. Next ticket availability Saturday 2nd September . . Fourteen years ago this week I began publishing daily in these pages with the ambition of reaching at least ten thousand posts, which… Read More

JOIN ME FOR FOR A WALK THROUGH SPITALFIELDS THIS GOOD FRIDAY, EASTER SATURDAY OR EASTER MONDAY  . CLICK HERE TO BOOK FOR SPRING & SUMMER TOURS . The Bethnal Green Mulberry, Septemb… Read More

While the Gentle Author takes a holiday, we are celebrating the joys of the season with a HARVEST SALE, selling all our books at half price so you can treat yourself and your friends and fam… Read More

Nurses dancing around the Bethnal Green Mulberry After campaigning to Save the Bethnal Green Mulberry since 2017, I am overjoyed to report yesterday’s decision of the High Court to re… Read More

. I am overjoyed to announce that our campaign – under the patronage of Dame Judi Dench – has succeeded in obtaining a Judicial Review at the High Court for Tower Hamlets Counci… Read More

Tickets are available for my walking tour now Click here to book for THE GENTLE AUTHOR’S TOUR OF SPITALFIELDS . This year, it has been a pleasure to welcome so many readers to Spital… Read More

Yesterday I fell out of a Mulberry tree in Victoria Park while harvesting Mulberries for our campaign to Save the Bethnal Green Mulberry and broke my arm. One moment I was reaching from the… 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 . The scourging There is a fine house in Fournier St wi… Read More

Next week, Circle Housing & Crest Nicholson who are redeveloping the site of the former London Chest Hospital next to Victoria Park, present a public exhibition of their revised scheme… Read More

. . Click to look inside Shakespeare’s Mulberry as cultivated by David Garrick . Many readers will remember the unhappy day in September 2018 when Tower Hamlets Council voted to appro… Read More

Photograph by Sarah Ainslie . We are seeking to overturn Tower Hamlets’ Council’s appalling decision to approve the Truman Brewery’s application to build a shopping mall w… Read More

Below you can read an extract from the memoirs of Albert Turpin (1900-64), Artist, Anti-Fascist, Window Cleaner, & Mayor of Bethnal Green, written between 1945 and 1947 and published now… Read More

In celebration of the news that the Bethnal Green Mulberry is saved, here is a gallery of some of my favourite London Mulberries At the Tower of London At Charlton House At Middle Temple… Read More

In three days, we have surpassed our initial target of £10,000, raising £11,630 to fund the Judicial Review of the Bethnal Green Mulberry Tree case at the High Court. Thanky… Read More

IN CELEBRATION OF ELEVEN YEARS OF SPITALFIELDS LIFE, WE ARE OFFERING READERS 50% DISCOUNT ON ALL TITLES IN OUR ONLINE BOOKSHOP UNTIL MIDNIGHT ON 31st AUGUST. ENTER DISCOUNT CODE ‘BIRTH… Read More

The restoration of the Marquis of Lansdowne nears completion The Marquis of Lansdowne in the thirties Five years ago, the readers of Spitalfields Life led a successful campaign to save the… Read More

. ‘How can I ever describe the exuberant richness and multiplicity of culture in this place? This is both my task and my delight.’ . Ten years ago this week I promised to publis… Read More

I am delighted to announce that after my report on the threat of demolition to 3 Club Row – a journeyman weavers’ house dating from 1764/6 – Historic England visited the pr… Read More

Click on this image to enlarge Inspired by this plate of engravings of East End churches in Chamberlain’s History of London, 1770, that I found in the Bishopsgate Institute, I was ins… Read More

In the effort to cover the best of London, we often limit ourselves to the attractions in Central London without realizing that there are some true treasures in the Greater  London area… Read More

The scourging There is a fine house in Fournier St with an old fireplace lined with manganese Delft tiles of an attractive mulberry hue illustrating lurid Biblical scenes. Installed when th… Read More