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.

Given his outlook, robust energy and enterprise, he will surely prosper but Hoxton will be a duller place without him and Cheap Booze. We wish him well.

There is no such thing as an old family, just those whose histories are recorded." These words set out the stall of a new book, Spitalfields Life, by the self-named Gentle Author (whose actual name is ...

The Gentle Author lives in Spitalfields, east London, and blogs every day about her life there and the people she meets; and this marvellous collection represents a year-and-a-half's worth of blogging ...

If someone created a local blogs award ceremony, Spitalfields Life would sweep the nominations list like the King's Speech. We'd certainly select it for best blog, best interviews and best (relative) ...

The claw of Christ Church protrudes gnomon-like at the centre of this exquisite new map of Spitalfields. Around the Hawksmoor steeple run some of London's most charismatic thoroughfares: Fournier ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Eight hundred years ago, London’s Spitalfields was as it was named: fields belonging to the priory hospital just ...

The “Gentle Author” began a Spitalfields Life blog in 2009. It consists of quietly respectful interviews with local people around the writer's manor, just east of the City. Fine photographs and ...