The Save Brick Lane campaign is a coalition of local community and heritage groups including Bangladeshi East End Heritage Society, East End Preservation Society, East End Trades Guild, House of ...

Richard Swallow introduces his exhibition of new paintings of the East End, the Thames and further afield, CITYSCAPE which opens at Townhouse next Saturday 19th October and runs until Sunday 3rd ...

It has taken five years work to bring this together and I am so proud to share it now. The exhibition opens at the Museum of the Home tomorrow and the book is published on Thursday. It was my great ...

This was how Londoners of the late nineteenth century looked back upon the city that had gone within living memory, a London that was already vanishing into reminiscence and anecdote in their time – a ...

Ben Shapiro has lived much of his life outside this country, since he left as a youth with his family to go to America where they found the healthier existence they sought, and escaped the racism and ...

Jeanette Crawley sent me her transcript of ten pages of a memoir written in 1935 by her great-grandfather William Henry Knapp (1872-1952), describing his early life working in the City of London for a ...

In 1963, Stepney councillor and social worker Edith Ramsay was corresponding with a young priest called Kenneth Leech about her difficulties dealing with immigrants and homosexual men in the borough.

As the dusk gathers, let us go rambling to explore the sights of long forgotten London in the volumes of Walter Thornbury’s London Old & New. It is a shadowy realm, conjured as if from a dream or ...

Spend a winter weekend with me in an eighteenth century weaver’s house in Spitalfields, eat cakes freshly baked to historic recipes, enjoy delicious lunches catered by Townhouse and learn how to write ...