Hitchcock's East End
The director’s links with East London are well known but until recently little celebrated
Read MoreStephen Willats – conceptual art that is socially and politically relevant
Archive display shows how pioneering conceptual artist Stephen Willats engaged socially and politically with the world around him
Read MoreRare photographs show East End life 100 years ago
Photographs by the enigmatic C.H. Mathews are on display for the first time at Eleven Spitalfields Gallery
Read MorePainting the past in Another Country exhibition
Artists explore themes of memory, travel and dislocation in exhibition at new Bow Arts-run gallery
Read MoreKrista Papista – the sound of 'sordid pop'
Dark lyrics and searing beats are just two features of Dalston-based artist Krista Papista’s ecclectic sound
Read MorePie-oneers of fast food
Childhood memories of pie mash shops led George Steptoe to make a documentary about them
Read MoreProgressive preservation
Dean Smith looks at how London’s identity, diversity and contemporary architecture is affected through the preservation of existing buildings, conservation areas and spatial policies
Read MoreTitbits – Four Communications, Hackney Today and parties’ row over Cazenove
Find out who’s namechecked in our new diary column
Read MoreHackney author looks at the gardens of the British working class
Are we a nation of gardeners? asks Margaret Willes in her new book
Read MorePhilip Pullman’s Grimm Tales to be staged at Shoreditch Town Hall
‘A story is better than a commandment’ author of His Dark Materials tells the Hackney Citizen
Read MoreJane Eyre to show us ‘how to be right in love’ at Rosemary Branch theatre
Stage adaptation of nineteenth century novel returns for a second run at Off West End award-winning theatre
Read MoreArtists from London and Los Angeles team up for Head Grammar exhibition
Transition Gallery to hold mixed media group exhibition
Read MoreBerlin Wall painter Thierry Noir to exhibit in Shoreditch gallery
The Howard Griffin Gallery is to hold the first ever Thierry Noir retrospective in April
Read MoreHackney Council approves plan to demolish Dalston’s historic Georgian terrace
Total demolition of heritage buildings to go ahead after close-run vote at Town Hall
Read MoreLeader – Hackney Council’s gesture politics over betting shops
Town Hall asks Pickles for more power to restrict where bookies can open, but Labour itself opened the floodgates
Read MoreCar wars as Hackney Council seeks to put brakes on parking at Kingsland Shopping Centre site
Town Hall at odds with developer amid concern over future of Dalston’s Eastern Curve Garden
Read MoreKingsland Shopping Centre plans: clash with developers over car culture
Parking concerns fuel split amid debate over Eastern Curve Garden’s future
Read MoreProject to celebrate retired Caribbean nurses’ experiences will host first gathering this month
Scheme by Black Arts Women will result in exhibition at Hackney Museum later this year
Read MoreGang culture shot down as Our Lady’s Convent School students get organised to combat crime
Survey carried out by pupils finds safety is top of public’s concerns
Read MorePupils at Hackney’s Nightingale Primary School get cracking with code ahead of curriculum changes
Coding can be like poetry, says teenage prodigy as students strive to emulate Zuckerberg and Jobs
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