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Maria McKinney on ‘Sire’

All my grandparents were farmers; I grew up in the countryside surrounded by farms and helped neighbours herd sheep and cattle into the field. My body of work called ‘Sire’ looks at the genomics of modern cattle breeding.

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Remote romance and the common cold

Getting creatively romantic due to a virus sounds all too contemporary, but our archives show what socially distanced seduction looked like seven decades ago.

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Parks and politics in Brixton’s past and present

Gentrification is creeping along Railton Road, but racial inequality still lingers in memories of the 1980s, and in the continuing lack of green-space access.

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Sharing Nature: Parks for people

Paula Broom’s photograph of Sydney’s Centennial Park shows the complexity and joy we find in urban greenery.

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  • Rādhā and Krishna embrace in the countryside. Chromolithograph, 1882.
  • Prisoners marching in the countryside under supervision. Gouache painting.
  • Countryside in the Netherlands: a fisherman in the foreground, a village in the background. Lithograph by N. Strixner after Rembrandt, 1811.
  • Maps of the French countryside with railway lines and trains. Coloured engraving.
  • Magdalen College, Oxford: the Tower as seen from the countryside. Etching by J. Whessell.
  • Oxford: twelve views of the city as seen from the surrounding countryside or river. Aquatint.
  • Morris Evans with the cycle he used to ride around the countryside selling his products
  • Mount Etna and the nearby countryside. Engraving by W. Byrne and T. Medland, 1788, after J. Smith.
  • A hare standing on a rock outside a forest overlooking the countryside. Etching by J. E. Ridinger.
  • A steam train transporting its passengers and plague through countryside and towns. Drawing by A.L. Tarter, 194-.
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