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

Remarkably, Paul Pindar’s house survived the Great Fire along with the rest of Bishopsgate which preserved its late-medieval character, lined with shambles and grand mansions, until it was redeveloped ...

At the end of each week, Dad gave his unopened pay-packet to Mum. She kept it so if the family needed money in India she could get it. They never had a bank account, but had a way of hiding valuables ...

Is your purse or wallet like mine, bulging with old trade cards? Do you always take a card from people handing them out in the street, just to be friendly? Do you pick up interesting cards in idle ...

It is my pleasure to publish this extract from Gillian Tindall’s novel Journal of a Man Unknown which describes a nocturnal vision that is granted to the protagonist in Mile End ...

But if you were interested in local history, then Stanley was one of the most remarkable people you could hope to meet, because his great-great-great-great-great-great-grandfather Jean Rondeau was a ...

Built in the twenties and opened in 1930, the West India Docks Impounding Station is a shining marvel of engineering that is maintained in constant good working order today by the Canal & River Trust.

We are delighted to announce that – due to popular demand – script editor, producer and luminary of the British cinema, Walter Donohue has agreed to teach another two-day screenwriting course at ...

Remembering Stanley Rondeau who died on 13th January aged ninety-two. Stanley Rondeau’s great-great-great-great-great-great-grandfather Jean Rondeau was a Huguenot silk weaver w ...

Cabaret producer and stripper, Lara Clifton, interviewed Maedb Joy, a poet of extraordinary moral courage who has created Sexquisite, a cabaret of performers with lived experience of sex work.