Everyone knows Cheddar, Stilton, Wensleydale and Caerphilly, but there is an unexpected new location on the cheese map of Great Britain. It is Bermondsey and the man responsible is William Oglethorpe ...

Remembering writer and historian Gillian Tindall who died on 1st October, I am publishing her account of her first job in a bookshop in Ship Tavern Passage in the City of London in the fifties.

If you are seeking Christmas presents for family and friends, you need look no further because Spitalfields Life Books make ideal gifts which you can have personally inscribed by The Gentle Author ...

The Romans introduced walnut trees into this country and they have been cultivated here ever since, but you would have to go a long way these days to find anyone farming walnuts. Contributing ...

Favourite illustrator Marion Elliot has spread her wings and taken flight with this superlative series of large papercut collages for the Shop Floor Project. T ...

When the genial Leo Epstein, proprietor of Epra Fabrics said to me, “I am the last Jewish trader on Brick Lane,” he said it with such a modest balanced tone that I knew he was just stating a fact and ...

Visiting in 1966, with the squares on their last legs, the historian and journalist Ian Nairn, who wrote so perceptively about the “soft-spoken this-is-good-for-you castration of the East End,” summed ...

Here are the East Enders of the nineteen seventies as pictured by photographer Tony Bock in the days when he worked for the East London Advertiser – the poncey dignitaries, the comb-over tories, the ...

Contributing Photographer Sarah Ainslie & I made the trip over to Leytonstone to pay homage to Cordelia – known as ‘Dee’ – Tocqueville, the undisputed queen of East End Lollipop Ladies, who has been ...

We are delighted to join the annual book sale at Tower Hamlets Archives this Saturday 6th December. The archive will be selling duplicate copies from their collection and we will have a stall with the ...

‘A New East End for London… will create a new and better London, of town planning on scientific lines… [It] will make a clean sweep of two-thirds of Stepney and one-third of the neighbouring borough ...

At this moment of the year, when the temperature drops and the dusk closes in, I get a longing to go walking through Walter Thornbury’s London ...