In the week after the City of London Corporation voted to close Smithfield and Billingsgate Markets for good, I publish my account of a night at the market in the company of legendary fishmonger ...
In the week after the City of London Corporation voted to close Smithfield and Billingsgate Markets for good, we publish Claudia Lesinger‘s portraits of the last porters of Billingsgate who 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 ...
When I first came across a reference to Simon Costin’s notion to create the Museum of British Folklore, I knew it was a stroke of genius. So you can imagine my excitement when I visited him and his ...
You are invited to our annual BLOOMSBURY JAMBOREE which runs from 10:30am-4:30pm next weekend, Saturday 7th & Sunday 8th December at Art Workers’ Guild, 6 Queen Sq, WC1N 3AT. We are showing the work ...
The closure of Smithfield Market ends over 800 years of trading meat in Central London as part of a wider trend to sanitise inner cities with less palatable aspects of urban life kept out of sight.’ ...
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 ...
Photographer Chris Kelly and I went along to join Dan Jones when he paid a visit to his splendid mural from 1977 of children and their rhymes in the playground of St Paul’s School, Wellclose Sq, which ...
I present these extracts to give you a flavour of AS Jasper’s memoir of growing up in the East End at the beginning of the twentieth century, A HOXTON CHILDHOOD, which was acclaimed as a classic when ...