At the end of the last century, eighteen wooden plates and bowls were recovered from a silted-up well in Spitalfields. One of the largest discoveries of medieval wooden vessels ever made in this ...

Photographer Chris Kelly returned to Cable St Community Gardens to take these vibrant portraits of the gardeners in 2012. Previously, Chris made a set of portraits in black and white which became an ...

It gives me great pleasure to announce that – thanks to contributions by 207 readers of Spitalfields Life – we reached the total of our crowdfund last night at midnight and Women at Work, Sarah ...

This was the legendary pleater Kyriacos Hadjikyriacou, universally known as Kyri. He removed a piece of silk from between a pair of cardboard patterns that were folded into an intricate design which ...

In 2012, Sarah Ainslie and I set out to explore the culture of chicken shops, entirely unaware that this would become the most controversial post ever with responses polarised between those who love ...

Since the end of last week, our crowdfund to publish Sarah Ainslie’s WOMEN AT WORK, East End Portraits 1992-2025 has nearly doubled, surging from £8,054 to more than £15,500 thanks to the additional ...

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

Yet Harry has another string to his bow, since he matches his superlative flair in baking with an equal talent in music and songwriting – as Contributing Photographer Sarah Ainslie and I discovered ...

After three weeks of crowdfunding – thanks to the generosity of 87 supporters – we have raised £11,304, which is close to half of our target of £25,000 to publish the book of Sarah Ainslie’s ...