All content Archive | June 2025

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June 30th
- A pristine Scottish island for sale at the price of a garage in Fulham
- What everyone is talking about this week: 'There’s always been something alluring about reading in public, now, it comes with bravado'
- Are you a 'frag head'? Country Life Quiz of the Day, June 30, 2025
- Hope from the ashes: This new generation of ash trees is more resistant to dieback
- From the Country Life archive: The 19th century answer to Swingball
June 29th
- 18 beautiful homes, from charming cottages to a Highland mansion with unbeatable views, as seen in Country Life
- '"This things is a beast," he said. "When I say brake, brake." He didn't need to tell me twice': What happened when we sent a Country Life writer to tear round Goodwood in a 200mph Ferrari
- Canine muses: David Hockney's chocolate dachshunds who wanted for only two things — food and love
- 'Meat, ale and guns — what else do you need, bar glorious scenery?': William Sitwell on the Brendon Hills, West Somerset
- 50 years ago, the English country house seemed headed for extinction. Instead it was the start of a new golden age
June 28th
- 'Fences have blocked wildlife corridors, causing the wildebeest migration to collapse from 140,000 individuals to fewer than 15,000': Is the opening of the Ritz-Carlton in Kenya’s Masai Mara National Reserve a cause for celebration or concern?
- ‘I get all twitchy when I see people wearing something that really doesn’t belong’: A watch for every summer occasion
- ‘It has been destroyed beyond repair, not by the effect of gunfire, but by a deliberate act of vandalism’: Britain’s long lost great houses that live on only inside the Country Life archive
- Henry Holland's consuming passions: 'I started my career as the fashion editor of Smash Hits magazine and I am still a pop tart at heart!'
- Listen up puffins, peregrines and seal pups — Big Brother is watching you
- The 'Rose Labyrinth' of Coughton Court, where 200 varieties come together in this world-renowned garden in Warwickshire
June 27th
- 'Comfortable, cosseting and far from the madding crowd': The recently refurbished Cornish cottage that proves Victorian decor is making a comeback
- How to make The Connaught Bar's legendary martini — and a few others
- The flying insect that needs a cuddle? Country Life Quiz of the Day, June 27, 2025
- The pristine and unspoilt English county that 'has all the ingredients of perfection'
- The gorgeous Somerset home of the designer behind one of Glastonbury's chicest spots
- Coco's crush: Chanel's century-long love affair with Britain and its men
June 26th
- The golden eagle: One of the Great British public's favourite birds of prey — but devilishly tricky to identify
- When was the first ever Glastonbury festival? Country Life Quiz of the Day, June 26, 2025
- Gill Meller's tomato, egg, bread and herb big-hearted summer salad
- ‘There are moments of formal dressing where one is humbled by the rules of it all’: A New Yorker tackles Royal Ascot for the first time
- From turtles to pink sea fans: Why Mediterranean marine life is drifting into British waters
June 25th
- A 600-year-old National Trust property that you can call home
- From Summertime to sphagnum: Country Life Quiz of the Day, June 25, 2025
- The extraordinary Exe Estuary, by the Earl whose family have lived here for 700 years
- ‘So old-fashioned, it’s new-fashioned’: Riding the rails on the Belmond Royal Scotsman
- Critics be damned, Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral gets Grade I status on advice from Historic England
- Sophia Money-Coutts: Why clinking glasses and saying ‘Cheers!’ is a tiny bit embarrassing
June 24th
- A wisteria-clad delight with lawns running down to the Thames is the prettiest riverside home for sale in London today
- Britain's prettiest cheese-themed spot: Country Life Quiz of the Day, June 24, 2025
- These rarely-seen images of Glastonbury in the 1980s capture the world’s most famous music festival in its rawest and most magical form
- Corinne Fowler: Exploring the hidden history of the British countryside, one walk at a time
- Country Life 25 June 2025
- Whatever floats your moat: Tower of London's former waterway receives help to adapt to the pressures of climate change
