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August 2026
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- August 31st
- 'A smooth-haired miniature called Mouse numbered the actor Rupert Everett among her conquests': Don't let the dachshund's diminutive size fool you
- Thomas Becket, a lion and the author of 'Out of Africa' all lived in this medieval monastery photographed for Country Life
- Waterside homes to die for, from a house carved in to a Cornish cliffside to an island home on a Cotswolds lake
- What is everyone talking about this week: The Government is coming for Britain's cigar merchants
- August 30th
- August 29th
- 'One of the most iconic waterfront homes in Cornwall' has just come to the market
- Jeremy Vine: ‘My wife wouldn’t marry me unless I was a member of the National Trust, which is the most middle class thing that’s ever happened to me’
- The girl and the six-strong crew went to sea in a beautiful red sail boat
- Restraint, repetition and 'an unflinching critical eye': The keys to the garden at Craichlaw House
- August 28th
- An Italian villa with an English country garden that's 'a genuine work of landscape art'
- Saddle up for the Country Life Quiz of the Day, August 28, 2026
- The ocean is dying. Titouan Bernicot is regrowing it, one coral at a time
- Sarah Corbett-Winder: Patience is a virtue, especially when moving to the countryside
- Enid Blyton's most beloved characters are still famous for a reason
- August 27th
- 'After 32 years we still camp in the garden and have barbecues — it’s magical': Sarah Raven on her first house in the country
- Pencils, pizza and pupils: It's 'Back to School' time in the Country Life Quiz of the Day for August 27, 2026
- Cuttings not cakes: The sublime story of the Secret Orchard Nursery
- An Art Deco delight with a walled garden, a 17th-century rose parterre and its own boating lake
- The most sought-after paintings by English artists working today are those that verge on abstraction
- 'The caviar of its day': How the cucumber sandwich conquered tea time
- August 26th
- From Wilde to Woolf, the great and the good have all stayed at Hotel Café Royal
- Do you know your architraves from your buttresses? Find out by taking the ultimate architecture test with the Country Life Quiz of the Day, August 26, 2026
- 'There was nothing Daisy could not consume with no repercussions other than human rage': Meet the dogs who really run Country Life
- 'Works of craftsmanship that bring these rooms to life': Thirlestane Castle's spectacular 17th century plasterwork
- A brief and compelling history of how whisky took over the world
- August 25th
- A grand Scottish paradise for sale, just along the coast from the Mull of Kintyre
- How well do you know the Old Masters? Find out in the Country Life Quiz of the Day, August 25, 2026
- African Kuba cloth is the antithesis of our increasingly digital and mechanised world
- Country Life August 26, 2026
- The McLaren McL 6GT wins Monterey Car Week by keeping it simple, stupid
- 'One of the most exciting properties in years' is on the open market in Guernsey, blending Swiss Family Robinson with Bond villain style
- From body-building to ballet, the refurbished Jersey Opera House is the Channel Islands' new National Theatre
- August 24th
- A glittering evening at Bruton Place
- It's karaoke in the Country Life Quiz of the Day, August 24, 2026
- Traditional style meets contemporary comfort in this Georgian mansion in Scotland
- Finding gold: An unexpected journey from river to ring
- Even a visit from Queen Mary couldn't save this 15th-century Yorkshire mansion from Britain's coal industry
- What is everyone talking about this week: Is this to be the worst apple harvest in history?
- August 23rd
- The DS No. 8: 'Quite stylish, but if it snatched your phone you’d have a dickens of a time describing it to the police'
- How a bullbaiting dog became a beloved British icon
- Five spectacular Scottish homes, from a private island estate to a seaside country mansion, as seen in Country Life
- The pretty and practical art form documenting Britain’s great estates
- Curraghmore: The great Irish house transformed by the most 'brilliant, exasperating, expensive and chaotic' architect of the 18th century
- August 22nd
- How a conversation with Kevin McCloud created this elegant and sustainable home for sale in North Yorkshire
- 'He was said to have inspired the burly hunk on the Scott’s Porage Oats box': The history of the Highland Games
- Stuntman to the stars Riley Harper: ‘Anything with Christopher Nolan as a director is amazing to work on’
- 'The ground floor is a sweet shop for grown-ups': Country Life's favourite London spas and treatments
- Bountiful, blowsy and scented: The gravity-defying walled garden at the Palace of Bishop Auckland
- August 21st
- This landmark Kentucky equestrian estate was home to a Ryanair cofounder and more Hall of Fame horses than we can count
- Young bookworms unite for the Country Life Quiz of the Day, August 21, 2026
- Justine Picardie: 'As the wife of Prince Philip’s godson, I saw Elizabeth II on shoot days, wearing a tweed jacket and tartan skirt'
- In classical times this bird was sacred to Aphrodite and for millennia served as an erotic symbol
- Sarah Corbett-Winder: Why I packed up a life in London and went to Wales
- 'A shared experience unlike any other in Britain since the Blitz': What have we learned since summer 1976?
