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.

Ms Vanshika Goenka Misra • Vanshika is the CEO of British heritage brand Christy and founder of Kool Kanya, a women’s professional networking platform that seeks to address the disparity in opportunities for women in the workplace. She holds a degree in Political Science from Brown University, Rhode Island, US.

Born in the USA

Country Life

Town & Country

Town & Country Notebook

Letters to the Editor

Food authority needs teeth

Athena • Cultural Crusader

My favourite painting Alexia Robinson

‘A well-resorted tavern’ • In the first of two articles, Jeremy Musson looks at the remarkable history and preservation of the country home of America’s first president

The legacy • Laurence Olivier and the National Theatre

Navigating nostalgia • Once the bustling arteries of the Industrial Revolution, today’s British canals are places of tranquillity, joy and community, says Joseph Phelan, as he explores their timeless appeal

Life on the hedge • The modern hedgelayer’s role is no longer that of a fencer, but instead a practical conservationist creating vibrant, thorny arteries of hedgerow habitat, says Richard Negus

Playing fast and loose • Buoyant and brazen, the hard-riding, tough-talking and gun-toting highwaywomen of the 17th and 18th centuries struck fear and awe into the hearts of the nation, discovers Matthew Dennison

Singing the end-of-summertime blues • As September bids a melancholic farewell, John Lewis-Stempel looks to the transformative power of Nature and our agricultural rites and rituals to stave off his regret at summer’s passing for another year

Luxury Notebook

A few of my favourite things • Born in 1978, the British actor grew up in the village of Clyst St Mary, near Exeter in Devon. Famed for his parts in films, such as Brideshead Revisited and The Imitation Game, he appeared as Anthony Armstrong-Jones in Netflix’s The Crown and Henry Talbot in Downton Abbey, as well as in the CBS legal drama The Good Wife. He lives in Surrey with his wife, Sophie, and their three children.

A cut above

The designer’s room • An emerald green silk is the star of this sumptuous bedroom by Guy Goodfellow

Seasonal greens • Furniture and accessories to celebrate this verdant hue, selected by Amelia Thorpe

The West awakes • All is abuzz in the West Country following a recent surge of activity in the market for large farms and country houses in some of the region’s most picturesque locations

Rolling with the changes • In every end is a new beginning, finds Lucy Denton, as she examines the highs and lows of the sale of a country estate, for all parties, including tenants

US SPECIAL • Travel & international property

US Special • News

The new Colossus • Standing proud at the ‘sea-washed, sunset gates’, Lady Liberty became a beacon of hope for immigrants and a symbol of freedom under just and democratic law, finds Charles Harris

Steady as she goes • Fairy-tale palaces that float upon the sea first appeared in the Edwardian era. A century later, the majestic ocean liners of the ‘golden age of travel’ continue to captivate, says Agnes Stamp

Route to the past...