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What is everyone talking about this week: Why we love period drama
Observers cite a need for escapism, but Will Hosie thinks there's more to our enduring love of a period drama.
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‘I’m not impressed by an Oxbridge education’: Author Jessie Burton on her acting ambitions, writing ‘The Miniaturist’ and her consuming passions
The Sunday and New York Times bestselling author wrote her debut novel under her desk while temping as a PA for private equity companies. Lotte Brundle meets her.
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Guy Ritchie: 'My mother married an impoverished aristocrat with a knackered country pile. I've been chasing that dream ever since'
The film maker opens up about his love for the countryside, and his friendship with Sir David Beckham.
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Barbecue it like Beckham: The 'lamb man' who taught David Beckham about fire cooking
Tom Bray, is co-founder and director of Fire Made, a Somerset-based company specialising in outdoor cookery accessories and barbecues. He's also one of the countryside champions nominated by Sir David Beckham in his guest edit. Tom spoke to Julie Harding.
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A grand milestone: Country Life's Mark Hedges celebrates a record-breaking 1,000 issues as editor-in-chief
The custodian of a 128-year-old British institution celebrated the milestone with a special edition guest edited by Sir David Beckham.
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‘A significant number of the little blighters can add up, can’t it?’: Sophia Money Coutts on how much — or little — to spend on your godchildren’s Christmas presents
As we ramp up to the festive season, our Modern Etiquette columnists answers our reader's most pressing questions.
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'Seeing the work that people are doing all around the world has given me hope for the future': The young naturalist who is one of David Beckham's countryside champions
Julie Harding speaks to Ramandeep Nijjar, a young naturalist who has made an impact on the world even before finishing university, and one of David Beckham's countryside champions.
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1,000 issues and counting: Editor-in-chief Mark Hedges on the Country Life Podcast
Mark Hedges has been editor of Country Life for 1,000 issues — and not far short of 20 years.
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Poppy Okotcha, the model turned gardener who is one of David Beckham's countryside champions
Poppy Okotcha, the 29-year-old ecological community grower, garden content creator, author — and also one of David Beckham's countryside champions — speaks to Julie Harding.
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The mysterious case of Country Life's cursed photographs and other spooky stories from our archive
Melanie Bryan delves goes in search of the spookiest stories in the Country Life Archive.
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What is everyone talking about this week? How to be a patriot
A British 'GQ' cover has sparked questions about how to be a patriot amid today's culture wars.
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Meet David Beckham's milliner, the man who's created hats using everything from flora and fauna, to car parts and buckets
Barnaby Horn, an award-winning hat-maker and visual artist who learned much of his craft at Highgrove in Gloucestershire, is one of Sir David Beckham's countryside champions. He spoke to Julie Harding.
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'Sir David Beckham came to see our cattle a couple of years ago. He was fascinated': The stockman at the Glympton Estate
Trevor Kirk, a Scottish stockman who now tends the Aberdeen Angus herd on the Glympton Estate in Oxfordshire, is one of Sir David Beckham's rural heroes in the special guest-edited issue of the magazine. He spoke to Julie Harding.
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Exclusive: Sir David Beckham's guest edit is out now — have a look inside
The October 22, 2025, issue of Country Life is out now and it's been edited by none other than Sir David Beckham.
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Stefan Pitman: Making great country houses cost less to heat than a suburban semi
The trailblazing architect Stefan Pitman — founder of SPASE — joins the Country Life Podcast.
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Dire Straits' bassist John Illsley reveals why he swapped the recording studio for the art studio — and his consuming passions
John Illsley rose to fame as the bassist of the Dire Straits, but nowadays you're more likely to find him in an art studio.
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Five émigré artists who greatly enriched Britain's intellectual and creative scenes
Frieze Masters kicks off this week and several contributing galleries are using it to shine a spotlight on the artistic contribution of émigrés past and present.
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The lives, wild parties and country houses of the Guinness family: Adrian Tinniswood on the Country Life Podcast
The writer and historian Adrian Tinniswood joins James Fisher on the Country Life Podcast.
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‘One remembers not to give the Queen a thump of joyful friendliness’: Remembering Norman Parkinson — revolutionary fashion photographer and Cecil Beaton’s only homegrown rival
Cecil Beaton might be the toast of London right now, with a new exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, but contemporary Norman Parkinson was always hot on his heels.
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‘She was a sort of fairy godmother to Country Life’: Mark Hedges, Tom Parker Bowles, Sophia Money-Coutts and more on the genius of Jilly Cooper
Jilly Cooper appeared in the pages of Country Life multiple times. Here, friends of the magazine reflect on time spent with her and what she meant to them.
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The new rat-pack: the Gen-Z team saving shearwaters and killing invasive species on a remote island in the Irish sea
Meet the twenty-somethings trading clubbing and pub quizzes for bird ringing and hard graft on the Calf of Man.
