Victoria Park: the people’s park of East London
Victoria Park has been voted the nation’s favourite park in the Green Flag People’s Choice Awards for nine consecutive years.
Victoria Park has been voted the nation’s favourite park in the Green Flag People’s Choice Awards for nine consecutive years.
Hidden in the backstreets of Bow, our area is home to a surprising amount of cemeteries including the oldest Jewish
Bengali author Shabna Begum speaks about her family’s wrongful eviction and how the squatters movement took up vigilante action. Take
Behind an anonymous brick wall in Alderney Road off of Mile End Road lies the oldest Ashkenazi cemetery in the U.K. Founded in 1696 and closed in 1852, the cemetery marks the establishment of the Ashkenazi community, now the largest Jewish ethnic group in the U.K.
How our borough is becoming a model for grassroots environmental change, with organisations and charities proving the cost-of-living crisis and
George Burchett, known as the ‘King of Tattooists’, lived in Bow in the 1900s and tattooed Kings. His legacy as one of the forerunners of the tattoo industry as it is today survives him and his ink will go down in history.
Lutfur Rahman has unveiled an extraordinary budget to pump £40 million into public services in 2023 alone. But is it
Bobby Moore, who captained England to their 1966 World Cup win, went from an East London school playground to Wembley
Charles Booth’s poverty maps have been digitised by the London School of Economics allowing us to compare streets then and
Breaking the mould: how Bow’s modernist church championed active participation of the people and changed the manner of worship in
The People’s Palace was a utopian playground and education centre for working-class East Enders but burnt down in 1931. How
Local photographer Jamie Sinclair captured how residents, businesses and organisations came together during the early days of lockdown in 2020.