Posts by Hackney Citizen
Good old bikes
In the second of a series on where to buy quality second-hand goods, Sarah Birch looks into bike shops
Read MoreA history of Hackney health: the past is always present
Josh Loeb speaks to the Lisa Rigg about the Hackney Society’s new project
Read MoreAre you a kale fan?
Kate Lauer takes a butcher’s at Stoke Newington Farmers’ Market for a tasty vegetarian treat. Podcast recipe by Marketchef Tom Moggach
Read MoreEconomical truths
Ben Locker talks about the recession from a Hackney perspective
Read MoreSlightseeing: Hackney
Urban glimpses and momentary distractions
Read MoreGoing swimmingly
A dip into Kings Hall and London Fields pools
Read MorePangea – Stokey’s supercontinent
Comedy, cabaret and community: the Pangea Project is the sum of many parts
Read MoreThe transparency of shadows
The book of the Rose is the map of the borough
Read MoreGoing native
This spring, Peter Jones seeks out a natural palette
Read MoreJust my cup of tea
Farida Shaikh goes on a quest for the best
Read MoreSwings and roundabouts? Serious concerns over play
Debates over future of play spaces in the borough
Read MoreIain Sinclair: At large in a ‘fictional’ Hackney
The celebrated ‘psychogeographer’ talks to the Guardian newspaper about the London borough that has been his home and muse for 40 years, and how the Olympic development is changing it
Read MoreIt’s official: Mayor thought author ‘too controversial’ for library
Exclusive by Josh Loeb
Read MoreBrown gold
It’s time to get your bulbs planted in time to flower next spring
Read MoreTo the final whistle
Hackney Women’s Football Club has always been ahead of the game
Read MoreAt home with Iain Sinclair
The author and psychogeographer talks to Peter Jones about Hackney and his forthcoming book
Read MoreNo critics please, this is Hackney
“Publish and be damned!” (Duke of Wellington, c.1825): dissenting voices are vital to democracy
Read MoreFestive puddin’ and pie
Sugar and spice and all things nice – that’s what Christmas puds are made of. Well, these days at least
Read MoreClapton’s community pubs
In the first of a number of tours of Hackney’s public houses, Matt Hanley searches out Clapton’s friendliest watering holes
Read MoreA Hackney Fantazy
Fantazia are a multicultural eight-piece group of minstrels, who describe themselves as 21st century roots music from Algeria, via Hackney
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