Rodney Archer gives his rendition of ‘Santa Claus is Coming to Town’… ...

If you fancy a bracing walk as a respite from the forthcoming festivities, tickets are available for THE GENTLE AUTHOR’S TOUR OF SPITALFIELDS on New Year’s Day.

If you fancy a walk as a respite from the forthcoming festivities, tickets are available for THE GENTLE AUTHOR’S TOUR OF SPITALFIELDS on New Year’s Day.

Author of the SYMBOLS & SECRETS blog, and alumnus of my writing course, John Gillman introduces his personal pocket-sized City of London guidebook Courage, Crime & Charity in the City of London. My ...

The proposed new towers above the station, even swathed in a boa of fashionable greensward, are still there.

When David Hoffman was a young photographer, he came to live in a squat in Fieldgate Mansions in Whitechapel and it changed his life. Over the following years, he documented homelessness, racism and ...

Gift Vouchers for The Gentle Author’s tours make ideal gifts for family and friends. Supply the name and postal address of the recipient of the gift voucher when you make your order and The Gentle ...

This year, Robson has made affordable houses at £45 each and every one is fitted with a solar panel. If you leave it on a window sill, it will charge in daylight, light up automatically at dusk and ...

As we brace ourselves for the forthcoming festive season, let us contemplate George Cruikshank‘s illustrations of yuletide in London 1838-53 from his Comic Almanack which remind us how much has ...

Ron’s Gents Hairdressers, Three Colts Lane, Bethnal Green, is still there but has changed from ‘Hairdresser’ to ‘Barber.’ June’s Ladies Hair Stylist. STE was the code for Stepney Green, letters were ...

Today I remember my old cat, Mr Pussy. This is an extract from the biography I wrote of him, THE LIFE & TIMES OF MR PUSSY.