- It's a cruel summer to be a bee with up to 80% of swarms dying if they cannot find a safe place to settle — but here is how you can help
- Why society needs snobs to tell us that 'actually, we've got this terribly wrong'
June 23rd
- Quentin Letts: Heaven in Herefordshire
- Summer Solstice, Roger Federer and battle of the Popes: Country Life Quiz of the Day, June 23, 2025
- What do an order of Catholic priests and actor Hugh Bonneville have in common? They helped this West Sussex sparkling wine triumph over multiple French Champagne houses
- From the Country Life archive: The questionable vacuum caps that promised a 'healthy, vigorous growth of hair'
June 22nd
- Canine muses: The English bull terrier who helped transform her owner from 'a photographer into an artist'
- Five of the most majestic properties for sale in Britain today, from a 1,700-acre estate to a private island, as seen in Country Life
- The successor to the 'most beautiful car of the 20th century' is smooth, comfortable... and ends up highlighting everything that's wrong in car design today
- Richard Rogers: 'Talking Buildings' is a fitting testament to the elegance of utility
- 'This is how the countryside looked to Gilbert White, to Thomas Hardy, even to Shakespeare and Chaucer': The forgotten corner of the world where King Charles has poured his energy into preserving an all-but-extinct way of life
- ‘The perfect hostess, he called her’: A five minute guide to Virgina Woolf’s ‘Mrs Dalloway’
June 21st
- 'It’s not ironic that I really like wasps and that they nearly killed me. It’s simply a coincidence': What to do if you're stung by a wasp
- 'No Yorkshire dale, no Scottish moor, no view from Westminster Bridge can match it': Charles Quest-Ritson on The Itchen Valley, his personal piece of heaven
- The Manner review: This New York hotel is bringing the 1970s back to SoHo, one colour at a time
- Save me: A castle on the Isle of Wight designed by James Wyatt is up for sale
- 'None of this would be here had the tithe barn not burned down that night’: How the terrifying destruction of a medieval landmark sparked the creation of the magnificent gardens of Bledlow Manor
- For every new stone mason, seven retire: St Paul's plan to save heritage crafts — and itself in the process
June 20th
- Horses eating ice cream and buying a last-minute Ascot winner: An evening at Goffs London Sale
- A secret swimming pool at Buckingham Palace? Country Life Quiz of the Day, June 20, 2025
- 'I take a box of watercolours and a sketchpad with me everywhere': Tess Newall's consuming passions
- These are the 10 best places to live in the world — and nowhere in the UK or US made the cut
- The 1,800-acre estate of the man who bought Stonehenge has come up for sale at £25 million
June 19th
- My piece of heaven: The Vale of Belvoir by Lady Violet Manners
- Hen harriers: The 'marvels of evolutionary adaptation' that are 'ballet and theatre and poetry inscribed on air'
- Pirates, prophecy and painting: Country Life Quiz of the Day, June 19, 2025
- 300 laps, thousands of tires, 24 hours of non-stop racing: Up close and personal at Le Mans 2025
- A meticulously restored Scottish estate for sale, dripping with history, character and wildlife
- At His Majesty’s pleasure: A woodland retreat for rent at Sandringham
June 18th
- Richard Mille: The man who went from carving watches out of soap to making timepieces for Rafael Nadal and Lando Norris — and built a £1bn business in the process
- Name that castle, and Robin Hood's day job: Country Life Quiz of the Day, June 18, 2025
- Sir Michael Caine's former home on the Thames is a testament to idyllic living and good taste
- How to stand out from the crowd in the most British of outfits — morning dress
- Death, taxes and Country Life on dogs
- 'When it comes to dating, longer notes are allowed and potentially even encouraged': A modern-day guide to voice notes
June 17th
- White sand beaches, smuggler's coves, teeming wildlife and a ruined castle in a Scottish island that's on the market for the first time in almost a century
- Can you feel the quiz tonight: Country Life Quiz of the Day, June 17, 2025
- Steve Backshall on sharks, quicksand, and getting his fingertips eaten by piranhas
- In pursuit of Nancy: Outrageous star Bessie Carter on bringing the Mitford family to life
