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September 2026
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- September 30th
- Robin Swithinbank: I've seen the world's rarest and most valuable watches with my own eyes. Now, you can too
- The ghosts, the survivors, and the one with six fingers: How much do you know about the wives of Henry VIII? Find out in the Country Life Quiz of the Day, September 30, 2026
- The home of one of Scotland's great eccentric beauties — the woman who took her pet badger on 100mph speedboat rides — is a hotel you can stay in
- 'She is part of its atmosphere, its memory, and its soul': The bucolic final resting place of Henry VIII's last bride
- The gorgeous collection of one of the founding fathers of English Country House style is up for sale
- September 29th
- Price that house in the Country Life Quiz of the Day, September 29, 2026
- Teddy bears, dog collars and garden gnomes: The strangest museums in the UK revealed
- Country Life September 30, 2026
- How to rebuild an old house and make it a modern marvel, using most of its original materials
- This Cornish manor house with a 700-year history is full of life, colour and flair
- 'The lowliest material on the earth — mud — becomes something beautiful, valuable and unique': Will Gompertz on the 'incredible alchemy' of pottery
- Reader Event: A Mayfair masterclass with Berry Bros. & Rudd
- September 28th
- Test your general knowledge in the Country Life Quiz of the Day, September 28, 2026
- A wisteria-clad Cotswolds home with a name that'll put a smile on your face
- Will a tourist tax serve those who pay it?
- Beheadings, a duplicitous solicitor and a Rembrandt for the price of an Oasis ticket: The sorry story of Sprotborough Hall
- What is everyone talking about this week: Have we reached peak 90s nostalgia?
- September 27th
- The Glovebox: A new era at McLaren, best of Goodwood Revival and say hello to Kermit and Nevada
- The humble pug has long been the darling dog of royalty
- Six country houses, from an Elizabethan mansion to a converted boathouse that dips its toes into the water, as seen in Country Life
- The 'hounds of heaven' are in the skies above, and it's one of Nature's greatest sights
- Keep dreaming: The spectacular reimagining of Norwich Castle
- September 26th
- The epic country house in 'the most beautiful spot on Earth' is for sale for the third time in 200 years
- 'People often expect a perfect repair, but we are not about that': The experts taking care of leather
- What does it take to conserve vast and untamed African ecosystems for future generations?
- 'I’m not after perfection; I’m after feeling. If people walk through here and feel joy, I’ve succeeded’: Matthew Rice on his gorgeous garden at Ham Court
- Meet Gerald of Wales, the medieval Bill Bryson who was Britain's first great travel writer
- September 25th
- A house for those whose biggest problem is whether to take the yacht or the helicopter
- Can you count the stars? It's the Country Life Quiz of the Day, September 25, 2026
- The pleasure of starting with the land: A Bequia site above Friendship Bay
- When is a pipe not a pipe? When it is the painted paradox of René Magritte
- A £15 million manor house that's been transformed into as grand a home as you'll find in the Cotswolds
- If any animal could be considered an artist, it is surely the redstart
- September 24th
- The 16th century farmhouse that was home to an iconic Oscar-winning actor, and the man who wrote the Mr Men books
- There's no toying around in the Country Life Quiz of the Day, September 24, 2026
- David Shrigley: ‘Very strange, figurative, slushy, squishy paintings — I love that aesthetic'
- Alan Titchmarsh: 'The best garden gates are a fanfare, an indication of the glories to come'
- 900 acres of Scotland to call your own, with rivers, beaches and mountains, at the price of a two-bed flat in South London
- Lights, camera, don't move! The new wave of English still-life painters
- September 23rd
- The Bentley Torcal is an electric car that isn’t afraid
- Get a whiff of the Country Life Quiz of the Day, September 23, 2026
- 'I've found the most enticing cheese trolley in Burgundy': An unmissable guide to France's best wine-producing region
- 'It's both old and new — yet you can’t see the join': Nicholas Howard on one of the greatest treasures at Castle Howard
- Jeff Koons: 'AI is affecting us in the most positive ways imaginable'
- September 22nd
- Are you the ultimate trivia all-rounder? You'll need to prove it in the Country Life Quiz of the Day, September 22, 2026
- One Palace Green: Returning style and splendour to a monument of the Arts-and-Crafts Movement
- Country Life September 23, 2026
- Bog standard? We beg to differ. These fascinating wetlands have a fearsome history
- A £3.5 million townhouse that sparked a raging debate in the Country Life office
- The Bayeux Tapestry is an exhibition to remember
- Your home deserves the best
- September 21st
- Do you remember the 21st Country Life Quiz of the Day of September, 2026?
- Future-proofing, preservation and a break with formality: Reinventing the English country house
- How a sweet malted milk gave rise to the finest garden in Edwardian England
- 'Sometimes, a metal sliver may fly into his eye. Occasionally, the pointing stone will cause a fatal injury': The dangerous but well-paid world of needle making
- What is everyone talking about this week: Why do art's insiders skip Frieze — and where do they go instead?
