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 ...