Rewriting the dating rulebook: tales of non-monogamy from the East End
From polyamorous choirs and non-monogamy picnics to sex-positive kink parties, east London is a community hub for those redefining intimacy
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Life and living
Your guide to the communities, cultures, creative endeavours and personal stories of the people who live in the neighbourhoods in Bethnal Green.
‘Down the Caff’: Bethnal Green Road’s famous E Pellicci café launches new podcast
If E. Pellicci’s walls could talk, they would tell some fascinating tales about the celebrities who have dined there –
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Instagram suspends The Vagina Museum’s content, is it because of pubic hair?
In the colourful landscape of social media, where cat videos and foodie photos make for hours of endless scrolling, there
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Idia’s Community Kitchen is a lifeline for the homeless in Haggerston
Idia’s Kitchen in Fellows Court Community Centre is providing a vital lifeline for the homeless and hungry in Haggerston, writes
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Recipes of Life: a diasporic cookbook celebrating the spiritual sustenance of community
In Recipes of Life: Stories of Migration and Brotherhood, a group of migrant men weave testimonies of displacement and belonging
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Design Duo Doshi Levien From Bethnal Green Awarded with New Year Honours List
Announced this week, Nipa Doshi and Jonathan Levien – the design duo behind the studio Doshi Levien – are recipients
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Nancy Kray: surviving the fallout of Britain’s most notorious mobsters
After 21 years silenced, Nancy Kray – the niece of Bethnal Green gangster twins – shares what it means to
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Painter Eleanor Crow: Bethnal Green’s accidental archivist
Eleanor Crow’s illustrated world of the East End prove that paintings can develop lives of their own, instigating surprising and
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How Calverts cooperative has helped form Bethnal Green’s riotous and artistic identity
Channelling the seditious energy of printers from the 1600s, Calverts printing cooperative has been putting the activism into Bethnal Green
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Three generations of E Pellicci: what it takes to run a world famous cafe
We talk to Bethnal Green’s most iconic sibling duo since the Kray twins, Anna and Nev – the third generation
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A day in the life of fresh fish fishmonger, Ramadan
Fresh fish is a high street staple on Bethnal Green Road. We speak to the passionate fishmonger Ramadan about what
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Youth of Yesterday at Oxford House and Bethnal Green shopfronts
A new photography exhibition showing at Oxford House and in Bethnal Green Road shopfronts documents the area’s youth culture in
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