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Actor Jennifer Garner on Diane Keaton, 'collecting women' — and her consuming passions
Matisse, Diane Keaton and her beloved childhood toy. Lotte Brundle finds out Jennifer Garner’s consuming passions.
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A very unofficial list of cars that Country Life liked this year
As we head into 2026, James Fisher looks back on a year in cars for Country Life.
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Country Life's top 10 garden stories of 2025, from Alan Titchmarsh's hardy annuals to David Beckham's Cotswolds paradise
We look back at the most-read architecture stories on the Country Life website in 2025.
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Britain's most entertaining (and a little bit salacious) country house scandals
'Country houses seem to have harboured more than their fair share of scandals,' says Adrian Tinniswood, who recounts some of the most shocking.
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Mark Hedges: It's been an exceptional year for Country Life, but the hard work would be in vain without readers — and for that you have my very greatest thanks
Country Life's Editor-in-Chief reflects on 2025 and teases some of what's to come in 2026.
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'Herod’s catapult has been confiscated': The Nativity play that might be alright on the night
Never work with animals and children, they say, but surely it isn’t a proper Nativity without them?
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Country Life's top 10 architecture stories of 2025, from the South Wales terrace with an exquisite Georgian interior, to Ireland's remarkable country houses
We look back at the most-read architecture stories on the Country Life website in 2025.
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'It isn’t only a moment in time, but a meeting place of past, present and yet to come': Fergus Butler-Gallie on how our churches shape our Christmases
The Church of the Nativity still moves millions of people to tears and represents the power of hope. It is why, says the Reverend Fergus Butler-Gallie, we flock to our local church at Christmas, no matter how far removed it may seem.
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Secrets from the world of whisky, from the 60-year-old bottle that sold for £650,000 to the tipple you get at the supermarket
In our last episode of 2025, James Fisher is joined on the Country Life Podcast by Kevin Balmforth and Andrew Simpson.
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The railway revolution: 'The most profound change to British society since the arrival of the Normans, perhaps even the Romans'
The railway revolution opened up new destinations, expanded our culinary horizons and dramatically improved trade. Jonathan Self takes us on a whistle-stop tour of ‘railway mania’.
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For the first time in five centuries, Catholic worshippers in England and Wales may soon outnumber Protestants
New figures suggest that Britain’s youth has found God. Catholicism, in particular, is proving popular.
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Country Life's top 10 property articles of 2025, from the homes of JFK and Alan Titchmarsh to the castle for sale for the first time in 700 years
We look back at the most popular property articles of 2025 on the Country Life website.
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'We begin making in May and start packing and despatching in November — it’s carnage': How the Cotswolds' favourite cake-makers get ready for Christmas
Jessica White of the Meg Rivers Artisan Bakery makes it on to our list of our heroes of Christmas.
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A short history of all the must-have toys for Christmas
Today’s queues may be digital, but the fight to secure that must-have present and avoid small, disappointed faces is timeless. Tom Howells looks at the toys topping recent (and less recent) Christmas wish lists.
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Four homes fit for Father Christmas, from dream chimneys and reindeer stables to a house — with sleigh parking — on North Pole Road
It's the time of year when we stop and wonder what Father Christmas is doing to get ready for his big day — and just as importantly, the sort of house he'd need to live in to prepare.
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The policeman turned goat-herder turned beautician, whose goats' milk soap became a sensation
Beautiful soaps always make a wonderful gift, and that's why the goats' milk soap-maker Nick King is one of our heroes of Christmas.
