Heritage and history | Bethnal Green LDN

Mildmay Mission Hospital: The history of a former cottage hospital delivering compassionate care one crisis at a time

Set up as a Christian mission in 1866, Mildmay Hospital has specialised in helping those facing the greatest stigmas in

Just as the bleak streets of New York inspired the birth of street photography in the early twentieth century, the

In July 1938 residents of Bethnal Green’s Quinn Square initiated a rent strike led by women to protest against high

Built by philanthropist Angela Burdett-Coutts, Columbia Market Hall once stood where Columbia Road Flower Market now exists, and was an

Paul’s book about his grandfather tells the working class and Huguenot history of Bethnal Green – of refugee silk-weavers, Jack

Channelling the seditious energy of printers from the 1600s, Calverts printing cooperative has been putting the activism into Bethnal Green

From a Church, to a Synagogue and most recently a Mosque, the Brick Lane Jamme Masjid and its sundial have

It is nothing short of miraculous that Mulberry trees have survived in the UK given they don’t self-seed and are

A new photography exhibition showing at Oxford House and in Bethnal Green Road shopfronts documents the area’s youth culture in

Bethnal Green is home to both iconic boxing venues and fighters. But why does this part of the East End

Raised from the rubble of one of London’s most notorious slums, the Victorian red-brick mansions wouldn’t look amiss on Inigo,

For over a year, live entertainment has been largely off the menu; but Lights of London are bringing theatre back