As Phil Maxwell’s exuberant portraits revealed, Jil Cove was one of the most quick-witted women you could hope to meet. She first came to Whitechapel in the nineteen fifties as a nurse at the Royal ...

You are invited to join us at the private launch party for Tessa Hunkin’s Hackney Mosaic Project on Saturday 27th September from 2-5pm at the mosaic workshop in the Pavilion on Hackney Downs, Downs ...

Click here for details of Walter Donohue’s screenwriting course to be held in Spitalfields on 8th & 9th November I am grateful to Sian Rees for kindly drawing my attention to The Dandy’s ...

Years ago when I first visited the National Collection of Fruit Trees at Brogdale outside Faversham in Kent to enjoy the spring blossom, I vowed to go back in the autumn to admire the crop. This year, ...

Urban farms, food production, and salvage may be one of the best “better world” activities going! I once knew a woman who had been a refugee three times in her life and said s ...

As we begin to look ahead to the winter months I am delighted to announce two new dates for courses, offering the opportunity to come to Spitalfields and spend a convivial weekend in an eighteenth ...

Help publication by preordering now and we will post you a copy signed by Tessa Hunkin at the end of September in advance of publication on October 2nd. Additionally, we are including a complimentary ...

Anna Maria Garthwaite, the most celebrated texile designer of the eighteenth century, bought this house in Spitalfields when she was forty years old in 1728, just five years after it was built. Its ...

The Blue Anchor brewery became the second largest in London producing 20,252 barrels of beer a year. In the nineteenth century, steam engines were installed which ran until 1927, when they were ...

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

‘Many of these paintings were made in kitchens, the heart of any house, café or restaurant. Places that are often a repository of things we have collected, things that have been handed down to us and ...