So Luke Clennell’s splendid DANCE OF DEATH engravings inspired by Hans Holbein suit my mordant sensibility at this season.

Within months of Georgiana’s death, the watch fell into the hands of the newspaper editor W.T. Stead who gave it to Etta ...

More painterly and romantic than Brandt, Burdekin’s nightscapes propose an irresistibly soulful vision of the mythic city ...

This week, I was so saddened to confront the long-closed-up premises of G. Kelly at 444 Bethnal Green Rd – which shut in 2018 ...

Dripping off the roofs and splashing onto the pavements, filling the gutters and coursing down the pipes, it overflows the ...

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

If you are looking for TV repair in the East End, I recommend you visit Master Tech in Heneage St off Brick Lane – where, not ...

Favourite illustrator Alice Pattullo has just completed two projects on the subjects of fire and ice in the history of the ...

I am proud to publish these excerpts from GRAVE STORIES by a graduate of my writing course. The author, known as ‘Gravedigger ...

Illustrator Joan Beales holds a very special place in my heart. Her first picture book Pip and the Six Cooks, published in ...

In my imagination, Joan Lauder (1924-2011) was a mysterious feline spirit in human form who prowled the alleys and back streets, a self-appointed guardian of the stray cats and a lonely sentinel ...

I decided to take advantage of the October sunshine by enjoying an excursion to Chiswick House. I have to confess that it is ...