Commemorating the ninetieth anniversary of the Battle of Cable St today. Max Levitas (1915-2018) by Phil Maxwell. Max Levitas ...

Commemorating the ninetieth anniversary of the Battle of Cable St. Portrait of Beattie Orwell by Phil Maxwell.

In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London ...

Often when I set out for a walk from Spitalfields, my footsteps lead me to the crossroads outside the Bank of England , at ...

The great majority of my stories were written beneath this quilt that I made a few years ago and which has special meaning ...

Click here to book for my tours In response to the nights closing in, I have been spending more time under my quilt. The great majority of my stories were written beneath this quilt that I made a few ...

Petticoat Lane Photographer Charles Chusseau-Flaviens came to London from Paris and took these pictures, reproduced courtesy of George Eastman House, before the First World War – mostly likely in 1911 ...

Click here to book The door to Parliament Look at all the doors where the dead people walked in and out. These are the doors of old London. Some are inviting you in and some are shutting you out.

You will not meet many who can boast the distinction of being brought up on the teeming thoroughfare of Bishopsgate but ...

Regular readers will be aware of the superlative work of Tessa Hunkin’s Hackney Mosaic Project and the book we published last year celebrating their achievements. Now the existence of the Project is ...

Yesterday, I cycled over Tower Bridge to join the happy throng at Surrey Docks Farm in Rotherhithe where Tessa Hunkin’s Hackney Mosaic Project have installed three new mosaics. More than fifty people ...

My mother is the first to admit that when it comes to growing anything, the success rate cannot be predicted – some years are simply better than others. But this summer has, on the whole, been a good ...