Scenes from two centuries of rural life to go on display

FROM idyllic scenes to the realities of rural life, a new exhibition at Lakeside Arts explores how the English countryside has been used and depicted over the past 200 years, and the enduring impact it has had on people, especially in Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire.

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Country Lives, which runs from April 10 to September 21 at Lakeside Arts' Weston Gallery, has been curated by Dr Sarah Holland, of the University of Nottingham's School of History, and colleagues in manuscripts and special collections.

"This exhibition highlights how writers, artists, tourists, rural inhabitants and workers depicted the countryside, showing what it meant to different people," said Dr Holland, a historian of 19th and 20th century Britain, specialising in the history of the countryside.