- Clare Balding and Andrew Balding's day-by-day guide to Royal Ascot 2025
June 16th
- I wanna quiz like common people: Country Life Quiz of the Day, June 16, 2025
- 'One of the 10 most perfect houses in Britain' has come to the market at £9.5 million
- Arthur Parkinson: When it comes to happy hens and yellow yolks, grass is king
- From the Country Life archive: Yes, that is a Moon Transmitter on London's South Bank
- Homespun wisdom, incontrovertible truths or hackneyed, tired thoughts? A penny for your thoughts on proverbs
June 15th
- 17 outstanding homes for sale across Britain, from under £250k to £6.5 million, as seen in Country Life
- 'We started thinking: if we were going to design a bike for Aston Martin, what would it look like? And then we simply couldn’t stop': Aston's new bike has everything you could ever dream of — except a price tag
- 'The whole house shook. Everything was white. For four months, it felt as if we were on Mars': The story behind one of Hampshire's most breathtaking gardens
- 'I have lost a treasure, such a sister, such a friend as never can have been surpassed': Inside Jane Austen's Winchester home where she penned her final words and drew her final breath
June 14th
- An utterly charming island home in Scotland with gardens so beautiful they made the cover of Country Life
- The legacy of Dad's Army
- 11 golden rules for making a perfect cup of tea
- Myddleton House: The place that 'will help you learn what true gardening is' is open to everyone, and just 30 minutes from central London
- The East African holiday hotspot that should be top of your travel wishlist — and where to stay
June 13th
- Merlins: Britain's smallest bird of prey is a 'swerving, zigzagging, 240mph weighted missile' that's gutsy enough to chase off a golden eagle
- The greatest moment in the life of Jessie Owens: Country Life Quiz of the Day, June 13, 2025
- Soft tones and a sense of place: A Mayfair duplex that breaks the modern mould
- 'These aren't just rooms. They are spaces configured with enormous cunning, artfully combining beauty with functionality': Giles Kime on the wonders of WOW!house 2025
- 'The very best North Yorkshire has to offer': The £25 million Kirkham Estate
- New vision for old Dartmoor: Prince of Wales leads ambitious plans for nature recovery in Cornwall
June 12th
- The deaths of Romeo and Juliet: Country Life Quiz of the Day, June 12, 2025
- How to make Eton mess strawberry blondies
- Ineos Grenadier: What price nostalgia?
- Wakehurst: 500 years of history, 2.4 billion seeds, 500 acres of planting, and scientists who might just save us all
- The reality of 20 years of house price rises in Britain, from the places that have had a charmed life to the spots where it's a struggle to move back home
June 11th
- How the deep-lustre of copper brings period glamour to this kitchen
- England's answer to New York: Country Life Quiz of the Day, June 11, 2025
- A historic Yorkshire hall, meticulously restored to its former 18th-century magnificence
- David Beckham to guest edit Country Life
- Star of the show: Rose of Jericho's paint created just for Country Life at RHS Chelsea
- Couture’s best-kept secret
- Express yourself with colour
- Sophia Money-Coutts: How do you turn down another godchild without causing offence?
June 10th
- Winchester: The ancient city of kings and saints that's one of 21st century Britain's happiest places to live
- The era of the £50 burger and chips is here — and it's a revelation
- Rowing past dreams: An idyllic riverside home with a boathouse, croquet pitch and Olympic pedigree
- Tulip-mania, Travolta v Hanks and the worst-named castle in Britain: Country Life Quiz of the Day, June 10, 2025
- Hannah Bourne-Taylor: Saving swifts, naked protests and the bird that nested in my hair
- Country Life 11 June 2025
- The profitability of agriculture underpins everything in the countryside. Confidence is at rock bottom
June 9th
- A bucolic Sussex home that's 'like stepping into a fairytale', yet just 30 minutes from central London
- Castles, candles and cards: Country Life Quiz of the Day, June 9, 2025
- This obscure and unloved picture that turned out to be Turner's first oil painting — and it's about to sell for 500 times what it last cost
- 'I spent 84 years living in the countryside, and have just moved to a city. Here's what I've discovered.'
