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Fiona grew up in the Scottish Borders and has spent much of her adult life moving between cities — Edinburgh, Manchester, then London — before eventually settling in York. She spent three years writing a travel column for a regional Sunday supplement and has since gone freelance. Her work focuses on discovering overlooked corners of Britain: coastal villages, inland market towns, walking routes with a good pub at the end. She is an enthusiastic but admittedly slow runner and keeps a sporadic travel journal she has never shown anyone.

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The Art of the Silhouette: How Screen Style Shapes Our Wardrobes
Style

From Screen to Street: How Costume Design Shapes Everyday Style

Costume design does more than make characters look convincing. Clothing helps establish period, class, occupation, mood and personality before a character says very...

Capturing the Essence of August Through Creative Journaling
Lifestyle

An August Journal: Keeping Small Pieces of the British Summer

August is a good month for keeping a journal because it produces so much disposable evidence: train tickets, exhibition leaflets, café receipts, pressed...

The Timeless Appeal of Clerkenwell: A London Enclave
Travel

Clerkenwell: Layers of Craft, Architecture and London Life

Clerkenwell sits between the City, Bloomsbury and Islington, but its appeal is not that it feels untouched by London. Quite the opposite: the...

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Culture

The Light Opens in Durham With a Major Exhibition on Light

A new cultural venue opens in Durham on 22 August, bringing contemporary art, local history and a restored museum building back into public...

Culture

Terrane Turns Jewellery Into a Map of Place and Memory

Amid the noise of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, a small jewellery exhibition in Stockbridge is asking visitors to look at landscape in a...

People

Small Talk in Britain and Why Brief Encounters Still Matter

Small talk is easy to underestimate because, by definition, very little appears to happen. A remark about the weather, a few words with...

Home

Community Gardens and the Shared Life Growing Between the Beds

Community gardens are easy to romanticise. A few raised beds, a shed and a line of beans can quickly become shorthand for neighbourliness,...

Style

Personal Style After 40: Dressing With More Freedom, Not More Rules

Style after 40 does not need a rescue plan. It also does not arrive with a universal set of rules about hemlines, colour,...

Food

Home Baking and the Everyday Pleasure of Making Something From Scratch

Home baking does not need to be described as a revival, a form of therapy or an antidote to modern life to be...