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Blues Dances
CLICK HERE TO BOOK . . . Photographer Barry Weston introduces his exuberant pictures of the Blues Dances held in Greenwich and Woolwich in the eighties, published for the first time here today. . ‘My...
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Cruikshank At The Tower Of London
CLICK HERE TO BOOK . . The Execution of Lady Jane Grey at Tower Green “It has been for years, the cherished wish of the writer of these pages to make the Tower of London the groundwork of a Romance,”...
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Clive Murphy’s Matchbox Labels
Cover price is £35 but if you order now you can buy it for £30 and you will receive a signed copy on publication in October. CLICK HERE TO ORDER A SIGNED COPY OF ENDURANCE & JOY . Clive Murphy,...
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Judith Piepe In The East End
Only three tours left this year – Saturday 12th October, Saturday 20th November and Saturday 21st December. Click here to book for next Saturday . . Peter Parker came across the remarkable figure of...
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A Ramble Through Long Forgotten London
Only three tours left this year – Saturday 12th October, Saturday 20th November and Saturday 21st December. Click here to book for this Saturday . As the dusk gathers, let us go rambling to explore...
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Richard Swallow’s Spitalfields Doors
Cover price is £35 but if you order now you can buy it for £30 and you will receive a signed copy on publication, 17th October. CLICK HERE TO ORDER A SIGNED COPY OF ENDURANCE & JOY . . 14 Fournier...
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The Battle For The Truman Brewery
Just some of the proposed office blocks the Truman Brewery . Readers will recall our campaign in 2020 to stop the owners of the Truman Brewery building an ugly shopping mall, but now they want to...
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Endurance & Joy At The Museum Of The Home
. This could never have happened without the astonishing generosity of the 500 people who contributed to the two crowd funds which made it possible. It has taken five years work to bring this together...
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On Publication Day For Endurance & Joy In The East End
. When I first published David Hoffman’s photography of Fieldgate Mansion on Spitalfields Life back in 2013, I did not know where it might lead. But over the years I published more and more of his...
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Charles Keeping’s Cockney Ding Dong
Click here to book for this afternoon’s tour . . We publish these pictures as part of the celebrations of the centenary of the birth of illustrator Charles Keeping (1924–1988) The illustrations of...
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From Ken Sequin’s Badge Collection
From hundreds in his magnificent collection, Ken Sequin kindly selected badges for me with a local connection – and they comprise an unexpected history of the East End. Button badges were invented in...
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The Little Visitors
Sian Rees introduces an unexpected discovery in the work of Maria Hack (1777 – 1844), published by Darton, Harvey & Darton of Gracechurch St in the City of London In Maria Hack’s The Little...
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Lewis Lupton In Spitalfields
Cover price is £35 but you can buy it from Spitalfields Life for £30 CLICK HERE TO ORDER A SIGNED COPY OF ENDURANCE & JOY . The Gentle Author will be giving an illustrated lecture, showing David...
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Chinnee Kaur, My Mum
Cover price is £35 but you can buy it from Spitalfields Life for £30 CLICK HERE TO ORDER A SIGNED COPY OF ENDURANCE & JOY . The Gentle Author will be giving an illustrated lecture, showing David...
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Upon The Nature Of Terror
I believe I was born with a medieval imagination. It is the only way I can explain the explicit gothic terrors of my childhood. Even lying in my cradle, I recall observing the monstrous face that...
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Peter Bellerby, Globe Maker
Peter Bellerby is speaking about his work next Thursday 7th November at 6pm at Sandys Row Synagogue, E1 7HW. Click here for tickets Just a couple of years ago, Peter Bellerby of Bellerby & Co was...
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James Mackinnon, Artist
The Gentle Author will be giving an illustrated lecture, showing David Hoffman’s photos from ENDURANCE & JOY IN TE EAST END 1971 -1987 and telling the stories behind them next Thursday 7th November...
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In William Blake’s Lambeth
Glad Day in Lambeth If you wish to visit William Blake’s Lambeth, just turn left outside Waterloo Station, walk through the market in Lower Marsh, cross Westminster Bridge Rd and follow Carlisle Lane...
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David Hoffman Speaks
Photographer David Hoffman will be in conversation with Gaynor Tutani at the Museum of the Home on Wednesday 20th November at 6:30pm, discussing his new book and exhibition ENDURANCE & JOY IN THE...
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Mickey Davis At The Fruit & Wool Exchange
Photographer David Hoffman will be in conversation with Gaynor Tutani at the Museum of the Home on Wednesday 20th November at 6:30pm, discussing his new book and exhibition ENDURANCE & JOY IN THE...
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