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 Emily Graham-Campbell • Emily works in retail strategy. She is engaged to Henry Laing, whom she will marry at St Mary’s Cathedral, Glasgow, next April, and is the daughter of Robert and Henrietta Graham-Campbell of Hamilton, South Lanarkshire.

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Let sleeping cows lie

Athena • Cultural Crusader

My favourite painting John Gilhooly

A tale of transformation • In the first of two articles, John Goodall looks at the creation of a Georgian lodge and its Edwardian transformation at the hands of a local architect into a luxurious home

The legacy • Denys Watkins-Pitchford (‘BB’) and rural writing

Nature and nurture • Our schools can–and must–lead the way in teaching the next generation the incalculable value of the natural world, contends Roger Morgan-Grenville

The hounds of love • Gentle, soulful and elegant, greyhounds inspire unending devotion among their many admirers–not least Dame Jilly Cooper and Twiggy–discovers Katy Birchall

One pine day • The pine marten may have a taste for jam sandwiches, but its razor-sharp claws and appetite for eggs and grey squirrels makes it a predatory force to be reckoned with, says Patrick Galbraith

Gettin’ piggy with it • As he coaxes a galumphing porcine up to her summer abode on a bright July morning, John Lewis-Stempel considers whether it was an uphill struggle or simply a pig of a day

If you see Sid, tell him • With a penchant for puns worthy of Punch, Neil Patterson, ad man-turned-angler, is as sharp as a fox in a world of piscatorial piffle-peddlers

‘Though she be but little, she is fierce’ • Scourge of the bird feeder and a master of ‘shock and awe’ assassinations, the sparrowhawk pursues its quarry with such tenacity and unpredictability that it often blindsides its prey

Game for anything • With The Game Fair this weekend, dress the part with Hetty Lintell’s selection of the finest country accessories

Full steam ahead • Acres of gleaming brass, piercing whistles and history come alive: traction-engine rallies are a gloriously British summer celebration attended by hundreds of thousands of steam devotees, says James Hamilton

And so to bed… • Forget the standard double: country-house sleeping arrangements have undergone all sorts of intriguing (and eyebrow-raising) shifts throughout history, observes Melanie Cable-Alexander

Modern grandeur • Four-poster beds aren’t for historic houses alone. A new generation of designers is using them to create a pared-back contemporary look, finds Arabella Youens

Eastern promise • These three East Anglian houses include a medieval moated manor once owned by the inspiration for Shakespeare’s Falstaff, the home of a sculptor and a converted watermill

Tales from the riverbank • These houses with fishing rights would make great catches for keen anglers, says Arabella Youens

A blank canvas • With many viewpoints and changes of level, this was not an easy site on which to make a garden, but key to its success, writes Caroline Donald, has been enlarging the pond and creating long...