In this issue

The man who loved drawing, dogs and dragons
Best known for wartime posters, Alfred Leete could capture canines and Bertie Wooster alike, finds Nicholas Hodge.

The immortal journey of Dürer
The German artist and printmaker is worthy of the respect afforded the greatest of all Old Masters, asserts Michael Prodger.

The Man Who Loved Drawing, Dogs And Dragons

Best known for designing the First World War ‘Your country needs you’ recruitment poster, Alfred Leete was also adept at capturing canines– as well as Bertie Wooster–in pen and ink.

6 mins

In The Right Frame Of Mind

Designed to protect and enhance a picture, an elaborate frame is often a work of art in its own right. Catriona Gray discovers how red-coloured clay makes gold leaf glow and why mounts are not always needed

5 mins

The immortal journey of Dürer

Forget Leonardo: there is a case to be made for the German artist being the true Renaissance great, argues Michael Prodger

8 mins

See the blackthorn swim in snow

Bedecked with thorns so spiky it’s known as Nature’s barbed wire, the blackthorn’s delicate, starry-white flowers are also an often unreliable harbinger of spring, observes Jack Watkins

3 mins

History in the making

This small slice of Hertfordshire is almost bursting with heritage, history and idyllic country homes

4 mins

Medieval magnificence

The historic Dower House Garden at Morville Hall, Shropshire, has been sensitively re-created by its painstaking owner, finds Non Morris

6 mins

Where angels tread

A Rembrandt enchants, yet, strangely, a Botticelli fails to move; and Old Master drawings invite us to ‘compare and contrast’

8 mins

Beyond the Zoom boom

Many schools have adapted admirably to the challenges of delivering virtual learning, but when life returns to some sort of normality, might online elements still have a place in the classroom, asks Flora Watkins

7 mins

Education and inspiration

Haileybury, Hertfordshire -In 1862, the empty buildings of an Imperial training college were occupied by one of a new generation of public schools. John Goodall looks at the story and development of the site

8 mins

Forces of nature

Proper boarding, gleaming pastoral care and the kind of leadership admired in a gentleman officer are top of the agenda for many prospective military families. Madeleine Silver reports

7 mins

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