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Hilary Macaskill

April 2015

  • Alice in Wonderland tea party

    Scottish Power has plunged me into a Mad Hatter world

    Six months and several bills later, a bemused customer who feels she is living through an Alice in Wonderland fantasy still can’t switch suppliers

December 2013

  • Mother putting a cloth / cotton nappy on a little baby

    From the Guardian archive
    From the archive, 2 December 1981: Switching your baby to manual operation

    Originally published in the Guardian on 2 December 1981: In the world of childcare books, stern routine has given way to sympathetic flexibility

January 2012

  • Charles Dickens in his study

    Charles Dickens at 200
    Charles Dickens's world of home interiors

    Charles Dickens wasn't just a stickler for the intricacies of plot and character development. Home decoration was also a lifelong obsession, writes Hilary Macaskill

November 2010

  • Brenda Macaskill

    Other lives
    Brenda Macaskill obituary

    Other lives: Her busy retirement followed a working life dedicated to caring for disabled miners

August 2006

  • How to read Britain

    With the help of a new online map, you can visit the locations that inspired a host of children's classics.

December 2005

  • Breaking away from the herd

    A DIY safari means you can go where you want, when you want, and without the crowds.

October 2004

  • Dust to dust

    Twenty years ago the Selby coalfield, the most advanced of its kind, came into operation, promising jobs for life and long-term prosperity for the region. Yet today, the last of the five pits closes down. Hilary Macaskill visits the site to find out what went wrong.

September 2004

  • Did you know you can stay here?

    Hilary Macaskill takes in the baronial splendour of Kent.

August 2004

  • Letter: Bernard Levin

    Hilary Macaskill writes: One of the targets of Bernard Levin (obituary, August 10) was the NUJ London freelance branch. In 1976, he decided it needed saving from what he perceived as the left menace.

February 2004

  • You've been framed

    In keeping with the facelift Berlin has been undergoing over the past decade, the new rooms at the Propeller Island City Lodge are a real work of art, says Hilary Macaskill.

September 2002

  • Travels with Stevenson

    Author Hilary Macaskill and a donkey called Kenneth follow the route of the Scots writer 124 years ago in Haute Loire.

November 2000

  • Journey's end

    In the cemeteries of the Somme, Hilary Macaskill finds a fitting monument to the dead of the war that ended 82 years ago today

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