Country Life 5 May 2021
Country Life 5 May 2021 is our Cotswolds special, but we also look at modern manners, dandelions and the battle between curtains and blinds.


Find out more:
BASEBALL: How America's favourite pastime came to Chipping Norton.
RUPERT BROOKE: Gloucestershire's part in the life of the poet and his friends.
MANNERS: 39 steps to modern manners, as proposed by Debora Robertson.
PORTRAITURE: The evolution of the art of painting children.
LONDON LIFE: West Chelsea's best spots, and on-street dining.
WINCHESTER: Fiona Reynolds wanders its ancient paths.
Exquisite houses, the beauty of Nature, and how to get the most from your life, straight to your inbox.
MY FAVOURITE PAINTING: The RNLI's chief picks a naval scene.
BAMPTON CASTLE: The unfinished castle is being revived, 700 years on.
DANDELIONS: Vicky Liddell on the humble little beauty.
INTERIORS: Curtains or blinds?
GARDENS: The American Museum in Bath has fine outdoor spaces.
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.
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The garden created by a forgotten genius of the 1920s, rescued from 'a sorry state of neglect to a level of quality it has not known for over 50 years'
George Dillistone’s original Arts-and-Crafts design at Knowle House, East Sussex, has been lovingly restored and updated with contemporary planting. George Plumptre tells more; photography by Clive Nichols.
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21 of the greatest craftspeople working in Britain today, as chosen by the nation's best designers and architects
We've persuaded some of the most celebrated names from our Country Life Top 100 to name the craftspeople they have in their own personal little black books.