Who is The Gentle Author? A peek behind the curtain at Spitalfields’ famous anonymous blogger
The East End’s enigmatic Wizard of Oz has been documenting the neighbourhood since 2009, but who is the writer behind
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Author: Agatha Scaggiante
The Scarlett Letters radical bookshop to close following Instagram blowout and staff balloting for strikes
The Scarlett Letters was intended as a radically inclusive space, but after less than a year open, a bitter dispute
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Is Cambridge Heath Road shaping up to be the new Hackney?
Tower Hamlets is one of the most rapidly gentrifying boroughs, and Cambridge Heath Road’s bubbling new cultural scene feels like
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An anti-hero of gay liberation: Ronnie Kray’s violent life outside the closet
‘Who’s gonna call Ronnie Kray a poof? People did, and they were killed’: Bad Gays historian Huw Lemmey tells all
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Friends of Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club launch crowd funder for a planning bid
The community has launched a £12k crowdfunding campaign to secure ownership or a lease after stalled attempts to sell the
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Saxophonist Lora Logic made a name with punk band X-Ray Spex, then vanished from music for 40 years—now, she’s back.
Punk saxophone legend Lora Logic has returned with her first album in over four decades, hitching a UFO ride to
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Reviving the cold case of the 2009 Bethnal Green UFO spotting
When UFOs were spotted hovering over an East End bookie in the early days of Google Street View, they raised
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135 Bar & Lounge, formerly the Carpenter’s Arms, to re-open as a speakeasy on Cambridge Heath Road
Like the Carpenter’s Arms before it, the newly refurbished bar will hide a different world behind closed doors. Dressing up
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The Scarlett Letters opens red-hot on Cambridge Heath Road
Censorers and pearl-clutchers beware – Scarlett Letters is bringing radical voices to the high street and a determination to survive
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Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club starts events again amidst ownership disputes
With a new campaign gathering speed to save one of Bethnal Green’s most original venues, the club’s fate is not
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The final battle: Pro LTN campaigners SOSS take Tower Hamlets Council to High Court
After years of clashes and controversy, Save our Safer Streets is confident in a win after their High Court case
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How the East End has inspired the greats of British street photographers
Just as the bleak streets of New York inspired the birth of street photography in the early twentieth century, the
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