Historic site including Victorian warehouses and one time residence of Christopher Marlowe are under threat of redevelopment
When the Balfron Tower’s socially-housed tenants were asked to leave, many thought it was temporary. Now the empty building is to be sold privately
There’s a series of events going on all over East London to mark Women’s History Month
Bookshop, cultural centre and community publisher Centerprise will be remembered in a lottery-funded oral history project
Built on the site of a defunct brewery, Hackney City Farm was founded on the principle that caring for animals and plants brings people together
Behind the red-handed statue of William Gladstone in Bow Churchyard is a story of silencing and resistance
New book commemorates a hundred years since a group of East End women led by Sylvia Pankhurst set up a splinter group of suffragettes
A petition to save the Bethnal Green gasholders has already gained more than 1000 signatures
A programme about education or tear-jerking soap opera? We speak to the stars of Channel 4’s Educating the East End
The Whitechapel Bell Foundry was founded in 1570 and is the UK’s oldest manufacturing company
Why is there such a fascination for ‘grit and squalor’ representations of East London’s history?
Communist newspaper The Morning Star is continuing to take the fight to capitalism from its base in Hackney Wick
