Country Life 6 October 2021
Country Life 6 October 2021 reveals the winners of the Georgian Group Awards, launches a poetry competition and celebrates neighbourhood restaurants.


LOVE YOUR LOCAL: Little is more cheering than being greeted with a smile at a neighbourhood restaurant. They need us, too, says Emma Hughes.
GORGEOUS GEORGIANS: John Goodall reveals the winners of the Georgian Group Awards.
POETRY COMPETITION: We invite entries to the Country Life Nature-themed poetry competition, as Tim Relf looks at the importance of rural poets.
DANCING: Poussin’s work is full of balletic grace, says Matthew Dennison.
LONDON LIFE: The new office scene, the city’s villages, what’s on this winter, Petroc Trelawney and the grand revival of Claridge’s ballroom.
MY FAVOURITE PAINTING: The Marchioness of Northampton’s favourite painting is an unworldly landscape.
CARLA CARLISLE: Carla Carlisle savours a cup of coffee and counts her blessings.
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MASTERPIECE: The Winslow Boy by Terence Rattigan includes one of theatre’s most memorable scenes, explains Jack Watkins.
MARK GIROUARD: The keeper of the architectural flame? John Goodall talks to eminent historian Dr Mark Girouard.
ARCHITECTURE: The Theatre Royal Drury Lane, London WC2, has been splendidly revived, reveals Simon Thurley.
INTERIORS: All paints bright and colourful.
And much more
Country Life is unlike any other magazine: the only glossy weekly on the newsstand and the only magazine that has been guest-edited by HRH The King not once, but twice. It is a celebration of modern rural life and all its diverse joys and pleasures — that was first published in Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee year. Our eclectic mixture of witty and informative content — from the most up-to-date property news and commentary and a coveted glimpse inside some of the UK's best houses and gardens, to gardening, the arts and interior design, written by experts in their field — still cannot be found in print or online, anywhere else.
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The National Gallery rehang: 'It is a remarkable feat to hang more with the feeling of less', but the male gaze is still dominant
Almost everything on display at the National Gallery has been moved — and paintings never previously seen brought out — in one of the the biggest curatorial changes in the Gallery's history.
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Lutyens's last masterpiece comes up for sale in Oxfordshire, with 27 bedrooms and a cricket pitch
Middleton Park in Middleton Stoney is a vast country home that must surely be among the nation's best