Lockdown living: Sticky Toffee Muffins
Local Cordon-bleu trained pastry chef Tamsin Robinson shares her recipe of sticky toffee muffins.
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The Suffragette People’s Army of Victoria Park
As the Suffragettes began to use more radical tactics on their quest to change democracy – the West End was sacked in late 1912 – they started to encounter police repression, who saw them as a ‘threat to national security’.
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Local appeals to ensure enough laptops for local school children
Facing some of the greatest digital poverty in the country, our local schools, politicians and the council have taken action
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Lockdown living: Apple, pear and miso galette recipe
As part of our ongoing series of winter lockdown recipes, local Cordon-bleu trained pastry Tamsin Robinson has created a recipe
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Captain Dave: All aboard the Floating Church!
Moored up in Hackney Wick is the Floating Church. This barge-come-chapel is run by Reverend Dave Pilkington, a man who
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George Lansbury Labour MP for Bow and Bromley: ‘a great, servant to the people’
George Lansbury, former MP of Bow and Bromley, is remembered by all for his immense devotion to the people of the East End. Unlike many politicians who were born into the life of education and power, George Lansbury was truly a man of the people. Hardships from his early years shaped him to be a compassionate and fervent ally to women and the working class of the East End.
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Sporting Bengal: the FC tackling racism in football
Sporting Bengal United F.C play their football in Mile End Stadium, after being established in 1996 to ‘challenge the underrepresentation of Asians in football’. Team captain Rokib Choudhury and their manager Imrul Gazi speak out about what needs to be done to tackle racism in the game.
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The best takeaway pancakes to enjoy this lockdown
We won’t be able to eat inside our favourite cafes this pancake day, yet that doesn’t mean we won’t still
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Victoria Park: the wintery wonderland on our doorstep
These photos of Victoria Park covered in snow will help to banish any blues you might have this winter. Picturesque all year round, this green space on our doorstep has been transformed into an ethereal world dusted with snowflakes. This really is ‘the best park in the world’.
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Valentine’s Day: romantic food and drink treats during lockdown
This Sunday is Valentine’s Day – and the fact that love still flourishes during lockdown is something to celebrate more
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Surprising vistas of a wintery dawn walk along the Regent’s Canal
These photos of Regent’s Canal taken recently on a dark dawn walk capture a moment in time in the history
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The tragic history of Saint Clements hospital
Saint Clements Hospital, a place known for treating adolescent heroin addicts, has had an unforgettable impact on the history of the East End. The building withstood fires and bomb damage from World War Two, and its walls contain a very chequered past.
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