The female water cress sellers from Shoreditch were celebrated fir their independence of spirit.

John Allin (1934-1991) took to painting while serving a six month prison sentence for receiving some stolen shirts and ...

Summer was drawing to an end and there would be no more of the trips to Long Island that had punctuated my time in the City. Just a week earlier, on Labor Day, which marks the change in the season, ...

When I arrived to meet David Mason yesterday afternoon in the bar at Wilton’s Music Hall, the only person sitting there was a ...

Here you see Blackie, the last Spitalfields market cat, taking a nap in the premises of Williams Watercress at 11 Gun St.

This course is suitable for writers of all levels of experience – from complete beginners to those who already have a blog ...

In 1971, Photographer David Hoffman moved into a squat in Fieldgate Mansions in Whitechapel and found himself at the centre ...

Textile Consultant Martin White died on Thursday aged ninety-five. After the loss of his business partner Philip Pittack from ...

In fact, this obsolescence preserved the Ridgeway because it was never incorporated into the modern road network and remains ...

Today I publish a selection from Peta Bridle’s exhibition London Day by Day which opens tomorrow, September 3rd, at Southwark ...

Twenty-five years ago this morning, I woke in an apartment in New York City. It was around eight-thirty when my friend called from outside the bank in Midtown, where he had gone to deposit cheques. He ...

In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London ...