This is an extract selected by Hilda Kean from her book The Great Cat & Dog Massacre – The Real Story of the Second World War’s Unknown Tragedy publish ...

‘Gillian Tindall’s JOURNAL OF A MAN UNKNOWN is a novel of rare distinction. Tindall’s voice is richly her own: tender but unsentimental and lit by intimate knowledge of her chosen world.’ Colin ...

On board our auspicious voyage were Professor Jackie Sully and her brother Ron Sully, grandchildren of George Sully who commissioned the building of the Raybel over a century ago. Once the voyage was ...

I am sorry to report that Audrey Kneller died in September aged eighty. Below you can read Audrey’s candid memoir of her years in Spitalfields. In this second of two extracts, Audrey describes her ...

I am sorry to report that Audrey Kneller died in September aged eighty. Below you can read Audrey’s evocative memoir of her early years in Elder St.

This month there are two opportunities to hear Tessa Hunkin speaking about her Hackney Mosaic Project, showing the mosaics, explaining how the project started and revealing how mosaics are made. Tessa ...

Today, I publish my photoessay of House of Annetta, 25 Princelet St, a project managed by Assemble, as a prelude to James Binning’s lecture at the Bloomsbury Jamboree next weekend, telling the story ...

19 11.28.13 Joseph Markovitch, I’ve Lived In East London For Eighty-Six & A Half Years ...