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So Long, Huguenots Of Spitalfields
A few places are available for my last-ever course HOW TO WRITE A BLOG THAT PEOPLE WILL WANT TO READ on November 20th & 21st. This is your final chance to come to Spitalfields and spend a weekend...
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Eleanor Crow’s ‘Step Inside’
A few places are available for my last-ever course HOW TO WRITE A BLOG THAT PEOPLE WILL WANT TO READ on November 20th & 21st. This is your final chance to come to Spitalfields and spend a weekend...
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At The Drapers’ Hall
The Drawing Room As long ago as 1180, the Drapers in the City of London formed a Guild to protect their interests as small traders and help members who fell into distress. The full title of the...
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How To Eat A Pomegranate
Now is the season for pomegranates. All over the East End, I have spotted them gleaming in enticing piles upon barrows and Leila’s Shop in Calvert Avenue usually has a particularly magnificent display...
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The Bread, Cake & Biscuit Walk
This biscuit was sent home in the mail during World War I As regular readers will already know, I have a passion for all the good things that come from the bakery. So I decided to take advantage of...
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David Garrick In Aldgate
“Have mercy, Heaven” – David Garrick as Richard III This nineteenth century Staffordshire figure upon my dresser illustrates a pivotal moment in British theatre, when David Garrick made his debut aged...
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Autumn At Spitalfields City Farm
Click here to order your Spitalfields City Farm Calendar for £10 with Rachel Ferriman’s photographs from these features The final of four features in collaboration with Contributing Photographer Rachel...
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Bloomsbury Jamboree 2021
. In gleeful collaboration with Tim Mainstone of Mainstone Press and Joe Pearson of Design for Today, I am hosting the BLOOMSBURY JAMBOREE, a two-day festival of books and print, illustration, talks...
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Bloomsbury Jamboree Lectures & Readings
. You are invited to our BLOOMSBURY JAMBOREE which runs from 11am-5pm on Saturday 11th & Sunday 12th December at Art Workers’ Guild, 6 Queen Sq, WC1N 3AT. We are showing the work of our twenty...
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Marion Elliot, Printmaker & Illustrator
I am delighted to introduce the work of Marion Elliot which will be featured at the BLOOMSBURY JAMBOREE. We hope you will come along and meet Marion at her stall on 11th & 12th December at the Art...
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The Return Of Sail Cargo To The Thames
At the BLOOMSBURY JAMBOREE at the Art Workers’ Guild on 11th & 12th December we will be featuring produce from small farmers delivered to London by sail boat. At 1:30pm on Sunday 12th December you...
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My East End Vernacular Lecture
My illustrated lecture on EAST END VERNACULAR, Artists Who Painted London’s East End Streets in the 20th Century, including all the artists whose works are below, at the BLOOMSBURY JAMBOREE at the Art...
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Robson Cezar’s Wooden Houses From Whitechapel
. In recent weeks, you may have spotted Spitalfields artist Robson Cezar collecting wooden fruit crates in Whitechapel Market on the way to his studio in Bow, where he has been making them into wooden...
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George Cruikshank’s Festive Season
As we brace ourselves for the forthcoming festive season, let us contemplate George Cruikshank‘s illustrations of yuletide in London 1838-53 from his Comic Almanack which remind us how much has changed...
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Matilda Moreton & The Cries Of London
When I met ceramicist Matilda Moreton, I knew that she was one after my own heart in her love for THE CRIES OF LONDON. So I am delighted that Matilda will be presenting her work at the BLOOMSBURY...
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The Lantern Slides Of Old London
Hundreds of lantern slides from the London & Middlesex Archaeological Society Collection are published in THE GENTLE AUTHOR’S LONDON ALBUM, making it the ideal present for lovers of London’s...
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Walk Through Time With The Gentle Author
Map of the Gentle Author’s Tour drawn by Adam Dant In celebration of the festive season, I shall be hosting a walk on Boxing Day at noon. Ramble with me through two thousand years of culture in the...
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Readings At Midwinter
Sarah Winman On Midwinter’s Night, 21st December at 6:30pm, I shall be giving a reading with my friend, novelist Sarah Winman, at BURLEY FISHER BOOKS in Haggerston. Sarah will be reading from her...
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Robson Cezar’s Whitechapel Houses For Sale
ALL ROBSON CEZAR’S HOUSES ARE SOLD! Spitalfields artist Robson Cezar has put twenty-five of the wooden houses he has made from fruit crates from Whitechapel Market for sale at £30 each, plus £4 postage...
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The Dinners Of Old London
Dinner at the Mercers’ Hall, c.1910 Is that your stomach rumbling or is it the sound of distant thunder I hear? To assuage your hunger, let us pass the time until we eat by studying these old glass...
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