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August 4, 2021

This green and pleasant village

This slice of south London is an underrated arcadia, but for how long, asks Carla Passino?

6 mins

WALKING WITH MASTERPIECES

Art is breaking free from the traditional gallery and its emergence on our streets and in our parks is changing the way we live, says Clive Aslet

5 mins

Updating a legacy

Turvey House, Bedfordshire The home of Charlie and Grace Hanbury Never previously described in COUNTRY LIFE, this fine neo-Classical house has recently been adapted and refurbished by the seventh generation of the family that built it. Jeremy Musson reports

8 mins

Come hell or high water

Often hidden beneath slippery fronds of seaweed, rock pools offer a glimmering window into the cut-throat existence of the creatures that live in these havens on our shores, says Adam Nicolson

6 mins

‘Mother Dear... remember me in your prayer'

A mammoth new work recounting the First World War, week by week, isn’t merely a chronicle of pain and suffering, says co-author Margaret-Louise O’Keeffe–it is a rich tapestry of courage, camaraderie and love

6 mins

The mouse that roared

She kept an eclectic menagerie of pets and wild animals and signed everything, from paintings to cheques, with a tiny mouse. Claire Jackson revisits the all-too-short life of wildlife artist Mouse Macpherson

4 mins

A room for all seasons

Interior designer Sarah Vanrenen has created an outdoor room that’s perfect for summer (and winter) entertaining, finds Amelia Thorpe

5 mins

Magical landscapes

There’s shooting, stalking, fishing, farming and houses aplenty within the golden acres of two of this country’s finest agricultural estates

5 mins

Get ready for their grand entrance

As useful, tough and easy to grow as they are dramatic, colchicums offer spring-like freshness, but in autumn, reveals Charles Quest-Ritson

6 mins

Picturing paradise

Balletic grace, disciplined spirituality, eloquent economy, unrestrained fantasy and pictorial intensity: five artists took very different approaches to illustrating Dante’s vision of Heaven, says Martin Kemp

5 mins

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