Posts Tagged ‘Sarah Birch’
Own De Beauvoir! book review – ‘an oblique take on the construction of a neighbourhood’
This new ‘literary excavation’ by Jonathan Hoskins chronicles time in a fictionalised, yet still very real, De Beauvoir Town
Read MoreA Walk in the Park: The Life and Times of a People’s Institution – book review
Historian Travis Elborough charts the fascinating history of parks, those little pockets of nature most of us take for granted
Read MoreA Walk in the Park: The Life and Times of a People’s Institution – book review
Historian Travis Elborough charts the fascinating history of parks, those little pockets of nature most of us take for granted
Read MoreA Traveller’s Year: 365 Days of Travel Writing in Diaries, Journals and Letters – review
Samuel Pepys, Herman Melville and Christopher Columbus among the authors of a fascinating compendium of travel writing, co-compiled by Travis Elborough
Read MoreA Traveller's Year: 365 Days of Travel Writing in Diaries, Journals and Letters – review
Samuel Pepys, Herman Melville and Christopher Columbus among the authors of a fascinating compendium of travel writing, co-compiled by Travis Elborough
Read MoreEast London collective Assemble become first ‘non-artists’ to win the Turner Prize
Stratford-based group collects prestigious award for its project that blurs the boundary between art and architecture
Read MoreEast London collective Assemble become first 'non-artists' to win the Turner Prize
Stratford-based group collects prestigious award for its project that blurs the boundary between art and architecture
Read MoreForecast: how East Londoners plan to vote on 7 May
Survey insights into how East London will vote and why in the upcoming General Election
Read MoreFacelifts meet resistance as developers begin ‘intensification’ of Finsbury Park
Developments threaten to turn the Victorian rail hub into a clutch of high-rise towers
Read MoreStage review: Henry IV Part 1 and 2 at the Barbican
The Royal Shakespeare Company delivers Henry IV Parts I and II in all its traditional glory
Read MoreHackney photographer Stephen Gill publishes two new books
Two very different topics – weddings and pigeons – are the subjects of Stephen Gill’s most recent photo books
Read MorePhotographer Stephen Gill’s Christmas appeal for Typhoon Haiyan
Limited edition of Stephen Gill print made using energy drinks is released to raise funds for Red Cross Philippines relief
Read MoreStephen Gill’s new collection draws on obsession with Hackney
Not in Service brings together past studies of the borough for the first time
Read MoreBarbican brings Leandro Erlich’s Dalston House to heart of Hackney
Surreal installation artwork inspired by Alfred Hitchcock, David Lynch, Luis Buñuel and Roman Polanski
Read MoreBlighty Coffee – review
Finsbury Park coffee shop sets tone for things to come with wholesome breakfasts and plans to branch out into culture
Read MoreShooting in N16 – photographer Andrew Dumbleton’s lens-eye view of Stoke Newington
Stokey caught on camera in snapper’s sellout volume
Read MoreTaking on the Empire – review
Taking on the Empire tells the story of how an old bingo hall was transformed into what is now the Hackney Empire
Read MoreStranger in a Borrowed Land – review
Lotte Moos was a writer on Hackney’s radical literary scene in the 1970s
Read MoreLondon for Lovers – review
A new guidebook offers ideas for Valentine’s Day outings
Read MoreFood Kitchen ‘Made In Hackney’ brings health and happiness
Not-for-profit cooking workshops are giving wannabe chefs a taste for the local
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