The particular theatre I have in mind is the Grecian Theatre attached to the Eagle Tavern in Shepherdess Walk, City Road between Angel and Old St. The place seems to have developed quite a reputation, ...

There would be no mass Yiddish tomorrow as dreamed of by the linguists of Czernowitz. But still Yiddish thrived in London, as it did all over the world, leaving in its wake a voluminous and varied ...

Writer & biographer M. Syd Rosen is on a quest to discover his family’s past and explore the significance of Yiddish culture today My grandfather’s cousins’ butcher’s shop in Wentworth St photographed ...

Thanks to the generosity of 230 readers who contributed to our crowdfund and some other donors, we have raised the budget for Tessa Hunkin’s Hackney Mosaic Project which will be published on Thursday ...

The presence of William Morris in the East End is almost forgotten today. Yet he took the District Line from his home in Hammersmith regularly to speak here through the last years of his life, despite ...

In the eighties, Contributing Photographer Sarah Ainslie photographed the street performers of Covent Garden and her pictures are currently being exhibited at Paul Smith, 40-43 Floral St, WC2E 9TB ...

All I can say is Dorothy deserves a plaque in the school . Such teachers are rare like gold on a beer stained table . I got told by a family member that when he was at school the ...

When I visited Harry the Pencil in Mile End once, he showed me this modest little sketchbook that he filled when he was working in Great Sutton St, Clerkenwell, undertaking a single half hour drawing ...

The crowdfund for Tessa Hunkin’s Hackney Mosaic Project book closes at midnight next Saturday May 17th ...

I have walked past William Morris’ former house on the river bank in Hammersmith many times and always wondered what it was like inside but, since it is now a private dwelling, I never expected to ...