Contributing Photographer Phil Maxwell, whose book BRICK LANE we published in 2014, moved back from Whitechapel to his home town of Liverpool a few years ago and now has begun publishing his shrewd ...

City of London resident Grace Payne died on 16th December aged 101. As a tribute, I am republishing novelist Sarah Winman‘s interview with Grace.

I came upon these handsome Players Cigarette Cards from the Celebrated Gateways series published in 1907. As we contemplate the going-out of the old year and the coming-in of the new, they give me the ...

Yet there was never any diminution, Schrodinger was a bright spirit who always bounded at full strength. Maybe he slept more over the past year and there was a day recently when he slept from ...

It has become a tradition to publish this story at Christmas each year.

Vegetarians look away now, but carnivorous readers will be delighting to learn that the traditional Smithfield Christmas Eve meat auction takes place again this year, hosted by G Lawrence & Co on ...

This extract is from ‘Aunt Louisa’s Keepsake’ published by Frederick Warne which was given to me by Libby Hall. The copy is inscribed ‘Christmas 1896’ inside the front cover. A keen and wintry blast.

Although I have many that are more elaborate, I especially admire this golden one for its simplicity of form and I like to think its ridged profile derives from the nineteen thirties when my mother ...

Leadenhall Market at 11:50pm on Christmas Eve. At the Bank at Midnight. In Southwark Cathedral, 1:00am Christmas Morning. Leaving Southwark Cathedral. The London Stone in Cannon St.

Simply add discount code ‘FIFTY’ at checkout CLICK HERE TO VISIT THE SHOP Click to enlarge this photograph To dispel my disappointment that I cannot rent that Room to Let in Old Aldgate, I find myself ...