When he was a young photographer, David Hoffman came to live in a squat in Fieldgate Mansions in Whitechapel and it changed his life. Over the following years, he documented homelessness, racism and ...

For good reason John Thomas Smith acquired the nickname ‘Antiquity Smith’ – while working as Keeper of Drawings at the British Museum, between 1790 & 1800, he produced a large series of etchings ...

You are all invited to the opening of Nicholas Boden’s STOKE NEWINGTON PAINTINGS at Everyday Sunshine Gallery, 49 Barbauld Rd, Stoke Newington, N16 0RT, tonight, Thursday 12th September from 6:30pm ...

Our crowdfund closed yesterday and, thanks to the generous contributions of 180 readers of Spitalfields Life, we raised £10,952 in twenty-eight days. Consequently, I am overjoyed to be able to confirm ...

Losing his hair in his thirties, Cyril Mann had the look of a man older than his years. Through the Depression he had been unemployed and close to starvation, yet thanks to a trust fund set up by ...

Peanuts, Tower Hill – “We’ve only been doin’ this for a few months, me peanut pram and I. I only comes twice a week, Saturdays and Sundays. Sundays is best. It’s a hot day. Hope it will stay. I’m ...

It is my delight to publish this profile of Derrick Porter whose new book of verse The Art of Timing is published next Monday 9th September at a joint launch event with Jude Rosen’s new collection ...

recover, without need of an archeologist.