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 ...
Alfred Solomons of 195 Caledonian Rd is another name I found here in Spitalfields on a couple of manhole covers, with some rather fetching, almost orientalist, nineteenth century flourishes. I ...
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 ...
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.
Stanley Rondeau’s great-great-great-great-great-great-grandfather Jean Rondeau was a Huguenot silk weaver who came to Spitalfields in 1685 as a refugee fleeing religious persecution in Paris. Jean’s ...
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 ...
Stanley Rondeau’s great-great-great-great-great-great-grandfather Jean Rondeau was a Huguenot silk weaver who came to Spitalfields in 1685 as a refugee fleeing religious persecution in Paris. Jean’s ...