The Fan Museum in Greenwich is the brainchild of Helene Alexander who has devoted her life with an heroic passion to assembling the world’s greatest collection of fans – which currently stands at over ...

19 11.28.13 Joseph Markovitch, I’ve Lived In East London For Eighty-Six & A Half Years ...

I found Lucinda Rogers’ drawing on the wall in one of the small upper rooms that now serves as an informal museum of the history of the cafe, curated by Maria Pellicci’s nephew – Toni, a bright-eyed ...

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

Remarkably, Paul Pindar’s house survived the Great Fire along with the rest of Bishopsgate which preserved its late-medieval character, lined with shambles and grand mansions, until it was redeveloped ...

At the end of each week, Dad gave his unopened pay-packet to Mum. She kept it so if the family needed money in India she could get it. They never had a bank account, but had a way of hiding valuables ...

Is your purse or wallet like mine, bulging with old trade cards? Do you always take a card from people handing them out in the street, just to be friendly? Do you pick up interesting cards in idle ...

Sir Christopher Wren’s success at St Paul’s Cathedral is to have envisaged architecture of such absolute assurance that it is impossible to imagine it could ever have been any different than it is ...

It is my pleasure to publish this extract from Gillian Tindall’s novel Journal of a Man Unknown which describes a nocturnal vision that is granted to the protagonist in Mile End ...

Built in the twenties and opened in 1930, the West India Docks Impounding Station is a shining marvel of engineering that is maintained in constant good working order today by the Canal & River Trust.

Remembering Stanley Rondeau who died on 13th January aged ninety-two. Stanley Rondeau’s great-great-great-great-great-great-grandfather Jean Rondeau was a Huguenot silk weaver w ...

But if you were interested in local history, then Stanley was one of the most remarkable people you could hope to meet, because his great-great-great-great-great-great-grandfather Jean Rondeau was a ...