‘Many of these paintings were made in kitchens, the heart of any house, café or restaurant. Places that are often a repository of things we have collected, things that have been handed down to us and ...

For years, Viscountess Boudica wrote an autobiography – absurd, bawdy and magical by turns – in daily installments. Entitled There’s More to Life than Heaven & Earth (sadly now discontinued), it was ...

The Leopard is the symbol of the Goldsmiths’ Company. Whenever I walk through the City to St Paul’s, I always marvel at the great blocks of Hay Tor granite which form the plin ...

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

CLICK HERE TO BOOK I am celebrating my friend, the late Clive Murphy, by publishing his snaps Pauline, Animal Lover, 77 Brick Lane, 16 July 1988 When it cames to photography, Clive Murphy – 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 ...

In his Survey of London 1589, John Stow wrote about the discovery of pots of Roman gold coins buried in Spitalfields and it had long been understood that ancient tombs once lined the road approaching ...