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Keren McConnell’s Fruit Wrappers
This is the season for oranges and lemons, so I was more than delighted when Keren McConnell kindly sent me her glorious fruit wrapper collection from the seventies to share with you. If any other...
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Philip Marriage’s Date Box Labels
Philip Marriage sent me his fascinating collection of date box labels with their ingenious typography and curious array of Orientalist fantasies. How startled I was to recognise one design in...
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Grace Oscroft, Painter
Spring begins in the northern hemisphere with the vernal equinox this weekend. In celebration, we are having a SPRING SALE with all titles in the Spitalfields Life Bookshop at half price. Enter...
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Harry T. Harmer, Painter
Spring begins in the northern hemisphere this week. In celebration, we are having a SPRING SALE with all titles in the Spitalfields Life Bookshop at half price. Enter ‘SPRING’ at checkout to claim your...
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The Trade Cards Of Old London
Spring begins in the northern hemisphere this week. In celebration, we are having a SPRING SALE with all titles in the Spitalfields Life Bookshop at half price. Enter ‘SPRING’ at checkout to claim your...
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Roland Collins, Artist
In celebration of the beginning of spring, we are having a sale with all titles in the Spitalfields Life Bookshop at half price. Enter ‘SPRING’ at checkout to claim your discount. . Click here to visit...
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Elwin Hawthorne, Painter
In celebration of spring, we are having a sale with all titles in the Spitalfields Life Bookshop at half price. Enter ‘SPRING’ at checkout to claim your discount. . Click here to visit the Spitalfields...
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More Brick Lane Events
Our spring sale with all titles in the Spitalfields Life Bookshop at half price continues until Easter Monday. Enter ‘SPRING’ at checkout to claim your discount. Click here to visit the Spitalfields...
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Albert Turpin, Painter
Our spring sale ends on Easter Monday at midnight. Enter ‘SPRING’ at checkout to claim your discount. . Click here to visit the Spitalfields Life online bookshop . Albert Turpin’s paintings are...
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Ernest George’s Old London Etchings
Aldgate Stefan Dickers, Archivist at Bishopsgate Institute, introduced me to these fine copper plate etchings by Ernest George (1839-1922). In the eighteen-eighties, George set out to immortalise...
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Voices From Brick Lane’s Jewish Past
I am delighted to announce more in the ongoing series of free webinars presented by the Spitalfields Trust as part of the Save Brick Lane campaign The meeting at which Tower Hamlets Council decides...
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Matchbox Models By Lesney & Company
It is my pleasure to publish the Matchbox 1966 Collector’s Guide & International Catalogue by Lesney Products & Co Ltd of Hackney Wick (courtesy of Libby Hall). The company was founded by...
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Cruikshank’s London Almanac, 1835
In 1835, George Cruikshank drew these illustrations of the notable seasons and festivals of the year in London for The Comic Almanack published by Charles Tilt of Fleet St. Produced from 1835 – 53,...
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Piggott Brothers Of Bishopsgate
With shops reopening today, bars and restaurants able to serve food and drink outdoors, and up to six people from two households permitted to meet in a garden, I thought this might be the ideal moment...
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At Annetta Pedretti’s House
Yesterday I took these photographs of Annetta Pedretti’s eighteenth century house in Princelet St as an introduction to tonight’s free lecture by Louis Schulz of the architectural collective,...
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Nicholas Borden’s Lockdown Paintings
Through all the chaos and disaster of the past year, Nicholas Borden has been painting continuously and produced an inspirational body of more than thirty splendid new works of visionary intensity of...
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Bethnal Green Mulberry Campaign News
Ice Cream Maker Kitty Travers tastes her Mulberry sorbet . People sometimes say ‘I’d give my right arm…’ when expressing a heartfelt wish. It almost happened to me – quite literally – when I fell out...
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The Good News & The Bad News
The GOOD NEWS is we have only £3,168 left to raise of the £10,000 we need to pay for a top QC and barrister to represent us at the High Court on 5th & 6th May in our fight to save the 500-year-old...
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Franta Belsky’s Sculpture in Bethnal Green
The Lesson by Franta Belsky (1959) For years, I passed Franta Belsky’s bronze sculpture in Bethnal Green every Sunday on my way to and from the flower market in Columbia Rd without knowing the name of...
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James Boswell’s East End
A few years ago, I visited a leafy North London suburb to meet Ruth Boswell – an elegant woman with an appealing sense of levity – and we sat in her beautiful garden surrounded by raspberries and...
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