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In this issue

There’s no place like home
John Goodall charts the rebirth of the House of Commons, which reopened 75 years ago in the wake of its devastating bombing during the Blitz.

Join the stag party
The antlers of deer are one of the majestic sights of the British
countryside. Charles Harris tells their remarkable story from growth through to shedding.

Smooth operators
Octavia Pollock ferrets out the real story about the curious and characterful mustelids with a long sporting heritage.

There's no place like home

The House of Commons, Palace of Westminster, London SW1

8 mins

The legacy The 2nd Earl of Leicester and driven shooting

At the end of the 19th century, when driven pheasant shooting was at its zenith, the sport on offer at British estates was the envy of the world and none more so than at Holkham, a 25,000-acre wild-bird bastion on the wind-lashed north Norfolk coast.

1 mins

Join the stag party

From Shakespeare to treasured stalking trophies and scientific study, antlers in all their aspects never fail to impress and inspire

6 mins

Smooth operators

Unfairly maligned as a sneaky troublemaker, the quicksilver ferret is a characterful, curious and highly intelligent creature–with fascinating regal and cultural trappings to boot

7 mins

Go on, then.

Few things feel more British than downing tools between breakfast and lunch for a hot drink and something sweet, declares

2 mins

Supporting cast

From landing hulking catfish on the Zambezi to talking tackle with Ted Hughes, COUNTRY LIFE's fishing correspondent looks back on seven colourful decades

5 mins

Magic and mystery

October brings the first of the frosts, bewitching mist, the turning of leaves and a host of other- worldly visitors

4 mins

I've got that Friday feelin'

With its roots in Norse mythology, the fear of Friday is one of the oldest and most persistent superstitions

3 mins

Fade to grey

Smothering, transformative and beautiful, fog's close-set shroud has inspired titans of literature, cinema and art-and forces the rest of us to look at the world a little closer

4 mins

Woven into history

Once the country seat of Liverpool wool barons turned shipping tycoons, Gyrn Castle is now seeking new custodians, as is Tudor Revival-style Fulford Hall, the Victorian seat of a frontier adventurer

5 mins

Unbridled havens

For horse lovers everywhere, these five properties boast facilities-from stables to solariums-that are the stuff of equestrian dreams

3 mins

Where the land is art

Nick Dakin-Elliot, who gardens in Tuscany, is still moved by the Italian hilltop gardens that command some of the most beautiful views in the world

5 mins

Without gardeners, we are lost

YOU might think it unlikely, but making a garden for someone is thrilling. A telephone call out of the blue, a drive to some distant part of the country, knocking on the door of a strange house and meeting not only a new person, but a new garden. That first meeting bursts with potential —the views, the house, the trees, the flaws, the treasures and also the people. It is a bit like a blind date. We circle around each other, me trying to work out what the site needs and the client wants. How much gardening do they want to do? Will they employ help or do it all themselves? Kitchen garden? Ponds? Orchards? How much do they want to spend?

3 mins

Nice day for a black pudding

Although it's now a beloved breakfast staple, the divisively delicious blood sausage has had a chequered and visceral history

6 mins

Rhapsody in blue

With its majestic proportions and astonishing turn of speed-it can swim faster than a battleship-the bluefin tuna is poetry in motion

3 mins

Where the streets had no name

In a John Behan bronze, collector Jacqueline O'Donovan, a child of the Irish diaspora, can sense the desperation of a starving people forced to flee their land

4 mins

Speak of the Devil

Taking as many guises as his names, the Prince of Lies turned at times into a man-devouring ogre, a mutant medley of claws, horns and wings, or the brooding rebel that lit the imagination of Romantic painters

10+ mins

This lady is on fire

A cyanotype of a fern leaf by early photographer Anna Atkins soared above its estimate in Surrey and 'the most striking likeness' of Horatio Nelson is drawing every eye at the LAPADA Fair

3 mins

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Country Life UK Magazine Description:

Publisher: Future

Category: Lifestyle

Language: English

Frequency: Weekly

Country Life; architecture, gardens, countryside, property, the very best of British life Published by IPC Media. Country Life, the quintessential English magazine, is undoubtedly one of the biggest and instantly recognisable brands in the UK today. It has a unique core mix of contemporary country-related editorial and top end property advertising. Editorially, the magazine comments in-depth on a wide variety of subjects, such as architecture, the arts, gardens and gardening, travel, the countryside, field-sports and wildlife. With renowned columnists and superb photography Country Life delivers the very best of British life every week.