Published 3rd January 2022

First published in 1897, Country Life is itself a late-Victorian institution. What could be more appropriate, therefore, than to celebrate with a collector’s issue of articles and photographs from the magazine’s archives? An opening timeline offers an overview of the Victorian Age, but the focus of what follows is exclusively architectural. The coverage of country houses has always been central to the magazine, but it can also claim to have been a pioneer in the study of Victorian architecture through the work of two former Architectural Editors, Mark Girouard and Michael Hall.