Here's a look at some of what you'll find inside.
Our green and pleasant land
Our eyes can detect more of its shades than any other colour and its many hues are bound up with everything from jealousy to British racing cars—it’s all gone green for Lucien de Guise
It’s a bullseye
‘Life is merrier when you live with a bull terrier’ owners tell Katy Birchall as she delves into the kindly and comic character beneath the muscular frame
Showing the way
Goodwill and gardening go hand in hand at the ‘beautifully formed’ Royal Windsor Flower Show—and Alan Titchmarsh wouldn’t miss it for the world
First to fall
Rex Whistler refused to leave fighting the Second World War to ‘young boys’, but his courage and leadership was to cost him his life, as Allan Mallinson reveals
Lyndon Farnham’s favourite painting
The Jersey chief minister picks a work that encapsulates the island’s spirit and determination
‘Most costly and church-wise’
In the second of two articles, John Goodall investigates the 17th-century expansion that provided Lincoln College, Oxford, with a quite outstanding chapel
The legacy
Music will ring around the Royal Albert Hall again this summer thanks to Henry Wood and his Proms, reveals Octavia Pollock
All The King’s Whales and all The Queen’s dolphins
With more species around our shores than anywhere else in northern Europe, Ben Lerwill keeps his eyes peeled for porpoises, whales and dolphins
The good stuff
Hetty Lintell shells out on fine jewellery that is sure to impress
A stitch in time
Debo Devonshire’s love of chic, chickens and Chatsworth in Derbyshire is celebrated in a new exhibition, discovers Kim Parker
Interiors
Giles Kime explores large-scale wallpaper capable of transport-ing you to a whole new world
Country Life International
- Jersey earns royal approval
- Antonia Windsor marks 150 years of La Corbière lighthouse
- Paul Henderson spices up his life with Jersey’s East Asian cuisine
- Nick Hammond brews his own island tea
- Holly Kirkwood picks the best properties for sale
Over the hills and far away
Tiffany Daneff marvels at the spectacular views that have been restored at the Old Rectory at Preston Capes, Northamptonshire
Kitchen garden cook
Crunchy fennel is a summer highlight for Melanie Johnson
Time for some merriment
Michael Billington is royally entertained as Shakespeare receives a modern, mirth-filled twist in Stratford and London
And much more
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Brockfield Hall, the great Yorkshire house that's gone from Regency mansion to modern family homeBrockfield Hall in North Yorkshire is the family home of Charlie Wood and Hatta Byng, editor of House & Garden, who have transformed it since they came here in 2020, winning multiple awards in the process. John Martin Robinson reports on the restoration project that revived this compact Regency house as a modern family home. Photographs by Paul Highnam for Country Life.
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Barbour’s heritage jackets get a floral makeover courtesy of ErdemUtilitarian outwear has taken the fashion world by storm and now Britain's world-famous wax jackets are getting in on the act, inspired by some of our greatest countryside icons.
