When I visited Phillip Lucas in his 1725 house in Spitalfields that he has been renovating for more than a decade, we sat on two threadbare wing chairs, conversing over a sea of objects and piles of ...

Naturally, he was a little disoriented by the changes that time has wrought to Red Lion Fields where he once cultivated herbs and gathered wild plants for his remedies. Disinterested in new ...

Shall we take a tour around the East End in the early eighties in the company of David Johnson, courtesy of his wonderful Kodachrome images?

On the semiquincentennial, as we contemplate the disturbing irony of the signing of the Declaration of Independence in which the American colonies set out to rid themselves of the tyranny of monarchs, ...

Mark Richards explores the controversial work of photographer Edith Tudor-Hart and her secret life as a Soviet agent in London ...

Remembering my old cat Mr Pussy who died in 2017. The sagacious Mr Pussy. There is an exceptional hush upon the East End, with with the heat and the football conspiring to empty t ...

Contributing Photographer Sarah Ainslie & I were delighted to shelter under a tree and share a cuppa with Head Gardener Laura Buckley at the Cranbrook Community Food Garden in Bethnal Green during a ...

Proving that he puts his money where his mouth is, thirteen years ago Mark came along to buy a tray for his wife’s birthday, discovered that the business was going into liquidation and agreed to take ...

I am delighted to announce The Gentle Author’s Tour of Whitechapel commissioned by the Whitechapel Gallery as part of the Gallery’s Backyard Biennial. Join me for a two-hour walking tour of ...

Click here to book for the Gentle Author’s Tours After he photographed the end of the trams in 1952 at the age of twelve, photographer Colin O’Brien became fascinated by recording the ‘last days’ of ...