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At Stationers’ Hall
‘The Word of the Lord Endures Forever’ Next time you walk up Ludgate Hill towards St Paul’s, turn left down the narrow passage just beyond the church of St Martin Within Ludgate and you will find...
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Paintings From Doreen Fletcher’s Archive
No-one was more surprised by the scale and enthusiasm of the reaction than Doreen Fletcher when I published her paintings of the East End a few weeks ago. Painted between 1983 and 2003, Doreen’s...
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Jenny Lewis’ Hackney Artists & Makers
In recent years, Photographer Jenny Lewis has been undertaking a project capturing portraits of artists and makers in their workshops and studios in Hackney, but what was initially intended as a...
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Bishopsgate Goodsyard Debate
Proposed Goodsyard Towers seen from Elder St, Spitalfields As many readers will already know, Boris Johnson, Mayor of London has chosen to bypass the democratic process by ‘calling in’ Hammerson &...
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Hogarth At Bart’s Hospital
In 1733, when William Hogarth heard that the governors of St Bartholomew’s Hospital in Smithfield were considering commissioning the Venetian artist, Jocopo Amigoni, to paint a mural in the newly...
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Liam O’Farrell’s London Markets
As you can see, Artist Liam O’Farrell loves markets of all kinds – old and new, large and small – so it is my pleasure to publish this gallery of his recent watercolour paintings celebrating this...
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Frank Foster, Shirt Maker To The Stars
Frank Foster, a legend in shirting There is an anonymous door in Pall Mall on the opposite side of the road from the line of grandiose clubs of St James. Go through this door, walk down to the...
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So Long, Rodney Archer
It is with a heavy heart that I announce the death of Rodney Archer – one of Spitalfields best-loved residents – yesterday morning at St Bartholomew’s Hospital where he was admitted on Friday Rodney...
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The Gentle Author’s Cries Of London
. It has been five years in the making but – thanks to the generous support of the readers of Spitalfields Life - I am almost ready to publish the first full-colour illustrated history of the CRIES OF...
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Introducing The Cries Of London
In anticipation of publication of CRIES OF LONDON, it is my pleasure to present this extract from the book. I hope you can join me for the LAUNCH next Thursday at Waterstones Piccadilly or the CONCERT...
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Marian Monas’ Portraits
Marian Monas has been painting her neighbours in Cable St, inspiring Contributing Photographer Sarah Ainslie to visit the subjects and photograph them with their pictures. You can see these paintings...
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The Boar’s Head Parade
Today sees the annual Boar’s Head Parade in the City of London – leaving Butcher’s Hall in Bartholomew Close, Smithfield at 3pm – to mark the beginning of the Christmas Season Drawing by Paul Bommer...
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The Players Of St Peter
Jenny Williamson as the Virgin Mary Ever since my stint as the Innkeeper, turning the Holy Family away when they knocked without reading the ‘No Vacancies’ sign, I have been in thrall to the curious...
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News From Norton Folgate
British Land’s original proposed demolition of Norton Folgate British Land’s revised proposed demolition of Norton Folgate . Can you spot the difference between the two pictures above? One is the...
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Contemplating Christ Church, Spitalfields
Owen Hopkins, Curator of Architecture at the Royal Academy & author of FROM THE SHADOWS, The Architecture & Afterlife of Nicholas Hawksmoor, published today, considers the enduring charisma of...
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The What Pub Next? Club
“I only come here to make your lives happier, I don’t enjoy it” I was delighted to be invited along to Simpsons Chop House, the oldest tavern in the City of London established 1757, to join the...
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A Map Of William Shakespeare’s Shordiche
Click on the image to enlarge & read the text on the map Spitalfields Life Contributing Artist & Cartographer Extraordinaire, Adam Dant has been working through the night in the former...
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Joe Baden & Open Book
Today it is my pleasure to introduce the fourth of five stories by the distinguished Criminologist Professor Dick Hobbs, Author of Lush Life, Constructing Organised Crime in the UK Joe Baden Growing up...
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At The Lego Exhibition
Contributing Photographer Colin O’Brien & I were among the very first through the doors at BRICK 2015, the exhibition of all things Lego at the ExCeL Centre at Royal Victoria Dock recently. Once we...
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Rodney Archer’s Christmas
Today it is my pleasure to publish this extract from Volume One of Rodney Archer’s Diary This Strange Re-collection of People (1980-88), in which he recounts a visit to his friend Dennis Severs’ House...
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