Country Life

Published by TI Media Limited 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 Theodora Briggs • Theodora leads the European Fixed Income and Private Markets capital introduction efforts for Morgan Stanley. She is the daughter of Melissa and the late Albert Briggs of Edgehill, Oxfordshire, and is engaged to Edward McGovern, whom she will wed in London next October.

We need to encourage restoration

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Town & Country

Town & Country Notebook

Stuff & nonsense

Letters to the Editor

Self-regulation doesn’t inspire trust

Athena • Cultural Crusader

Budget blues? • With Chancellor Rachel Reeves’s Autumn Budget looming and rumours abounding as to what might be announced, countryside and heritage organisations reveal what they are hoping to hear to fix the turmoil–and what they are dreading

My favourite painting Charlotte Lloyd-Webber

Country-house treasures

A labour of love • A heroic restoration project has transformed a house left neglected for more than 50 years. It has also illuminated its remarkable history, as John Goodall explains

The legacy • Sir Joseph Bazalgette and the London sewers

Compounding errors • The partial demolition of the shell of a Wren church in the 1970s is not an excuse for further mistreatment by the City of London authorities, argues Ptolemy Dean

Howards’ end • This celebrated Mausoleum is a dynastic monument to the Howard family, as Christopher Ridgway explains. It needs further restoration if it is to survive

Slippery customers • The mysterious eel, with its ability to dive deeper than a nuclear submarine and complete a mammoth migration, is a symbol of a vanishing world and deserves to be revered, says Laura Parker

Waxing lyrical • The gentle flicker of a naked flame dancing with the shadows cast at night has sparked creative minds through the ages, writes Laura Parker

In fullbloom • Jewel-toned florals are both decadent and joyous, believes Amie Elizabeth White

The designer’s room • Guy Goodfellow removed an internal wall to transform the sitting room of this Georgian terrace

Born-again classics • A new generation is reinventing the ingredients of classic decoration, says Giles Kime

A true gentleman lets his hair down

The beautiful south • The late arrival onto the market of three mouth-watering Hampshire houses–one fringing the heavenly Beaulieu River and two in Austen country–can help to banish those November blues

On the short list(ed) • Owning listed properties means stepping into centuries of craftsmanship and character, plus, perhaps, a few quirks, but buyers who truly love history wouldn’t have it any other way

Past masters • Mary Keen visits Garden & Wood, the mecca for dedicated gardeners who prefer using tools made in the 1940s

The bare truth

Kitchen garden cook Parsnips

The last dance • England are taking Bazball to Australia. Will it stand up to a rigorous examination by our Antipodean cousins, or will it be another six weeks of humiliation? James Fisher is feeling hopeful

Don’t be an amber gambler • There are few rules so instilled in the British psyche as those of the traffic light, says Rob Crossan, as he explores the history of this...