewhere between bereavement and bingo • A wardrobe consisting of the perfect balance of colour, character and joie de vivre might be hard to achieve, but is worth striving for. Simon Mills finds out how it’s done

Singing the blues • Blue is always in style, says Hetty Lintell of the classic colour that suits all

The rise and fall • Dictated not only by fashion, but also by a gentleman’s changing body shape, the waistband has traversed the highs and the lows, reports Matthew Dennison

Zest for life • Add a splash of colour this season with some rusty orange, says Hetty Lintell

’Tache, bang, wallop • If you’ve joined the ranks of the decorated top lip this November, be aware that, much as it separates the face, the moustache continues to divide opinion, says Harry Pearson

How green you are • Embrace the envy with these beautiful green accessories, encourages Hetty Lintell

Masterpieces in miniature • Rare metiers d’art timepieces are more than mere conversation starters. They are a joy to behold and the craftspeople at the top are as sought after as the highest-paid rock stars, explains Nicholas Foulkes

Brown in town • Autumn’s best friend, brown is...