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Do androids dream of electric cars, with Adam Hay-Nicholls
The Metro's F1 correspondent and Country Life car aficionado joins the Country Life Podcast to discuss Bugattis, F1, and how to drive a helicopter to the pub.
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What you'll find in this week's issue of Country Life — and how to subscribe or get your copy
Country Life March 11, 2026, is our annual special issue featuring the Country Life Top 100 country house architects, craftspeople and designers.
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Country Life March 11, 2026
Britain's top 100 craftspeople, architects and designers are the stars of Country Life March 11, 2026, while we also look at toads, David Hockney and Castle Howard.
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This Georgian church is now a gorgeous country home — and it was designed by a student of Sir John Soane
Greystead Old Church is an object lesson in how good a converted church can become as a place to live. Julie Harding takes a look.
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‘Never back a grey horse’: Where the Cheltenham Festival superstition comes from
Jack Watkins breaks down this piece of Cheltenham folklore, as this year’s festival begins .
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The sad clown dog that won Best in Show at Crufts
Meet the Clumber spaniel, the largest of the spaniels with a sad-looking face and a heart of gold.
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Why is this so red? The answer is waiting in the Country Life Quiz of the Day, March 9, 2026
New MPs, luminescent animals and out-of-this-world questions also feature in our first quiz of the week.
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Easel on the eye: The genius of John Piper
John Piper was a modernist who rejected Modernism, a versatile artist who defied categories, but one who remained true to the spirit and detail of the places he painted
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From baroque masterpiece to the UKs most picturesque motor circuit: The tragic tale of Oulton Park and its inhabitants
One hundred years ago, Oulton Park — whose family had already been torn apart by the First World War — was consumed by fire.
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What is everyone talking about this week: The man creating the new Turner Prize
Louis Elton, an alumnus of both Oxford and Cambridge, believes innovative artisanship is the answer to Britain's challenges. Now, he's launching a prize for what he calls the country's 'misfit makers'.
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At war in a foreign country, jailed by your own son and traded as a teenager as part of a business proposition: The ladies of Leeds Castle saw it all
Laura Kay charts the remarkable history of ‘The Ladies' Castle’ near Maidstone, Kent.
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From palaces to football pitches, the women devoted to their dogs
Corgis, spaniels, Dalmatians and celebrity chihuahuas — this International Women’s Day we celebrate some of the women whose devotion to their dogs is almost as well known as they are.
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Colour photographs of Gertrude Jekyll’s garden, rediscovered in the Country Life Archive, offer a rare glimpse of what it looked like at the peak of her fame
In 1997, Country Life published a set of chromatic photographs of Gertrude Jekyll’s Munstead Wood garden that had lain undisturbed in our archive for nearly a century. We have reproduced the pictures, corresponding feature and captions here.
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From the Wild West to West London: The indomitable rise of cowboy core
Dressing like a cowboy has never been more fashionable. Hayley Bloomingdale investigates what's behind the the creeping influence of Americana, in the UK and around the world.
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The Suffolk house where two of the greatest women in British history spent their childhood years
The Suffragette leader Millicent Fawcett and Britain's first female doctor, Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, grew up in this home in Aldeburgh.
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Eve Myles: ‘You wouldn't believe how many Emily Blunt pictures get sent to me to sign’
The Torchwood actor on meeting Linda Hamilton, being the 'best-kep secret in Wales', the book that inspired her to get into acting — and her consuming passions.
