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First look: We've got the need, the need for the Country Life tweed -
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These famous faces were all born in the 10th month of the year, but how much more do you know about them? Find out in the Country Life Quiz of the Day, October 28, 2026 -
'Daunting, liberating and exhilarating': Alan Titchmarsh on the move 'that's given me a new lease of life' -
I’m just the blue door from Notting Hill, standing in front of a house, asking you to buy me -
You don't need to climb one of the world's most dangerous mountains to conquer it — just look at these paintings instead -
Why did the tradition of home seed saving go out of fashion? -
The Country Life Quiz of the Day, October 27, wants to know what came first
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'Flowers were used to communicate sentiments too intimate or improper to say out loud': The forgotten Victorian tradition of floriography -
Find out which Country Life cover star has triumphed in the battle of the banknotes — and who we actually wanted to win -
Hanhart just made 300 of Steve McQueen's favourite pilot's watch, in super-strong horse leather -
Why build a new country house? There's a long list of things you'll gain if you can live without that lovely patina of age -
'As dangerous as possible — the best way to be’: Political satirist Ralph Steadman on cartoons and working with Hunter S. Thompson -
A four-storey wall of water off Cornwall? Meet the Cribbar -
Agatha Christie bought and sold homes like she was playing real-life Monopoly — and one of her favourites has come up for sale -
The ghost stations of the London Underground
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I’m just the blue door from Notting Hill, standing in front of a house, asking you to buy me -
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An architect turned this South London railway arch into a family home — and it's 'like an Escher drawing come to life' -
The home and studio of one of America's greatest-ever painters is for sale -
A sprawling estate and handsome farmhouse near London with a 'Game of Thrones'-style driveway -
Five grand rural homes, from £850,000 to £8,500,000, as seen in Country Life -
The unlisted 'Elizabethan' manor with a Union Jack rose garden — where Shakespeare might have got married -
'Buildings are living, breathing things — we have to make them fit for people and the planet': Passivhaus ideas are transforming the medieval city of Oxford
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The long-lost mini mansion where one of Victorian England’s greatest ever rags-to-riches stories played out -
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'It is hard to imagine a more perfect realisation of Baillie Scott’s ideal of domestic harmony': The story of Church Rate Corner in Cambridge -
This Victorian abbey was so magnificent that Country Life mourned it twice -
Home Farm, Hartforth: The perfect marriage of sophisticated tastes and a great architect 'at the height of his powers' -
'Justice, Honour and Humanity': A trophy commemorating bravery in the face of a shipwreck -
Immortalised in 'Poldark' and ravaged by fire: Cornwall's first modern manor house -
Admiring the Admiralty: The grand building erected on Whitehall when Britain still ruled the waves -
How sheep farming transformed the architectural face of the Cotswolds
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Marxist, maker and maverick: The curious contradictions of Britain's best textile designer -
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Desk appeal: How to create an inspiring office by Britain’s leading interior designers -
'Having learnt the rules, he set out to break them': the legacy of David Hicks -
Our favourite new-season paints and wallpapers to refresh any room -
The best specialist companies in Britain for country-house renovations -
Bring back the scullery: The forgotten rooms of historic country houses -
The gorgeous collection of one of the founding fathers of English Country House style is up for sale -
How to rebuild an old house and make it a modern marvel, using most of its original materials
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'Daunting, liberating and exhilarating': Alan Titchmarsh on the move 'that's given me a new lease of life' -
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Why did the tradition of home seed saving go out of fashion?
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'Ornamental, colourful and filled with good ideas': A glowing autumnal garden in Yorkshire -
'Gardeners don't get discouraged. If we lose a plant, we look for an even better one to replace it. It's the triumph of hope over experience' -
'A garden that dazzles by its colour and orderly perfection': Highnam Court's 30-year labour of love -
How can anything so small be so bewitching? The huge joys of the tiny cyclamen
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First look: We've got the need, the need for the Country Life tweed -
Justine Picardie: The 11th Duke of Devonshire and Elsa Schiaparelli had much more in common than you might think -
Rolls-Royce Spectre II: Can you perfect perfection? -
Before the pocket-size Pomeranian charmed Marie-Antoinette, it pulled sledges and guarded livestock
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Alpacalypse now: The Peruvian camelids conquering the countryside -
A four-storey wall of water off Cornwall? Meet the Cribbar
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Following in the footsteps of our prehistoric ancestors on a 5,000-year-old trackway
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The life and times of the artist behind one of the most reproduced works of art -
Historic haul of Lord Nelson's letters will head to auction -
Ronnie Wood has many muses, but his favourite is Jimi Hendrix -
From harem to hammam: How the Turks transformed Britain
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You don't need to climb one of the world's most dangerous mountains to conquer it — just look at these paintings instead -
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Pack your thermals, a super El Niño could redraw the American ski map -
The former hedonistic hideaway of an Italian duchess is 'something close to hotel nirvana' -
I went to John Lewis and I bought a sofa and a holiday: The return of the real-life travel agent -
The critics need to understand that there is a cruise for everyone — when it comes to exploring the high seas, the smaller the better -
I went to the French village that throws a big party for a flying donkey every year
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Pour me a poitín: The moonshine running through the veins of every Irishman -
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Are we paying too much for food? -
‘I got this recipe from someone I know': Eight years before he served it at the Omani State Banquet, The King revealed his favourite food to Country Life -
The veal thing: Tom Parker Bowles on why a true schnitzel should be the size of your plate -
Love at first bite? In Paris, the only thing they take more seriously than fashion is the macaron -
Britain's 'bad boy chef' is ready to take a bite out of the Big Apple -
It's not all doom and gloom for British farmers — just ask the winemakers
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