matthew hiltonGreat Uncle Ralph, a truncated arc.1. The children of the school.52 min read·Jan 22, 2024--1--1
matthew hiltonRory Stewart’s book: Politics on the edgeLife has its charms. Serendipity for example. We run a community book exchange in a small Pyrenean town and a man came in with a sack of…5 min read·Nov 29, 2023----
matthew hiltonTowards a natural history of London gangs?Whose heart does not sink when they hear of another teenage stabbing in London? I know mine does. Behind the stabbings (a proof to “get…6 min read·Aug 22, 2023----
matthew hiltonMemories and their shadowsThere are some recurring, involuntary, memories that have no shadows. The instance drops away into nothing. They are snapshots: the western…16 min read·Jun 2, 2023----
matthew hiltonI spy ChineseI moved from the countryside to a town so that I could learn to live in a population dense society. The so-called Chinese question is an…3 min read·May 7, 2023----
matthew hiltonFrance goes to war.The L.A.C. near Sigean is a two storey former warehouse now an art gallery. On the top storey is a permanent collection including Mondrian…3 min read·May 7, 2023----
matthew hiltonMy LearnerSometime in late 1993 I had an interview with Northern Foods PLC in their boardroom on the top floor of modern offices by the River Hull…8 min read·Mar 5, 2023----
matthew hiltonFessing up continuedIn the late winter of 1974 I got a job with National Car Parks Special Events Division. A firm that had made money by getting hold of bomb…5 min read·Jan 13, 2023----
matthew hiltonFessing upSuddenly I stopped working. I curtailed a series of paintings, put off the rough sketches for the next and hung up my painter’s jacket…27 min read·Nov 18, 2022----