Max Lea was one of those who shared in the lively camaraderie engendered at the Cambridge & Bethnal Green Boys’ Club, which was based nearby in Chance St, where the boys met each evening to let off ...
It is an Almanack of 1776 belonging to fourteen-year-old Susannah Dalbiac, whose father Charles Dalbiac was a silk & velvet merchant who ran the family business with his brother James at 20 Spital Sq.
In response to the nights closing in, I have been spending more time under my quilt The great majority of my stories were written beneath this quilt that I made a few years ago and which has special ...
It is my delight to present John Dempsey’s street portraits from the eighteen-twenties held in the collection of the Tasmanian Museum & Art Gallery. Originally attributed to George Scharf, they were ...
Cover price is £35 but if you order now you can buy it for £30 and you will receive a signed copy on publication in October. CLICK HERE TO ORDER A SIGNED COPY OF ENDURANCE & JOY ...
For good reason John Thomas Smith acquired the nickname ‘Antiquity Smith’ – while working as Keeper of Drawings at the British Museum, between 1790 & 1800, he produced a large series of etchings ...
When he was a young photographer, David Hoffman came to live in a squat in Fieldgate Mansions in Whitechapel and it changed his life. Over the following years, he documented homelessness, racism and ...
Losing his hair in his thirties, Cyril Mann had the look of a man older than his years. Through the Depression he had been unemployed and close to starvation, yet thanks to a trust fund set up by ...
Peanuts, Tower Hill – “We’ve only been doin’ this for a few months, me peanut pram and I. I only comes twice a week, Saturdays and Sundays. Sundays is best. It’s a hot day. Hope it will stay. I’m ...
Our crowdfund closed yesterday and, thanks to the generous contributions of 180 readers of Spitalfields Life, we raised £10,952 in twenty-eight days. Consequently, I am overjoyed to be able to confirm ...
In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London ...
Cover price is £35 but if you order now you can buy it for £30 and you will receive a signed copy on publication in October. At the top of Brick Lane, there was once a nest of densely populated ...
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