Country Life July 1, 2026

Country Life July 1, 2026, visits Lawrence of Arabia's English bolthole, ponders the parakeet problem and goes behind the scenes at Wimbledon.

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Cover of Country Life July 1, 2026, featuring William Bryce Hamilton’s The tennis championships at Wimbledon, 1926
Cover of Country Life July 1, 2026, featuring William Bryce Hamilton’s 'The tennis championships at Wimbledon, 1926'.
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Here's a look at some of what you'll find inside.

A place to touch the earth

Michael Hall visits the rural Dorset hideaway Lawrence of Arabia created to escape from his worldwide fame

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The end of an age

Almost 20,000 men died on the first day of the Battle of the Somme 110 years ago. Allan Mallinson relives events through the eyes of those who were there

Winging it

Mark Cocker profiles Britain’s exotic ring-necked parakeet, now the most northerly breeding ‘wild’ parrot on the planet

Having a ball off court

Will Hosie goes behind the scenes at SW19 to meet the people serving up a successful Wimbledon Championships

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Sir Michael Moritz’s favourite painting

The patron of the Arts chooses a work awash with grand ambition

Country-house treasure

John Goodall eyes a plasterwork rendering of the Aesop fable of the fox and crow that adorns Kenmore House in Virginia,

The legacy

Octavia Pollock salutes John Judkyn, the designer behind the American Museum in Bath

Interiors

Arabella Youens admires a British Museum-inspired hotel bedroom and Amelia Thorpe unearths accessories that cut the mustard

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London Life

Will Hosie talks to Andy Cato about reconnecting Londoners with their food and scours the capital for seven of the best homes on the market before overcoming his distaste for breakfast with a week of early-morning meals over meetings, plus our writers have all you need to know this month

Dare to be square

Matthew Dennison pieces together the story of mosaics left as a legacy of Roman rule in Britain

Luxury

There’s bags of summer fashion fun for Amie Elizabeth White, who also dares to branch out with tree-inspired accessories

To the lighthouse

Kathryn Bradley-Hole finds that harmony abounds as the garden of Underhill House settles into the South Downs in East Sussex

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Arts & antiques

Ceramics are a source of joy for fashion designer Zandra Rhodes, who tells Carla Passino of her enduring passion for pots

Home from home

The American Revolutionary War ended British rule in the US, but an architectural influence lived on, as Patrick Monahan reveals

Travel

Pamela Goodman is intrigued by a slow-burning literary-art library in the Norwegian capital

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Country Life is unlike any other magazine: the only glossy weekly on the newsstand and the only magazine that has been guest-edited by His Majesty The King not once, but twice. It is a celebration of modern rural life and all its diverse joys and pleasures — that was first published in Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee year. Our eclectic mixture of witty and informative content — from the most up-to-date property news and commentary and a coveted glimpse inside some of the UK's best houses and gardens, to gardening, the arts and interior design, written by experts in their field — still cannot be found in print or online, anywhere else.