- September 20th
- 'Better to play with a £50,000 fake than a priceless original'
- In Peke condition: Meet the ancient toy dog breed famed for resembling a pain au chocolat
- Six impossibly grand country homes, from a thatched Devon farmhouse to Leicestershire's answer to Versailles
- 'The council thought it was a useless bit of scrubland and nobody would care, but we knew different': David vs Goliath in our green and pleasant land
- The inventor-turned-industrial magnate who founded Unilever spent millions on art — and housed it in this gallery built to honour the love of his life
- September 19th
- The Cotswolds home of the meanest quiz show host in television history is up for sale
- To restore a painting, science must meet art and the past must meet the present
- Angela Hartnett: ‘My husband is a better chef than me. He has a little extra edge’
- Grace La Margna review: Art Nouveau meets new wave glamour
- The garden at Mount St John: Tom Stuart-Smith's contemporary pleasure ground
- September 18th
- A Caribbean dream home? Pied-a-terre in Portofino? Or an 11-bedroom château? What £2 million buys you around the world
- Nice houses and the famous people who lived in them. What else but the Country Life Quiz of the Day, September 18, 2026
- What happened to the most important collection of watches ever achieved by a private collector?
- In defence of sheep
- The 10 best far-flung villages worth a lengthy commute
- Do we dress better when the economy is tanking?
- September 17th
- A 600-year-old house that's full of period charm outside — and 1980s-style fantasy on the inside
- Test your knowledge in the Country Life Quiz of the Day, September 17, 2026
- What would Turner think? Meet Britain’s new landscape painters
- What tulips should you plant this autumn? Alan Titchmarsh, Isabella Bannerman and 10 more of Britain's best gardeners and writers give their answer
- 'I rented it from the parents of a friend — they were perfect landlords who charged peppercorn rent': Sir Nicholas Coleridge on his first house in the country
- Don't bat away the fruit fly! This humble pest has six Nobel Prizes to its name
- September 16th
- Justine Picardie: 'Search dusty attics or muddy boot rooms for forgotten trench coats and sally forth, as gallant Britannic ambassadors'
- Shake it, stir it and test your cocktail knowledge in the Country Life Quiz of the Day, September 16, 2026
- A restored farmhouse is a magnet for Britain’s best chefs and it’s making Deal a big deal
- Stop trying to make a pub something it isn't
- The original golden gates, created by an unparalleled genius of 17th-century metalwork
- September 15th
- A new exhibition in the Hampshire forest is setting tongues wagging — and wooing young collectors
- Scrabble, cars and death at Buckingham Palace in the Country Life Quiz of the Day, September 15, 2026
- Country Life September 16, 2026
- Shell we? The dressed crab is smart, splendidly laid back and uniquely British
- A thatched roof, ancient beams and fire-engine-red Rayburn at this picture-perfect cottage in Lincolnshire
- If you Focus, you too can be inspired by the wit and wisdom of leading experts in the world of design
- September 14th
- Where were these UK icons born? Find out in the Country Life Quiz of the Day, September 14, 2026
- Did Chanel's spectacular diamond exhibition almost cure the Great Depression?
- A beachfront Victorian fortress for sale on Alderney that could be in the Caribbean
- Country Life's 'unusually hurried and ill-composed photographs' of a curious home eviscerated by The Blitz
- What is everyone talking about this week: How Yotam Ottolenghi inspired a vogue for harvest parties
- September 13th
- The Goodwood Members' Meeting, where The Duke of Richmond meets Dave from Richmond
- Dangerous descendant of wolves or dedicated war hero? The rise, fall and rise again of the incomparable German shepherd
- Six outstanding country homes, from £460,000 to £6 million, as seen in Country Life
- Lights, camera, countryside: The best rural cinemas
- A decades-long project to save a house from 500 years of 'ungainly, hotch-potch extensions' and reveal its original beauty
- September 12th
- A six-bedroom mansion with tower, lake and 22 acres on a beautiful Scottish peninsula at just £635,000
- Why the treacherous lure of quivering quicksand haunts our nightmares
- 'Alexander McQueen is coming home the way football never could': This season’s ‘it’ item is the runway itself
- The Plaza review: Gilded Age opulence beloved by Fitzgerald, The Beatles and a lion called Goldfleck
- How Kew planted an American prairie in the heart of Sussex
- September 11th
- For sale: a château that went from hosting medieval kings to a 'wild and famous' nightclub
- Can you guess these country house prices? It's the Country Life Quiz of the Day, September 11, 2026
- Blackacre: The award winning bespoke jeweller doing it the hard way
- A slice of heaven for fruit lovers: One of the world's greatest apple displays is about to take place in Devon
- In the 21st century, the backup country house needs to work like the rest of us
- A glimmer of hope for Mentmore Towers, the 'treasure-house that would evoke all the richness of 16th-century Venice'
- September 10th
- This statement bathroom is just the start in a four-bedroom Victorian dream house for sale at £750,000
- The Golden Age of air travel in the Country Life Quiz of the Day, September 10, 2026
- The new school of English painters following in the footsteps of Sir Joshua Reynolds
- Projecting power: How the Normans used architecture to conquer England
- 'I went out of my way to make it as 1980s as I could. It is now shades of salmon and apricot': Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen on his first house in the country
- A dazzling piece of jewellery from the Diamond King could be yours
- September 9th
- 'Grow some balls and jump a clear round': Scott Brash and Harry Charles on grit, Grand Slams and growing up in the saddle
- Are you up to date? The Country Life Quiz of the Day, September 9, 2026, will test you on this week's news
- Viva Italia! Inside the health retreat in the Dolomites that doesn’t skimp on carbs
- Salon Privé 2026: McLarens, Duesenbergs, Miuras and more from Blenheim's best garden party
- We're heading for an autumn of unparalleled colour — but why?
