We want everyone who loves the East End to have a copy of David Hoffman’s wonderful photography book ENDURANCE & JOY IN THE EAST END 1971 – 1987, so we have reduced the price from £35 to £2o until ...

Remembering writer and historian Gillian Tindall who died on 1st October, I am publishing her account of the origins of Whitechapel. Altab Ali ...

Each year in December, we get a couple of days of intense sunlight transforming Christ Church Spitalfields. At this time when the sun is at its lowest angle, the church becomes an intricate light box ...

Today I remember my old cat, Mr Pussy. This is an extract from the biography I wrote of him, THE LIFE & TIMES OF MR PUSSY.

Click here to buy a signed copy of the CRIES OF LONDON. IN THE MIDST OF LIFE I WAKE in the dark city of my dreaming. It is the bellman that wakes me before dawn, crying wearily Pa ...

Mistletoe’s ability to flourish in the depths of winter has made it as a symbol of fertility and life through the centuries, but it was the Victorians who popularised the ‘kissing ball’, a collection ...

In celebration of the 100th birthday yesterday of Sally Flood, the Whitechapel poet, here are a selection of her poems accompanied with photographs by John Claridge. Life has many doorways To educate ...

This year, Robson has made affordable houses at £45 each and every one is fitted with a solar panel. If you leave it on a window sill, it will charge in daylight, light up automatically at dusk and ...

“I had always written, as a child,” admitted Sally Flood with a shrug, “but it wasn’t stuff you showed.” For years, when her thoughts wandered whilst working in the factory in Princelet St, Sally ...

If you were to take a turning off the Strand, walk down Essex St, then descend Milford Stairs to Milford Lane, emerging within the shadow of the nineteenth century edifice of Two Temple Place, then ...

I am delighted to publish these extracts from BUG WOMAN LONDON – a graduate of my blog writing course who has been publishing posts online for over ten years now. The author set out to explore our ...

Butchers, Hoxton St c.1910 Are you short of cash and weary of Christmas shopping? Why not consider visiting the shops of old London instead? There are no supermarkets or malls but plenty of other ...