1900s Notebook
EACH month in this anniversary year, we will aim to bring you items of note, oddities and quirks from a decade in the life of COUNTRY LIFE. The magazine was launched 125 years ago this month during a halcyon time for the country house and the opening up of the countryside through major developments in transport. Equally as transformative was the revelation that working people should be rewarded with time off in which to explore their country.
The reign of Edward Vll (1901–10) represented an oasis of peace marked by rising prosperity and much-needed and E. M. Forster’s .
