Pollenarium was commissioned by Creative Barking and Dagenham alongside Barking Riverside Limited, with co-commissioning ...

Julia Pascal is a British playwright, director and scholar. Growing up in Blackpool and Manchester, she trained as an actor ...

Henry Say's memoir of a 1950s Shadwell childhood captures a docker's street in loving detail — just as containerisation was ...

But the music really communicated, that was the point.” Rayner and Cartwright founded Blow The Fuse in 1989 The Guest Stars ...

She marched at the first Aldermaston in 1958 and was still going 50 years later, complaining only that the crowd walked too slowly. An extract from Great Women of London on Hetty Bower — born in ...

On 22 September 1999, Scottish painter and decorator Harry Stanley stopped off for a lemonade on his way home at his local Hackney pub, The Alexandria (now The Lauriston). He put a plastic bag on the ...

“Homerton Hospital keeps Hackney alive and well, many were even born there. Let’s show it some love,” says STIK. The words have the plainness of everything the artist makes — no flourish, no irony, ...

She marched at the first Aldermaston in 1958 and was still going 50 years later, complaining only that the crowd walked too slowly. An extract from Great Women of London on Hetty Bower — born in ...

For one week in July, two of Dalston's most-loved rooms are given over to Paul McCarthy. The American artist — widely held to be among the most influential of his generation — arrives for a four-night ...

"A civic building, built to last." That is how Sheila O'Donnell describes the thing she and John Tuomey have made in Stratford, and it is about as much as either architect will say for themselves. The ...

She marched at the first Aldermaston in 1958 and was still going 50 years later, complaining only that the crowd walked too slowly. An extract from Great Women of London on Hetty Bower — born in ...