Country Life 29 October 2025
Country Life's October 29, 2025, issue goes behind the scenes at the House of Commons, celebrates ferrets and makes a case for black pudding.
Here's a look at some of what you'll find inside:
There's no place like home
John Goodall charts the rebirth of the House of Commons, which reopened 75 years ago in the wake of its devastating bombing during the Blitz.
Join the stag party
The antlers of deer are one of the majestic sights of the British countryside. Charles Harris tells their remarkable story from growth through to shedding.
Smooth operators
Octavia Pollock ferrets out the real story about the curious and characterful mustelids with a long sporting heritage.
Go on, then...
Jane Emily Phillips tucks into elevenses with Paddington Bear and Winnie-the-Pooh.
I've got that Friday feelin
Fear of the final day of the working week is one of our oldest superstitions, finds Ian Morton.
Antony Penrose's favourite painting
The Lee Miller Archive and Penrose Collection co-director chooses a fought-over Picasso.
Exquisite houses, the beauty of Nature, and how to get the most from your life, straight to your inbox.
Luxury
Pearls, pens and pottery, with Amie Elizabeth White, and James Middleton's favourite things.
Nice day for a black pudding
Blood sausage is a breakfast staple from Bronze Age days, but it still divides opinion, as Patrick Galbraith discovers.
Country Life is unlike any other magazine: the only glossy weekly on the newsstand and the only magazine that has been guest-edited by His Majesty The King not once, but twice. It is a celebration of modern rural life and all its diverse joys and pleasures — that was first published in Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee year. Our eclectic mixture of witty and informative content — from the most up-to-date property news and commentary and a coveted glimpse inside some of the UK's best houses and gardens, to gardening, the arts and interior design, written by experts in their field — still cannot be found in print or online, anywhere else.
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‘So many of us look at the world through our screens and forget to pay attention to the world outside’: Katy Hessel on the world’s great female artists, why free entry to museums matters and her consuming passionsThe author of ‘The Story of Art Without Men’ speaks to Lotte Brundle about the dangers of AI, how she fell in love with the art world and why it’s okay that her favourite painting is by a male artist.
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A sprawling castle set amid ancient woodland has come to the market for the first time in 150 yearsGyrn Castle, set amidst woodland on the outskirts of an ancient village, is now seeking new owners. Penny Churchill reports.
