Why have we lost the name Home & Country from the membership magazine?

For 85 years, Home & Country (later WI Home & Country) was subscribed to by WI members – as many as 100,000 in the 1950s. With the introduction of a membership magazine it was agreed that a change of title would be a new beginning and WI Life was felt to be appropriate because the magazine would cover all aspects of the organisation, from campaigning and community projects to cookery and the lives of interesting individual members.

The name Home & Country is registered to the NFWI, so is not lost entirely and indeed could be used again in the future if it were deemed appropriate. We are aware that many thousands of members enjoyed reading WIH&C for many years and we felt it was important that the new magazine wasn’t simply a revamped version, because it’s an entirely new concept.