An exhibition and book by photographer Phil Maxwell show how one of East London’s most famous streets has evolved across the decades
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Play tackles subject of ‘paupers’ funerals’
The death industry and the consequences of dying alone without dependents is the focus of a new play to be staged this month at the Red Gallery in Shoreditch
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Roy Williams to make return to East London with new play Kingston 14
The playwright is back at Stratford East with a play that explores corruption in Jamaica with Goldie in a starring role
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Hitchcock’s East End
The director’s links with East London are well known but until recently little celebrated
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Stephen Willats – conceptual art that is socially and politically relevant
Archive display shows how pioneering conceptual artist Stephen Willats engaged socially and politically with the world around him
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Rare photographs show East End life 100 years ago
Photographs by the enigmatic C.H. Mathews are on display for the first time at Eleven Spitalfields Gallery
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Painting the past in Another Country exhibition
Artists explore themes of memory, travel and dislocation in exhibition at new Bow Arts-run gallery
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Krista Papista – the sound of ‘sordid pop’
Dark lyrics and searing beats are just two features of Dalston-based artist Krista Papista’s ecclectic sound
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Pie-oneers of fast food
Childhood memories of pie mash shops led George Steptoe to make a documentary about them