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The Long TableFamily life across two homes

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About The Long Table

A magazine about the ordinary machinery of family life when a family lives in more than one house.

A long wooden kitchen table set for a meal with mismatched chairs and a jug of garden flowers.
The long table of the title: the place where a household actually gets organised.

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  1. What this magazine covers
  2. How it is written
  3. Who it is for

Updated 29 August 2026.

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01 What this magazine covers

The Long Table writes about family life in Britain when that life runs across two households. Most of what we publish is practical: the shape of the week, the handover on a Friday afternoon, the second bedroom, the school bag, the shared calendar, the wet Saturday that needs filling. We take the view that a family arrangement is a working system, and that working systems are improved by attention to detail rather than by grand statements.

The magazine is organised into six sections. Co-parenting covers plans, calendars and handovers. Children and change looks at the same arrangement from the child's side. Two homes deals with rooms, budgets and paperwork. Family life in Devon is the local strand, built around Exeter, the coast and the moor. Parents' wellbeing covers sleep, routine and support. The Notebook keeps time through the family year.

02 How it is written

Everything is written in British English, for British households, with British seasons and a British school year in mind. We use plain language and avoid the vocabulary of crisis. A family that has changed shape is still a family, and it deserves prose that treats it as ordinary.

We do not publish personal stories about identifiable people, we do not publish figures we cannot stand behind, and we do not offer legal advice. Questions about the law belong with a qualified adviser, and questions about health belong with a GP. What we can do well is describe the practical layer, and that is what we stick to. The full standards are set out in our editorial policy.

03 Who it is for

Readers tend to arrive at one of two moments: early on, when the arrangement is new and every week has to be invented from scratch, or several years in, when something has changed and a routine that used to work no longer fits. Both are well served here, though the early readers tend to start with the parenting plan piece and the later ones with school life across two homes.

The magazine is free to read and carries no membership of any kind. If you want to reach the editorial desk, the address is on the contact page.