- September 8th
- Battle, betrayal and Bayeux: It's all about the world's most famous tapestry in the Country Life Quiz of the Day, September 8, 2026
- Can Federer, DiCaprio and Zidane follow in Cary Grant's footsteps and sell their watches for a tip top hammer price?
- Country Life September 9, 2026
- Where vanity meets art: Before the selfie, there was the mirror
- The rural idyll that was home to one the finest British actors of the 20th century for 60 years
- Frogs, foxes and fire-breathing dragons: Meet the barking, quacking and roaring menagerie of the Bayeux Tapestry
- September 7th
- Every day is a holiday with the Country Life Quiz of the Day, September 7, 2026
- An iconic Surrey home created by Sir Edwin Lutyens has defied the property market — and it's not hard to see why
- Yotam Ottolenghi: ‘I still get stressed about hosting a dinner party'
- The rise and ruin of an Elizabethan Hall that tried in vain to prepare a war poet for the trenches
- What is everyone talking about this week: We know how to fix Britain's trains
- September 6th
- What fascinates a man who has seen it all? A Bugatti Veyron
- Dovecotes, deer, vineyards and lots of castles.... apart from that, what did the Normans ever do for us?
- Five wonderful homes, from a thatched wonder to a house with its own bluebell wood, as seen in Country Life
- Five centuries of the dog collar, from wolf-proof necessity to aristocratic accoutrement
- The 'King's favourite architect' bows out after 60 years of excellence and keeping the flame of Classicism alive in the dark decades of Modernism
- September 5th
- The historic house visited by Elizabeth I — and once owned by a daredevil racing driver
- 'More barrels than a Gatling gun' — how posh is your name?
- England is an important world centre for figurative painters who were born overseas
- Dumbleton Hall hotel review: Rejuvenated grandeur in Jilly Cooper country
- Beautiful, impressive, mature: The high-summer splendour of Cedar House
- September 4th
- Thomas Jefferson’s 557-acre, historic childhood home is for sale
- A perfect pair? The Country Life Quiz of the Day, September 4, 2026 is all about shoes
- The Nazi-defying bird brooch and other gems from the Country Life Archive
- Down with the breakfast meeting
- Sarah Corbett-Winder: Moving to the countryside was the best decision we’ve ever made. It’s shaping our children’s lives
- No pesticides please, we're British: Organic sector swells with wines the winner
- Reader event: Reinventing the country house at Daylesford
- September 3rd
- Spill the beans with the Country Life Quiz of the Day, September 3, 2026
- Theo James: ‘Is it cool? Or is it just that I'm becoming a middle-aged t**t?
- Two rural homes for sale on the historic Essex estate where H. G. Wells and the Countess of Warwick partied
- What's In My Boot: Heirloom fishing rods, watercolours and duck food — everything Leah Lane takes for a family outing by the river
- What we can learn from the Bayeux tapestry's lost ending
- Knight Frank's experts on why country homes come into their own in the autumn
- September 2nd
- Light as air, tough as diamond: A five-minute guide to ceramic watches
- You better be-leaf it's the Country Life Quiz of the Day, September 2, 2026
- If you want a hotel with history, then you can't put a price on fun
- Charles Berkeley on the arch at the castle that's been in his family since the 1100s
- A 'Tudor' mansion on the Tube, in 30 acres of countryside
- Emily Roux doesn't need her father's help, unless it's looking after the children
- September 1st
- Pinch, punch it's the first Country Life Quiz of the Day (of the month) of September 1, 2026
- The art of renovating a house so beautifully, you'd never know it was rented
- Country Life September 2, 2026
- 'The Pull of an Elephant and the Appetite of a Canary': The enduring joys of driving vintage cars
- An estate bequeathed by William the Conqueror and owned by a Guinness heiress is on the market for the first time in 60 years
- The creative power of scenery and steam continues to inspire
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