Spitalfields Life

Gillian Tindall In the East End

‘A New East End for London… will create a new and better London, of town planning on scientific lines… [It] will make a clean sweep of two-thirds of Stepney and one-third of the neighbouring borough ...
Bloomberg L.P.

How London’s Olympic Legacy Reshaped the Forgotten East End

Along the banks of the Waterworks River in east London sit several pristine parks, a state-of-the-art ballet theater, a fashion school and a Zaha Hadid-designed aquatics center, once used in the 2012 ...

London hotel with a pretentious name is surprisingly laid-back

For a hotel with such a pretentious name, art’Otel London Hoxton is surprisingly laid-back and welcoming. Shoreditch will not ...
The Conversation

Cockney Yiddish: how two languages influenced each other in London’s East End

Nadia Valman received funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council for research included in this article. Vivi Lachs received funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council for ...
NPR

'A Thousand Blows' packs a punch as it chronicles London's Victorian-era boxing scene

Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight has a new period drama, set in 1880s London and featuring a cast of tough, yet vulnerable characters trying to outwit and outlast competing criminal elements. This ...
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EastEnders star Anita Dobson: East London has become 'unrecognisable'

• Anita Dobson said her childhood home of Stepney Green and Brick Lane has become ‘unrecognisable’ after a recent visit • The EastEnders star reflected on how the East End has grown more cosmopolitan, ...