I thought I half-recognised the location as either Whitechapel or Bethnal Green and I delighted in the painting as an evocation of the streetlife of the Jewish East End in the early twentieth century.

John Olney told me it all began with two brothers, Jeremiah & Dennis O’Donovan, who came to Liverpool from Dublin in the eighteen thirties at the time of the potato famine in Ireland. Dennis took a ...

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

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

David Lewis (the former proprietor of London’s oldest ironmongers, specialised in serving the coach-building trade and operating from the same location in the Hackney Rd from 1797-2013) was the proud ...

Criminologist Dick Hobbs remembers Bobby Cummines who died on Thursday aged seventy-four “The Queen told me I had a really colourful background” Fifty years ago, working class ...

What are you to do on Mothering Sunday if you have no mother? My mother died in 2005 and each year I confront this troubling question when the annual celebration comes around.

The work of Geoffrey Fletcher (1923–2004) is an inspiration to me, and today I am publishing his drawings of London’s street people in the nineteen sixties from Geoffrey Fletcher’s Pavement Pounders ...

Dan Jones’ painting of Malcolm Johnson at Botolph’s, Aldgate 1982 With his gentle blue eyes and white locks, Reverend Dr Malcolm Johnson was one of the most even-tempered radicals that you could meet, ...

Remembering Reverend Malcom Johnson who died in February Bobbie Beecroft cuts Mr Sheridan’s hair, 1976 When photographer David Hoffman was squatting in Fieldgate Mansions in Whitechapel in the ...

This year is the tercentenary of the death of John Vanbrugh, the playwright-turned-architect who designed Castle Howard and Blenheim. Charles Saumarez Smith, former Director of the National Gallery ...