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 ...

Click to enlarge this photograph To dispel my disappointment that I cannot rent that Room to Let in Old Aldgate, I find myself returning to scrutinize the collection of pictures taken by the Society ...

Today, it is my great delight to reveal these breathtaking photographs taken by Horace Warner in Spitalfields at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. These pictures which have never ...

Piccadilly, c. 1900 In my mind, I live in old London as much as I live in the contemporary London of here and now. Maybe I have spent too much time looking at photographs of old London – such as these ...

Observe this tender photograph of Raymond Scallionne and Razi Tuffano in Hatton Garden in 1948, one of the first pictures taken by Colin O’Brien – snapped when he was eight years old, the same age as ...

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 ...

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 ...

In Brick Lane these days, almost everyone carries a camera to capture the street life, whether traders, buskers, street art or hipsters parading fancy outfits. At every corner in Spitalfields, people ...