- Country Life 4 June 2025
- From the Country Life archive: The St Michael’s Mount Barge long oarsmen
- 'He has 27 camels — and four daughters, too, whom he professes to love almost as much'
June 8th
- Magnificent mansions across the Home Counties, from £3 million to £14 million, as seen in Country Life
- A dozen slices of al fresco inspiration from the best designers in Britain
- The Old House, Dorset: There's beauty up above
- The Wallace Collection announces refurbishment for 125th birthday
June 7th
- Vibrant colours and exquisite taste make this three-bedroom London townhouse sing
- The imperfect science of the perfect martini and where you can get one in London
- What do 32 pigeons, 38 dogs, four horses and one cat have in common? They've all been awarded a Dicken medal, and now you can have one too
- Fields and fashion: Why luxury loves the British countryside
- Forget catnip, it's all about catmint
- 'Victorian magnificence skilfully simplified and distilled': A peek at the restoration of Somerleyton Hall gardens
- Penicuik Estate review: An exclusive use house and cottages for collectors and connoisseurs
June 6th
- All hail fish and chips: Our guide to the nation’s favourite dish, done right
- Lawns, glorious lawns at this Grade II-listed home in Hampshire where a sustainable future meets a storied past
- Ferris Bueller's Ferrari and giraffes getting hit by lightning: Country Life Quiz of the Day, June 6, 2025
- What was Andy Warhol really like? The Newlands House Gallery exhibition shows the artist like never before
- The world’s most iconic handbag could be on your arm
June 5th
- Gill Meller's strawberry, lemon and elderflower meringue
- Tom Cruise's insane stunts, Back to the Future and a power-hungry turtle: Country Life Quiz of the Day, June 5, 2025
- 'A monument to Edwardian excess' that was built by the millionaire industrialist who founded Pinewood Studios
- Alan Titchmarsh: I've tried every slug control known to man, and these are the only things that have ever worked for me
- Goshawks: The birds of prey that came back from extinction
June 4th
- Anne Boleyn's execution, Model T Fords and Boris Johnson's ping pong ding dong: Country Life Quiz of the Day, June 4, 2025
- Quirky ceramics, Carey Mulligan and Greece: Lucy Williams's consuming passions
- Munder-Skiles and the art of exterior decoration
- One of the most spectacular rose gardens in England has come in to bloom two weeks early
- 'The biggest cavities are in the hearts and skulls of politicians': What hope for the swift?
- Sophia Money-Coutts: When is a thank you letter still mandatory and when will a voice note (under a minute, please!) suffice
June 3rd
- Prussia Cove: Shrouded in mystery and romance, this former smugglers' paradise is an isolated idyll
- Elton John's real name and the creator of the red phone box: Country Life Quiz of the Day, June 3, 2025
- A glorious home in a water tower overlooking Suffolk's finest seaside town
- Simon Armitage: 'I've tried getting AI to write poems — and they've all been reassuringly awful'
- 'We need to make a case for more resources': What next for wild camping on Dartmoor
- Society sparkle: Nancy Astor and Ann Fleming’s diamond jewellery makes a splash at auction
June 2nd
- The Cold War test facility that became a beautiful family home — complete with two levels below ground
- Magic Johnson, the Flying Scotsman and the threat of lightning: Country Life Quiz of the Day, June 2, 2025
- 'More of a family member than a car': 50 years of the Volkswagen Polo
- From Scotland to Greenland, Earth Photo 2025's shortlisted works showcase our amazing planet
- Ian Adam-Smith Architects
- A five minute guide to the new V&A East Storehouse’s treasures
- From the Country Life archive: The Maori meeting house in leafy Surrey
June 1st
- Five elegant East Anglian homes for sale, from £1m to £10m, as seen in Country Life
- ‘It's a bit like a pub, but without the requirement of being drunk’: Why we’re all hot for a countryside sauna
- The bow tie: A new statement of counter culture or a 'middle finger around your neck'?
- Stowe Hall and the renaissance of the country house
- Gwithian Towans: A golden sand beach that stretches along the eastern curve of St Ives Bay