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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

In retrospect, I recognise the equivocal nature of this experience, because I also sought a screening of The Exorcist with similar results. Perhaps I sought consolation in having my worst fears ...

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