Born in Brockley, Dorothy lived with her parents, her elder sister and younger brother for most of her life. After training as an Art teacher, she taught at a school in the north west of England for ...

The crowdfund for Tessa Hunkin’s Hackney Mosaic Project book closes at midnight next Saturday May 17th ...

When I visited Harry the Pencil in Mile End once, he showed me this modest little sketchbook that he filled when he was working in Great Sutton St, Clerkenwell, undertaking a single half hour drawing ...

London Fire Brigade has a collection of paintings by the ‘Firemen Artists’ – including some women – who witnessed the terror and turmoil of the Blitz, and ...

Let me introduce Andy Strowman, the poet of Stepney. ‘I’ve kept quiet for long periods of my life,’ Andy confessed to me when I met him. ‘I hope this interview will help people not to be ashamed and ...

On the day after the 80th anniversary of VE Day, it is my pleasure to introduce this piece of short fiction set in the Blitz specially written for Spitalfields Life by Kate Griffin author of Kitty ...

Today is the eightieth anniversary of Victory in Europe Day, May 8th 1945, ending the Second World War. A new exhibition on this subject, PATCHED NARRATIVES by Sarah Gray, Laura Roberts Bevan, Sarah ...

“I’m not really an East Ender, I’m more of a Bow boy,” asserted Alfred Daniels with characteristic precision of thought, when I enquired of his origin. “My parents left the East End, because they were ...