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Happy Birthday, Dan Jones!
Today we celebrate the eightieth birthday of our hero, Dan Jones. Click to enlarge Dan Jones’ painting of Brick Lane 1978 In Dan Jones’ exuberant and playful painting, Brick Lane is a stage upon which...
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Danny Levy At Whitechapel Bell Foundry
The Bell Foundry Public Inquiry resumes at 10am today for the final day, including summing-up, with live-tweeting at @savethewbf. CLICK HERE TO WATCH THE INQUIRY Continuing in the long tradition of...
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Bloomsbury Jamboree On Ice
Since we cannot hold our Bloomsbury Jamboree at the Art Workers Guild this December, we have put it on ice until next year. In the meantime, in collaboration with publishing pals, Joe Pearson of...
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On Election Day
Upon this historic day in American politics, I present William Hogarth’s Election Scenes of 1755 An Election Entertainment In this parody of Leonardo’s Last Supper, an orgiastic rally is in place with...
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To Lift Your Spirits
. To lift your spirits and give you entertainment by the fireside during the long November nights, we are staging a lockdown sale, selling all titles in the Spitalfields Life Bookshop at 50% between...
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John Gillman’s Bus Ticket Collection
John Gillman, 1964 Look at this bright young lad in his snazzy red blazer with his hair so neatly combed, how he radiates intelligence and initiative – trust him to come up with a smart idea, like...
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March Of The Monoliths
Tonight at 6pm Tower Hamlets Council meet to make their decision on the monster Bishopsgate Goodsyard scheme. On Monday, Hackney Council decided to ‘support the development in principle’ and on 3rd...
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Charles Keeping, Artist
The illustrations of Charles Keeping (1924–1988) burned themselves into my consciousness as a child and I have loved his work ever since. A major figure in British publishing in the last century,...
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Doreen Fletcher, Still Standing
Commercial Cars, Commercial Rd Doreen Fletcher‘s new exhibition, STILL STANDING opens at Townhouse, Spitalfields, next Saturday 5th December. Below she introduces a selection of her new and recently...
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Roy Wild, Van Boy At The Goodsyard
Click here to watch This precedes the Greater London Assembly public hearing on Thursday 3rd December when Mayor Sadiq Khan will decide upon the monster development proposal for Bishopsgate Goodsyard...
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D-Day For Bishopsgate Goodsyard
This is a momentous day for the East End. Today Mayor of London Sadiq Khan will be making his decision on the monstrous Bishopsgate Goodsyard development, which both Tower Hamlets and Hackney Councils...
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Looking Forward To Christmas
On this cold and frosty morning, I open the fourth window on my advent calendar and look forward to the festive season. To help you find gifts to entertain you and your loved ones during the long...
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Favourite East End Artists
To help you find gifts, we are having an ADVENT SALE with all titles in our online shop half price until midnight on Sunday. Enter code ADVENT at checkout. CLICK HERE TO VISIT THE SPITALFIELDS LIFE...
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From The Pages Of My Album
We have extended our ADVENT BOOK SALE with all titles in our online shop including THE GENTLE AUTHOR’S LONDON ALBUM half price until midnight on Wednesday. Enter code ADVENT at checkout. CLICK HERE TO...
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In Search Of ‘Sparrows Can’t Sing’
Dame Barbara Windsor died on Thursday aged eighty-three. I shall always think of her wistfully as the Spitalfields Life interview that I should love to have done but which never happened. My favourite...
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At The Caslon Letter Foundry
22/23 Chiswell St with Caslon’s delivery van outside the foundry For centuries, Caslon was the default typeface in the English language. William Caslon set up his type foundry in Chiswell St in 1737,...
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Christmas Baubles
Each year on Christmas Eve, I bring in the tree at dusk, fetch the box of old glass decorations from the roof to hang upon its boughs, and set to work, decorating the tree as darkness falls I do not...
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Viscountess Boudica’s Christmas
Our dearly beloved Viscountess Boudica was evicted from her flat in Bethnal Green in 2016 and moved to Uttoxeter, be we still remember her fondly every Christmas and follow her blog Let it be said that...
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Adam Dant’s London Calendar
We are commencing the New Year with a January sale. This is your chance to stock up for the cold months ahead. All titles in the online shop are half price with the discount code JANUARY until midnight...
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James Mackinnon, Artist
To give you a chance to stock up for the cold months ahead, we are having a January sale. All titles in the online shop are half price with the discount code JANUARY until midnight on Twelfth Night....
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