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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

The Blue Anchor brewery became the second largest in London producing 20,252 barrels of beer a year. In the nineteenth century, steam engines were installed which ran until 1927, when they were ...

Anna Maria Garthwaite, the most celebrated texile designer of the eighteenth century, bought this house in Spitalfields when she was forty years old in 1728, just five years after it was built. Its ...

In 1711 Nicholas Hawksmoor was fifty years old yet, although he had already worked with Christopher Wren on St Paul’s Cathedral and for John Vanbrugh on Castle Howard, the buildings that were to make ...