. Starting in 2013, Spitalfields Life Books published 15 books over 6 years until the pandemic shut us down. Now we are ready to begin again and we are inspired by a string of new titles th… Read More

Click here to book for my tour of Spitalfields this Saturday and beyond . Click here to book for my next City of London walk on 4th June . Today we are celebrating artist Anthony Eyton who… Read More

All our books are on sale at half price until New Year and we are including a free copy of THE MAP OF THE GENTLE AUTHOR’S TOUR OF SPITALFIELDS with every order. . CLICK HERE TO VISIT T… Read More

Tickets are available for my walking tour next week Click here to book your ticket for THE GENTLE AUTHOR’S TOUR OF SPITALFIELDS . St Botolph’s Without Aldgate, 1963 The facts of… Read More

In 2022, we plan to commence publishing books again and we already have several exciting new titles in the pipeline. You can help us on our way by supporting our JANUARY BOOK SALE. We only h… Read More

If you are seeking an excuse for a day trip to Southend, I can think of no better reason than to visit the current exhibition of paintings by East London Group Artists Harold & Walter St… Read More

Spring begins in the northern hemisphere this week. In celebration, we are having a SPRING SALE with all titles in the Spitalfields Life Bookshop at half price. Enter ‘SPRING’ at… Read More

Mare St, 1937 “I set to work at once on the flat roof of a furniture shop facing the corner of Dalston Lane (to the right of the picture) where my father and his father before him had… Read More

Since the publication of my survey of EAST END VERNACULAR, Artists Who Painted London’s East End Streets in the 20th Century, photographer Stuart Freedman has been making portrait… Read More

I only learnt the sad news this week that Milly Rich died last year on 6th October at the grand age of one hundred. As her daughter Shula said to me, ‘her heart could not keep up with… Read More

I have illustrated lectures on the subject of  EAST END VERNACULAR, Artists who painted London’s East End streets in the 20th century coming up in Whitechapel on Thursday 17th Nov… Read More

Maurice Sills in the library at St Paul’s where he wrote the catalogue If you were to read the staff list at St Paul’s Cathedral, where Maurice Sills is described simply as &lsq… Read More