From Mile End to Masterchef: a pastry chef’s fight for equality
Terri Mercieca on nana’s home cooking, comfort eating, and making the culinary world a better place for the LGBT+ community.
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Cultural heritage
Discover arts, culture and heritage
In our Cultural Heritage section we look at what makes our neighbourhood unique. We explore the arts, culture and heritage that have formed our identity, including Bow grime music, the East London Suffragettes and the Cockney heritage.
Winner of £15,000 East London Art Prize announced at Bow Arts’ shortlist exhibition
Out of more than 650 submissions, Kat Anderson’s film installation drawing on the racism of public health and police institutions
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Modern Cockneys: the new generation of famous Cockney people true to the East End’s sparky spirit
Some say that Cockneys are a dying breed but a new generation of modern Cockneys is showing that the spirit
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Christine Joyce Lewis: Bow Headteacher awarded MBE
Christine Joyce Lewis, the former headteacher of Children’s House Nursery School in Bow, has been awarded an MBE for services
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Tower Hamlets residents celebrated in the 2023 New Year’s Honours list
Tackling hunger in Tower Hamlets, delivering humanitarian assistance in Ukraine and furthering early years special education are just some of
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Artist Ali Smith: Printing East London’s urban landscape
Canal boats, cranes and graffiti: Everyday East End scenes through a local printmaker’s eyes. Most people walking down Mile End
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Blitzed and still standing: The beauty and endurance of the East End epitomised by Bow Church
Bow Church has been blitzed, its tower hit by storms and its bells destroyed, so how does it still stand
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Reverend Alan Green leaves St. John on Bethnal Green church after 24 years
Reverend Green’s Christmas Day sermon will be the last he gives to the congregation he has served for nearly a
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Companionship on camera: the beauty of everyday interactions in the East End [photoessay]
Moments of intimacy between East Enders are captured in these warm everyday interactions. Our everyday lives are populated by intimate
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Randolfi’s: Time stands still at Roman Road’s longest serving café
Serving Roman Road’s market stall holders, shoppers, and residents for 110 years with tea, cake, and its famed thick deli-cut
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Why Hammers’ Emerson Palmieri is putting his name to Cockney pie n’ mash
What goes together better than West Ham & Pie and Mash? Footballer Emerson Palmieri visits G Kelly on the Roman
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Aberfeldy Boxing Club in final three for prestigious London sports award
The award celebrates unsung heroes who are bringing sport to under-represented groups and improving lives through physical activity. East End’s
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