- August 20th
- Summer home security and travel guide
- Get yer kilt oot! It's a very Scottish Country Life Quiz of the Day, August 20, 2026
- A five-bedroom Victorian home in between the woods, the sea and the sky
- Fields of gold: Our finest art has been inspired by home-grown produce
- A summer of prickles and rashes, splinters, scrapes and scratches, a season of stings: Nature is biting back
- Live on the former hunting ground of the kings of Scotland on this magnificent 2,018-acre estate
- What to do with the remains of Glasgow's Mackintosh building?
- August 19th
- A watch like this was made for the water. It seems a shame to leave it on dry land
- It's scallywags, scurvy and swashbuckling in the Country Life Quiz of the Day, August 19, 2026
- Would you like to live in this big windmill by the seaside in Norfolk? Of course you would
- It is hard to know where, when or why this cabinet of dolls was collected
- Ahãma hotel review: Turkey's new waterfront resort is as popular with wildlife as it is with the yachties
- Tom Parker Bowles: 'Without dressing, salad is little more than an incongruous jumble of clueless vegetation'
- August 18th
- We're feeling fruity in the Country Life Quiz of the Day, August 18, 2026
- 'You can be a great chef, but until you understand where your ingredients come from you don’t know the whole package': Diving for scallops in Jersey
- Country Life August 19, 2026
- How this apartment in the historic heart of London went from underwhelming white box to somewhere with comfort, character and sense of place
- Go with the float: This pioneering amphibious home from 'Grand Designs' is for sale
- The English language has 170,000 words — why, then, are our vocabularies shrinking?
- August 17th
- Know your Gucci from your Givenchy? Find out in the Country Life fashion house Quiz of the Day, August 17, 2026
- This Domesday Book manor on the Isle of Wight can be traced back to the reign of Henry III
- Gilders, goldsmiths, embroiderers and engravers: It takes a 2,000-man village to make the world's most coveted fan
- Bird poo fuelled the First World War and also financed this manor house with a plant collection that rivals Kew
- What is everyone talking about this week: Are we all just running out of time?
- August 16th
- 'Theories about overall performance and potential average speed have to be looked at in a completely new light': The Aston Martin DB4
- This much-loved Scottish sheepdog once came remarkably close to disappearing
- Your very own Scottish castle, with sea views, fishing and the Cairngorms on the doorstep, for less than £1 million
- Five charming country homes, from a Norfolk windmill to a 100-acre farm, as seen in Country Life
- Would you still charm me if I was a worm?
- One family, six centuries and an Irish house of unsurpassed beauty: The fascinating tale of Curraghmore
- August 15th
- 'We have concession rates for students and those who wear tartan': Meet the reel housewives of Chelsea
- Cordelia de Castellane: ‘Mr Dior was an aquarius. So am I’
- Looking for a New England: How to have a whale of a time in the American Salcombe
- The Somerset house that brought 'jungle gardening' to the English
- August 14th
- The Greek Island of your dreams is for sale at €35 million
- The Country Life Quiz of the Day, August 14, 2026, is in full bloom
- Regal, romantic and oh so extravagant: Why a tiara can’t fail to make you feel special
- 'The whole idea was to create a bit of a two fingers to the likes of Whispering Angel': Raise a glass to England's sparkling rosé
- A rare double-fronted home that's fit for a film star — on the street made famous by 'The Parent Trap'
- Silent assassin or scapegoat: Is the sparrowhawk really to blame for Britain’s vanishing songbirds?
- August 13th
- Rest among the wildflowers and be inspired in this exquisite one-bedroom Cotswold home
- If these historic walls could talk, they'd tell you to take the Country Life Quiz of the Day, August 13, 2026
- Glass half full: The beautifully fragile artform that has taken the world by storm
- The French Capability Brown meets English-style design in this German garden
- You had me at 'waterslide': This restored Jersey farmhouse is a luxury playground for adults and children
- A five-minute guide to the little London engine that could (deliver the mail)
- August 12th
- Rolex’s most complicated sailing watch is back on deck
- Fly me to the Country Life Quiz of the Day, August 12, 2026, and let me play among the stars
- Rodel House review: Scandi-Scot chic on the original home of Harris Tweed
- 'They will never be for the purists': The relentless, referential and upbeat joy of postmodern buildings
- A historic Hebridean estate with more than 3,000 acres, its own herd of Highland cattle and a glorious castle at its heart
- Meals on wheels: How the railways transformed how we eat
- 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
- 'I wake up and still can’t quite believe that I live here': Sophie Conran on her first house in the country
- Country Life's heatwave winners and losers. Spoiler alert: it's good news for tomatoes
- 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
- What do Adele, the Olympic Games and National Theatre have in common? Monumental set designs by one of Britain's best multidisciplinary artists
- A 1,000-year-old Cotswolds estate for sale, with a Grade II*-listed mansion, 190,000 sq ft and its own deer park
- 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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