Famous champion boxers from the East End, the beating heart of the boxing world
The most machismo of sports, boxing is woven into the fabric of the East End. The five square miles East
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Culture
Your guide to the people, passions, culture and heritage that have formed Bethnal Green’s identity. Discover the communities and cultures of our neighbourhood, its creative industries, social history and personal stories; the heritage that has created our identity; and what we are passionate about, from philanthropic initiatives to campaigns to save our heritage and the environment.
Market Day by Paul Trevor book review: Capturing the theatre of Brick Lane
Street photographer Paul Trevor captures the scenes and emotions of East End market days near Brick Lane over the years
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‘Whoretographer’ Poppy Pray snaps the golden years of the Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club
Focusing on queer sex workers in the East End, Poppy Pray explores the smoke, sweat, glitter and glamour of the
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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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Inside a night at Sexquisite, a cabaret for and by sex workers
Sexquisite’s joyful, sex worker run cabaret will soon lose its home as the iconic Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club announces
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Celebrating Pride amidst adversity: the resilience of trans and non-binary residents in Tower Hamlets
As Pride Month comes to an end, we find ourselves reflecting not just on the jubilant celebrations, but also on
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A candlelit journey: whispers of the past at Dennis Severs’ House
An American artist brings to life 300 years of French-British Huguenot history in Spitalfields through a theatrical sensory experience. Dennis
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Maureen Paley exhibits Hannah Starkey: Women in Spaces
In six images, Hannah Starkey’s exhibition at Maureen Paley explores women’s representation through large-scale photographs capturing everyday moments. Maureen Paley’s
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‘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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Quinn Square Rent Strike 1938: ‘Parents of the working class movement’
In July 1938 residents of Bethnal Green’s Quinn Square initiated a rent strike led by women to protest against high
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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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