You can find Country Life at newsagents, shops and supermarkets, or you can order a copy of Country Life at the cover price of £4.25, with free postage in the UK.
Here’s a selection of what you’ll find in this week’s issue:
JERSEY: Landmarks, legends and a netball star, plus properties for sale
MASTERPIECE: The Bloomsbury Group left its mark, literally, on Charleston Farmhouse, says Jack Watkins
BORDER TERRIERS: Courageous, energetic and good for a cuddle, Border terriers have many fans, finds Katy Birchall
VILLAGES: As microcosms of society, it’s easy to see why villages have long offered inspiration for novelists, muses Flora Watkins
FUSCHIA JAM: Charles Quest-Ritson on making fuchsia jam and rowan jelly
JOHN NASH: John Nash deserves to emerge from the shadow of his brother, Paul, believes Peyton Skipwith
MY FAVOURITE PAINTING: Ronel Lehmann’s choice of an imposing royal image
CARLA CARLISLE: Carla vows to avoid anything ‘Made in China’
ARCHITECTURE: Sympathetic restoration work has brought Taitlands, North Yorkshire, back from institutional use, finds John Martin Robinson
SKYLARKS: The song of one of our most beloved birds must be allowed to soar, asserts Ian Morton
STRAWBERRIES: Tom Parker Bowles licks his lips over luscious strawberries
INTERIORS: Blue and green should be seen
GARDENS: Tiffany Daneff talks to Peter Hughes, the indefatigable chairman of the Gardens Trust
THE OLD RECTORY AT EAST WOODHAY: Interior-design skill comes into play at The Old Rectory, East Woodhay, Hampshire, finds Tiffany Daneff
Plus much more
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50 years ago, the English country house seemed headed for extinction. Instead it was the start of a new golden ageRather than perceiving the mid 20th century as a troubled period in the history of the country house, John Martin Robinson argues that it was perhaps one of the most interesting, unexpected and enterprising. All photography from the Country Life Image Archive, by June Buck, Paul Barker, Val Corbett, Will Pryce and Paul Highnam.
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'Meat, ale and guns — what else do you need, bar glorious scenery?': William Sitwell on the Brendon Hills, West SomersetWilliam Sitwell chooses the Brendon Hills as his piece of heaven in Britain.
