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- August 12th
- August 11th
- Fowey good indeed: Six homes for sale on one of Cornwall's most beautiful stretches of water
- Do you know your Famous Five from your Secret Seven? Find out in the Country Life Quiz of the Day, August 11, 2026
- How to introduce colour and comfort to a traditional farmhouse
- Country Life August 12, 2026
- Touchscreens are a window into a hell of our own making
- A home that brings modern luxury to a castle built by one of the heroes of Agincourt
- Athena: The best stage for contemporary art is inside our historic houses and gardens
- August 10th
- Get your head in the clouds with the Country Life Quiz of the Day, August 10, 2026
- A beautiful house in one of the Cinque Ports that appeared in Country Life in 1997 is back on the market
- The great Tudor hall that housed the guillotine probably used on Marie Antoinette
- British wool is booming, but where are all the sheep?
- What is everyone talking about this week: 'Tis the summer of the rural romp-fest. Meet the new Jilly Coopers responsible
- August 9th
- The Bentley Bentayga Speed is Britain's biggest muscle car — and probably its best
- 'Her "wellness ecosystem" more resembles a members' club than pet care': Five ways to spoil your dogs with ultimate luxury
- Five charming country homes, from an Oxfordshire cottage to a grand Yorkshire mansion, as seen in Country Life
- If this drought has one upside, it's that it's revealed many of our landscape's long lost treasures
- Scarborough: How the 'queen of spas' created the modern seaside town
- August 8th
- A 400-year-old cottage for sale with vivid and bohemian interiors that are, quite literally, works of art
- The ultimate shapeshifters: There's more to clouds than meets the eye
- Sir Nicholas Coleridge: ‘I went to Prince Andrew's 21st birthday party disguised as a chauffeur’
- 'If you garden like this, it is almost impossible to get help — it’s more akin to doing a painting or an embroidery': The exotic and wonderful Copper House garden in Kent
- 'If there is a European hotel with more magical swim spots then I have yet to find it': Stay on the private island of the man behind the world’s favourite pastis
- August 7th
- Marilyn Monroe's iconic house in Palm Springs is up for sale. Whether she actually lived there is an entirely different question
- One billion years old and the rarest colour of them all: A five minute guide to the pink diamond
- 'Yes, it was awful, but there was also so much love': Francis Bacon and George Dyer at the Edinburgh Fringe
- A beautiful home on the medieval green next to one of Britain's greatest cathedrals
- Why centuries of superstitions cast this bird as a villain and an omen of ill fortune
- August 6th
- One of the world's finest polo estates for sale, with pristine pitches, a string of houses, and space for 120 horses
- Can you finish the proverb? Try your luck in the Country Life Quiz of the Day, August 6, 2026
- The RA's Summer Exhibition is a lightning rod for artistic arguments
- 'Stately, spacious and much more enjoyable': The RHS garden show that outdoes Chelsea
- Country Life's heatwave winners and losers. Spoiler alert: it's good news for tomatoes
- 'I wake up and still can’t quite believe that I live here': Sophie Conran on her first house in the country
- August 5th
- Why don't more people know about the Bodmin-born horologist who helped put Britain — quite literally — on the map?
- Where in the world is the Country Life Quiz of the Day, August 5, 2026?
- No shirt, no shoes, no respect: Well dressed and well-behaved tourists only, please
- The 300-year-old bookcases in a Devon castle that's been in the same family for 600 years
- Tickled pink: Fill up your glass this summer because English rosé wine is a revelation
- August 4th
- A 500-year-old house with four-poster beds, stables and its own cider orchard
- Name that decade in the Country Life Quiz of the Day, August 4, 2026
- 'We cracked the padlock and found a mountainful of asbestos, so that wasn't ideal': The secret spaces in our finest country houses
- Country Life August 5, 2026
- The Glovebox: Not even British Leyland can resist the luxury of Lunaz
- A 700-year-old home where ancient stone and timber meets a gazebo and a hot tub
- From Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to T.S Eliot: London Library's most literary members go digital
- August 3rd
- Fall in love with the Country Life Quiz of the Day, August 3, 2026
- The Old Vicarage is for sale in the Cotswolds valley made famous by 'Cider with Rosie'
- The British-born designer selling upcycled Hermès beach towels to America’s wealthiest women
- This remarkable timbered home was preserved for 300 years — and then flattened by a earl
- What is everyone talking about this week: Is octopus on the menu in Britain? And more to the point, should it be?
- August 2nd
- August 1st
- A 1,000-year-old Cotswolds estate for sale, with a Grade II*-listed mansion, 190,000 sq ft and its own deer park
- What do Adele, the Olympic Games and National Theatre have in common? Monumental set designs by one of Britain's best multidisciplinary artists
- Reeta Chakrabarti: ‘Some journalists put themselves at the centre of the story. I don’t think you should’
- Cancel your safari because Earth's greatest wildlife experiences take place beneath the surface of the ocean
- 'Mystery, subtle magic, and strange, elusive charm which must be felt but cannot wholly be understood': The exquisite Italianate gardens of Renishaw Hall
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