Thanks in no small part to the generosity of you – the readers of Spitalfields Life – Taylors Buttons & Belts is saved. On Friday, I published my post about the crowdfund to raise £17,000 and by ...

You are invited to our annual BLOOMSBURY JAMBOREE which runs from 10:30am-4:30pm, Saturday 15th & Sunday 16th November at Art Workers’ Guild, 6 Queen Sq, WC1N 3AT. We are showing the work of our ...

In gleeful collaboration with Tim Mainstone of Mainstone Press and Joe Pearson of Design for Today, I am hosting our annual BLOOMSBURY JAMBOREE, a festival of books and print, illustration, talks and ...

“A very nice gentleman – well turned out – stood in my doorway and asked, ‘Charles Dickens doesn’t live here anymore, does he?'” Maureen admitted to me with a sly grin. “I said, ‘No, he doesn’t.’ And ...

In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London ...

This is the face of the dead man in Clerkenwell. He does not look perturbed by the change in the weather. Once winters wore him out, but now he rests beneath the streets of the modern city he will ...

In retrospect, I recognise the equivocal nature of this experience, because I also sought a screening of The Exorcist with similar results. Perhaps I sought consolation in having my worst fears ...