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Country Life 3 March 2021
Country Life 3 March 2021 looks at 'mad' March hares, explores a left-handed castle and talks to the countryside minister.
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Jason Goodwin: 'I kept heading south, choosing turnings at random, with a deepening sense of time suspended'
Following his nose sees Jason Goodwin end up in the quirkily-named village of Pendomer, a place with a distinctly English tale to tell.
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A sustainable farm set in beautiful countryside close to Prince Charles's Welsh home
The buyers of Mandinam, a 362-acre farm with an emphasis on sustainability, will count the Prince of Wales among their neighbours.
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Tyneham, Dorset: The village sacrificed for the sake of the D-Day landings that ended up frozen in the 1940s
The strange and melancholy tale of Tyneham highlights one of the lesser-known sacrifices of the Second World War.
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Jason Goodwin: 'What gets lost will be forever lost, whereas pylons, cars and trains may be rendered obsolete'
Jason Goodwin muses on economics, Stonehenge and social media.
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A little help from your friends at Neptune
Wherever you are — in town, the countryside or by the sea — Neptune has an experienced designer at hand to help you achieve beautiful, practical spaces, from living rooms and kitchens to bedrooms and bathrooms.
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Wilfred Emmanuel-Jones, aka The Black Farmer: 'Rural Britain is not racist. I find more racism in the cities.'
After emigrating from Jamaica to Britain with the Windrush Generation, Wilfred Emmanuel-Jones made it his mission to move to the countryside and run his own farm. He tells James Fisher about his journey.
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The story of the Tomb of the Unknown Warrior, the brainchild of a Liverpool curate that touched the world
A century on from its inauguration, the Tomb of the Unknown Warrior still has the power to move us — and the tale it tells is one of anguish, not triumphalism. Clive Aslet looks at how this monument came about.
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Country Life 28 October 2020
Country Life 28 October 2020 celebrates Autumn's glories, root vegetables and British craftsmanship.
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Simon Jenkins: Britain’s historic houses are, for the most part, safe — that is not true of the countryside
The National Trust is tying itself in knots, argues its former chairman Simon Jenkins, while missing real challenge of the moment: the future of our countryside and the assault on the planning system.
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Country Life 30 September 2020
Country Life 30 September 2020 looks at sketching, South Devon and the bogs of Britain.
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11 wonderful things to enjoy in the countryside without paying a penny
It’s hard to do anything in a city without spending money. Yet in the country, some of the greatest pleasures are there for the taking — here's our 10 for starters.
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Jason Goodwin: The night I accidentally sent a friend to go dogging on a remote West Country hilltop
Oh, Jason. It could have happened to anyone.
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Princess Anne on Nature, the countryside, and working towards a brighter future for all of us
The Princess Royal has guest-edited the 29 July issue of Country Life. In her leader article, she pays tribute to her parents for instilling a lifelong love of Nature and urges us all to be more careful about waste and energy in the hope of securing a brighter future for the countryside.
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The real-life farm and animals that give life to George Orwell's Animal Farm
It's 75 years since George Orwell published Animal Farm, and while the book is an allegory based on Soviet Russia it still shows off the writer's surprising first-hand knowledge of real farm life. Julie Harding explains more.
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Country Life 24 June 2020
Country Life 24 June 2020 looks at keeping chickens, the Howardian Hills, Salisbury Cathedral and how to make sourdough.
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10 sustainability myths busted, and six things you can do to make a real difference
'It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do a little — do what you can,’ wrote Sydney Smith some two centuries ago, but his words are the perfect reason why we should all do what we can to save the planet. The problem is that it's hard to know just what to do; Jonathan Self pores through the confusing and sometimes contradictory information to help.
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Prince Charles backs 'Pick for Britain': ‘The great Second World War movement — The Land Army — is being rediscovered’
HRH The Prince of Wales has posted a message on social media showing his support for the 'Pick for Britain' campaign.
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Rosie and Jim: 'You’re stuck/safe in one of the UK’s most beautiful swathes of countryside, so give thanks and get outside'
It's not just flour and toilet roll that's hard to get hold of during lockdown; it seems that paragraphs are in short supply too, forcing our writers to resort instead to bullet point lists.
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The head of the CPRE: 'Just looking at open fields and woodland and hills makes you feel great... The countryside has a soul, and people can feel that'
Crispin Truman, the CEO of CPRE tells us about his favourite places in England, the importance of rural spaces, and what he would do if he was the King of the Countryside for one day.
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Farming Life: The cock on the brink of death, saved by spending a night in the Aga
The chickens are reprieved and it’s keep calm and carry on with the calving, says our resident farming columnist Jamie Blackett.
