‘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 evocative memoir of her early years in Elder St.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Culminating a distinguished career spanning more than sixty years, historian Gillian Tindall wrote Journal Of A Man Unknown as her final statement. In an astonishing feat of literary imagination, she ...

“A very nice gentleman – well turned out – stood in my doorway and asked, ‘Charles Dickens doesn’t live here anymore, does he?'” Maureen admitted to me with a sly grin. “I said, ‘No, he doesn’t.’ And ...

You are invited to our annual BLOOMSBURY JAMBOREE which runs from 10:30am-4:30pm, Saturday 15th & Sunday 16th November at Art Workers’ Guild, 6 Queen Sq, WC1N 3AT. We are showing the work of our ...

This statement prompted Maurice to remember with visible pleasure that he still had a collection of World War II shells in the cellar and, of course, the reinforced steel shed in the garden full of ...

Thanks in no small part to the generosity of you – the readers of Spitalfields Life – Taylors Buttons & Belts is saved. On Friday, I published my post about the crowdfund to raise £17,000 and by ...

In gleeful collaboration with Tim Mainstone of Mainstone Press and Joe Pearson of Design for Today, I am hosting our annual BLOOMSBURY JAMBOREE, a festival of books and print, illustration, talks and ...