About Us

Who we are

Country Life magazine was first published on January 8, 1897 — Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee year — under the exacting eye of its founding editor, Edward Hudson. Advertisements cluttered the front page — they were not confined to the inside until 1941 — the Frontispiece was a middle-aged Earl of Suffolk and the articles covered a remarkably wide range of topics, from the rules of Association Football, to, rather more expectedly, the country house. Its success was instant.

And in February 2025, we expanded our online offering, reaching an ever-growing Country Life audience in the process.

As well as property, we cover the best bits of the British countryside, from country house hotels to dogs and the people who live and work in it, cultural events of interest — at home and abroad — interiors, gardens, cars and all things style. We move in time with the seasons — who isn’t buoyed by the ritual sight of snowdrops, signalling the first days of Spring — believe in having fun, and like to bring you stories you likely can’t find anywhere else, written by leading and emerging voices.

We are a guardian of the past and a blueprint for the future.

Welcome to Country Life.

Contact Country Life

Address: Future Publishing Ltd, 121-141, Westbourne Terrace, Paddington, London W2 6JR

Subscriptions: For subscribers in need of customer services, please email help@magazinesdirect.com

Letters to the editor: To submit a letter to the editor for publication, email countrylife.letters@futurenet.com

Click here to contact individual members of the team

Advertise in Country Life

To advertise in the magazine, website or social media channels, contact our advertisement director kate.barnfield@futurenet.com, or see our separate page on how to advertise in Country Life.

Social Media

Instagram: @countrylifemagazine

Facebook: www.facebook.com/CountryLifeMagazine

TikTok: @countrylifemag

Twitter / X: @countrylifemag

Linkedin: @country-life-mag

The Country Life editorial team

Editor-in-Chief Mark Hedges

Editor’s PA/Editorial Assistant Amie Elizabeth White

Deputy Editor & Acting Property Editor Kate Green

Managing & Features Editor Paula Minchin

Architectural Editor John Goodall

Gardens Editor Tiffany Daneff

Executive Editor and Interiors Giles Kime

Art and Antiques Editor Carla Passino

Acting Deputy Features Editor Agnes Stamp

Acting Assistant Features Editor Emma Hughes

Lifestyle Editor Will Hosie

Luxury Editor Hetty Lintell

Head of Design Dean Usher

Senior Art Editor Emma Earnshaw

Deputy Art Editor Heather Clark

Senior Designer Ben Harris

Picture Editor Lucy Ford

Deputy Picture Editor Emily Anderson

Chief Sub-Editor Octavia Pollock

Senior Sub-Editor Stuart Martel

Sub-Editor Clifford Hope

Digital Director Toby Keel

Digital Content Director and Travel Editor Rosie Paterson

Digital Commissioning Editor James Fisher

Digital Writer Lotte Brundle

Social Media Editor Florence Allen

Property Correspondent Penny Churchill

Why trust Country Life?

For 125 years, Country Life has been the voice of the countryside in Britain, celebrating the best of our glorious island's rural space — but also celebrating the finer things about life in our towns and cities. We always use the best expert writers in their fields, whether property, nature, food or more, and have won countless awards over the past few years — not least the top prize at the Oscars of the magazine industry, the PPA Magazine of the Year award.

Country Life is a member of the Independent Press Standards Organisation (which regulates the UK’s magazine and newspaper industry). We abide by the Editors’ Code of Practice and are committed to upholding the highest standards of journalism. If you think that we have not met those standards and want to make a complaint please contact mark.hedges@futurenet.com. If we are unable to resolve your complaint, or if you would like more information about IPSO or the Editors’ Code, contact IPSO on 0300 123 2220 or visit www.ipso.co.uk

Country Life is part of Future PLC. We are both fiercely committed to protecting your privacy. Please have a look at our in-depth privacy policy to find out more.

Affiliate & Advertising Disclosure

We are committed to helping you find the best products and services for your needs and connecting you with trustworthy retailers where you can purchase them at competitive prices. Within our editorial content, we sometimes provide links to products and services on retailer sites for which we can receive compensation – called an affiliate fee – if you click on those links or make purchases through them. That affiliate fee is paid to us by the retailer and does not directly affect the price you pay for the product or service.

Our expert editorial teams are independent. This means the products and services they select to appear in our articles are chosen based on their unbiased, expert judgement and relevance to the readers' needs and article content. While our editors may be informed by commercial insights to understand the market, our goal is always to provide independent, objective, valuable and useful advice to our readers.

Our curated product widgets that you see in some of our articles are intended to help you find the best products and services, at competitive prices, at trusted retailers. Those widgets are powered by our own software, called Hawk, which displays the latest product and price information from thousands of retailers. We will always do our best to ensure that we display the most up-to-date information possible. On occasion, a retailer may have updated their prices, up or down, before the adverts displayed by Hawk are updated. Retailers may also add delivery or other costs to the purchase – please see the retailer's site for more information. The affiliate fees we receive help us to continue developing Hawk as well as helping to pay our teams and other website costs.

We also run advertising in various forms. Ads on our websites are designed in a way that makes them clearly identifiable as ads and distinguishable from our editorial articles.

From time to time, we also publish paid-for editorial content on the site. This content is labelled so you can see who has funded it and how it was created. We have a full guide to content funding on countrylife.co.uk here. You can also see the full terms and conditions that apply to your use of our sites right here.