Today I preview the Pearly Kings & Queens Harvest Festival which takes place this Sunday 21st September, commencing with high jinks in the Guildhall yard in the City of London from 1:15pm followed by ...

These were once Watermen’s Stairs, where passengers might get picked up or dropped off, seeking transport across or along the Thames. Just as taxi drivers of contemporary London learn the Knowledge, ...

Click here for details of Walter Donohue’s screenwriting course to be held in Spitalfields on 8th & 9th November ...

As Phil Maxwell’s exuberant portraits revealed, Jil Cove was one of the most quick-witted women you could hope to meet. She first came to Whitechapel in the nineteen fifties as a nurse at the Royal ...

We were delighted to have the orchards to ourselves. But this is when you realise the world has gone mad if no-one else is interested to witness this annual spectacle that verges on the miraculous.

You are invited to join us at the private launch party for Tessa Hunkin’s Hackney Mosaic Project on Saturday 27th September from 2-5pm at the mosaic workshop in the Pavilion on Hackney Downs, Downs ...

Urban farms, food production, and salvage may be one of the best “better world” activities going! I once knew a woman who had been a refugee three times in her life and said s ...

As we begin to look ahead to the winter months I am delighted to announce two new dates for courses, offering the opportunity to come to Spitalfields and spend a convivial weekend in an eighteenth ...

I never knew there was a picture of the legendary and long-vanished Clare Market – where Joseph Grimaldi was born – until I came upon this old glass slide among many thousands in the collection of the ...

Click here for details of Walter Donohue’s screenwriting course to be held in Spitalfields on 8th & 9th November I am grateful to Sian Rees for kindly drawing my attention to The Dandy’s ...

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