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 ...

Arful Nessa in her garden in Puma Court. My mother is the first to admit tha ...

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

‘Please help the Hackney Mosaic Project retain a work space in Hackney Downs. We have been there for over twelve years and ...

Yesterday, I cycled over Tower Bridge to join the happy throng at Surrey Docks Farm in Rotherhithe where Tessa Hunkin’s ...

Nothing prepared me for the seemingly infinite variety of fruit that exists in nature. Walking into an orchard of two-thousand-two-hundred varieties of apple, all in fruit, is a vertiginous prospect ...

By coincidence, two readers – Christine Osborne & Janice Oliver – both sent me photographs of their ancestors who produced and sold soft drinks in the East End – Brandon’s Mineral Waters of Virginia ...

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 ...