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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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.
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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‘One Day in Wonderland’: an outdoor play that’s turned a local cafe into a theatre
For over a year, live entertainment has been largely off the menu; but Lights of London are bringing theatre back
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Bethnal Green churches celebrate Easter week both online and in-person
As lockdown eases, we look at which churches in Bethnal Green are opening up for Easter either in person or
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Behind the red doors of Bethnal Green Fire Station
They say a busy station is a happy station, and if they’re right Bethnal Green Fire Station on Roman Road
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Ringside: Blood and solidarity at York Hall boxing [PHOTOS]
The main event is ringside at York Hall boxing. You’d do well to find a more varied cross section of
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