I learnt the Cat Lady has a name, Joan Lauder, and in Clive’s portrait above you see her sitting in his kitchen at 132 Brick Lane, dictating into a tape recorder and looking uncannily feline in her ...

St Pancras Town Hall, now Camden Town Hall, where Cecil Osborne’s murals originally hung and where they are now displayed once more.

Some of my earliest crayon drawings are of snowdrops, and the annual miracle of bulbs erupting out of the barren earth never ceases to touch my heart – an emotionalism amplified in a cemetery to see ...

In The Cockney Yiddish Podcast, launching today, Professor Nadia Valman, professor of urban literature and Dr Vivi Lachs, performer, researcher & translator of Yiddish culture, explore the unknown ...

Conceived in homage to Geoffrey Fletcher and “The London Nobody Knows,” artist Joanna Moore introduces you to lesser-known corners of Spitalfields. (You can click on these pictures to enlarge them if ...

The London Bell Foundry seeks to acquire the Grade II* listed buildings as a permanent home for the London Bell Foundry. They want to open it as a fully-working foundry, re-establishing the world’s ...

When William Nicholson designed his stylish “London Types” in 1898 – that together with his “Almanac of Twelve Sports” and “An Illustrated Alphabet” were to make his reputation as a printmaker – his ...

On Valentine’s Day, I cannot help thinking back to the days when we had Viscountess Boudica of Bethnal Green to make the East End a more colourful place, before she was ‘socially cleansed’ to ...

When William Nicholson designed his stylish “London Types” in 1898 – that together with his “Almanac of Twelve Sports” and “An Illustrated Alphabet” were to make his reputation as a printmaker – his ...