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Matilda Battersby
Matilda Battersby is a journalist based in London, United Kingdom. As a freelance writer, editor, copywriter, content strategist and social media consultant I have a decade of experience working for newspapers including The Independent, The Times, i, Evening Standard, Telegraph, Daily Mail and Guardian, as well as agency clients including M&C Saatchi, Progressive Content and Mediablaze. I specialise in arts and culture, theatre, film and write features about education, health and parenting. I'm also well versed in financial news and features and writing for brands.
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Cost of building safety work sends Galliard into red
Housebuilders could be fined a combined £2.5bn if found guilty of anti-competitive behaviour
Plans to transform former hotel site into 447-home build-to-rent scheme gets green light
M&S given permission to appeal Gove’s Oxford Street refusal
Sisk brings in ISG veteran to boost London commercial team
Berkeley JV set to transform UK’s biggest Victorian gasworks cluster into 2,100-home neighbourhood
A new kind of funeral director - Long+Short Far away from the typical, austere funeral formalities, meet the people trying to rethink how we mark our deaths
Live theatre on the big screen: The fear that streaming plays in cinemas would cannibalise theatre sales has largely been disproven - The Independent
The Museum of Sex: The show of outsider artists and sex is set to shock - The Independent To coincide with the 25th Outsider Art Fair in New York, a new exhibition at the famous Manhattan gallery, the Museum of Sex, will show a collection of erotic artworks by outsider artists
Retreat looks out in anger at chicken farm - The Times A writers’ retreat known for its peace and tranquility could be ruined by the noise and smell of a farmer’s planned chicken broiling factory next door, its head has claimed.
A new gallery celebrates the work of the outsider - The Long + Short The Gallery of Everything bills itself as the first commercial space for outsider art. With the help of Jarvis Cocker it's shining a light on an unusual corner of the art world
Let’s stop marketing children’s books along gender lines - The Pool And can we cut down on the number of lady “witches” in children’s titles too, asks Matilda Battersby
7 best wheeled travel bags - The Independent Off exploring? Find yourself a convertible companion which scores highly for storage and durability
Queer British Art at Tate Britain: Is it wrong to lump LGBT art together? - The Independent Billed as ‘the first major exhibition dedicated to queer British art’, Tate Britain's brand new show, which covers gay art from 1861 to 1967, joins a host of other galleries and museums celebrating the Sexual Offences Act of 1967, that partially decriminalised male homosexuality
Too often, the art world associates genius and talent with men - The Pool Women are overlooked in visual art, with their work selling for less, and failing to turn up in galleries. Matilda Battersby reports
Unhappy valentines: Romantic disasters on holiday - The Guardian
The six annoying British families you're guaranteed to meet travelling the world - The Telegraph
Jacqueline Wilson on getting children to read, escapism and inspiring books - The Independent The bestselling author has teamed up with budget airline easyJet to fill planes taking kids abroad over the summer with “flybraries” – passenger seat pockets containing children’s classics chosen by Wilson
How to drink Korean soju - World Travel Guide The ubiquitous Korean spirit comes hedged around with rules and protocol. Matilda Battersby takes a tour
Dubai holidays with the family: how to do it right - Evening Standard newspaper It may be in the desert but there is still plenty of aqua-based fun for children of all ages, reports Matilda Battersby