Master wood carver Hugh Wedderburn took me on a quest in search of Grinling Gibbons in the City of London. Gibbons was born in Rotterdam in 1648, where he trained as wood carver and was exposed to the ...

This is the face of the dead man in Clerkenwell. He does not look perturbed by the change in the weather. Once winters wore him out, but now he rests beneath the streets of the modern city he will ...

It has taken five years work to bring this together and I am so proud to share it now. The exhibition opens at the Museum of the Home tomorrow and the book is published on Thursday. It was my great ...

This is the face of the dead man in Clerkenwell. He does not look perturbed by the change in the weather. Once winters wore him out, but now he rests beneath the streets of the modern city he will ...

This was how Londoners of the late nineteenth century looked back upon the city that had gone within living memory, a London that was already vanishing into reminiscence and anecdote in their time – a ...

The Save Brick Lane campaign is a coalition of local community and heritage groups including Bangladeshi East End Heritage Society, East End Preservation Society, East End Trades Guild, House of ...

Peter Parker came across the remarkable figure of Judith Piepe (1920-2003) while researching ‘male vice’ in the East End for the second volume of his anthology Some Men in London: Queer Life, ...

This could never have happened without the astonishing generosity of the 500 people who contributed to the two crowd funds which made it possible. It has taken five years work to bring this together ...

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. It is my delight to present John Dempsey’s street portraits from the ...