Remembering Stan Jones: an East End jubilee devotee
Six months after his passing, Stan Jones’ family and friends remember him by decorating his East End home on Lichfield
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Cockney
Is the Essex accent ‘reimagined Cockney’?
With similarities between the Cockney dialect and Essex accent, we set out to uncover, is Essex really Cockney? London’s famous
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What Cockney rhyming slang for money endures in the East End?
We put it to the people of East London to find out whether Cockney rhyming slang for money can survive
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Why people are coming to Roman Road for the Big Beauty look
Big hair, strong brows, deep tans, long talons; more is more when it comes to beauty on Roman Road. Less
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What are you called if you’re from Bow?
Putting it to the residents once and for all: how do the people of Bow define themselves? Everyone knows that
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The history of back slang: the covert language of the East End
Think Cockney rhyming slang was the only covert language of the Victorian-era East End? Introducing back slang, rhyming slang’s lesser-known,
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Meet Chris Ross, the East End poet keeping Cockney culture young
We talk to Chris Ross, the Cockney poet taking social media by storm with his poems about everyday life in
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A cockney holiday: East Ender’s favourite seaside haunts
With foreign travel likely off the cards this year, we rediscover the seaside holiday destinations that East Enders have long
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Cockney rhyming slang history: the roots, the rhymes and the reasons
Ever fallen down the ‘apples and pears’? Have you had your ‘barnet’ chopped recently? Called a mate on the old
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The real history of ‘Knees up Mother Brown’
The exact origin of ‘Knees up Mother Brown’ is unknown, but by the 1800s it had become a popular song in East End pubs and bars.
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The real history of the Pearly Kings and Queens
The Pearly Kings and Queens are a famous symbol of cockney culture and the second oldest charity in London, but what’s the real story behind the Pearl monarchy? How are they still spreading the original Pearly message? And how much do the suits really weigh?
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Book Review: ‘Krays: The Final Word’ by James Morton
‘This boy has been beaten by beasts’ are the first words in Krays: the Final Word, spoken by a Thames Court magistrate investigating the assault on a boy called Roy Harvey who was allegedly beaten with chains by the Kray Twins and their friend Patrick Aucott in Mare Street, Hackney.
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