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 Freda Lewis-Stempel • Freda is a motoring reporter for MailOnline, specialising in electric cars and sustainable vehicle technology. She is the daughter of John and Penelope Lewis-Stempel. Mr Lewis-Stempel is a regular contributor to COUNTRY LIFE.

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Athena • Cultural Crusader

My favourite painting The Duke of Richmond • Racehorses Exercising at Goodwood by George Stubbs

Three wishes for food and farming • Royal hedge planting, the terrible toll on Ukrainian farming and a maiden speech

Nature and nurture • In this final article in a series of three, Tim Richardson looks at the innovative and superbly maintained 18th-century landscape garden of Bramham

The legacy • John Ritchie Findlay and NPG Scotland

A man among men • What makes a master? Beloved of the commercial art world, handled warily by art historians, the word has long been opaque. Michael Prodger investigates its many meanings–and discovers that being male confers an unfair advantage

Let the art rule the head • Despite being a world leader in everything from jewellery to fashion and music, the UK is failing to nurture creativity at school and in regional centres. Tristram Hunt, director of the V&A Museum, calls for an urgent review

Let’s fall in love • Birds do it, bees do it, even educated fleas do it. Laura Parker finds that, when it comes to creatures mating for life, persistence, patience and a little dad dancing are key to success

Beauty and the blimp • Inflammable airships may be gone, but a new hybrid aircraft, capable of delivering eco-friendly aviation, is set to take to the skies with a bang, finds Charles Harris

You’re in luck • With the Cheltenham Festival next month, bring luck to your day’s racing by wearing one of Hetty Lintell’s selection of horseshoe jewels

The designer’s room • Glasshouse supremo Alitex drew on its expertise to create a space that seamlessly blends with a listed house in Kent

Glazed expressions • Orangeries, garden rooms and greenhouses, selected by Amelia Thorpe

Seeing the wood for the trees • Scotland’s much-evolved forestry industry has become a focus for clever investors

Fancy a tryst? • Two’s company at these cosy countryside boltholes

Light work • Tiffany Daneff discovers how to transform a typically dark London back garden into a light-filled green haven that is always in use

Trumpets call

Soup-er charged • With alliums in its soul and beef at its heart, bubbling and boozy French onion soup, smothered in a blanket of blistered, burnished cheese, is positively medicinal, declares Tom Parker Bowles

Come on, baby, light my fire • With its glossy orange cap, the ‘little flame with a velvet foot’ is a colourful addition to winter’s mushroom bounty, but don’t confuse it for a funeral bell, warns John Wright

Heart to art • Oskar Reinhart, Switzerland’s Samuel Courtauld and a man so driven that he pursued one painting for 30 years, amassed such an extraordinary collection that it fed two museums. Now, a selection of his works goes on...