Shining a light on the everyday issues that matter to Londoners
At some point or other, we’ve all wished we had a time machine that could transport us back to past ages. History both fascinates and intrigues us, and yet we are unable to ever know or experience it for ourselves.
For Dennis Severs, the late owner and curator of the Dennis Severs Museum, the past was more than a fascination; it was an obsession – a form of art. And time was his medium.
A timely collection of imagery capturing the spirit of East London, collated from the archives of Getty Images, is currently exhibiting at the Getty Images Gallery at Westfield Stratford City from now until April 1st 2012.
London Living attended the opening night last week on a snowy evening in Stratford, which couldn’t have created a more captivating backdrop to the event. There was a brass band playing in the band stand by the red carpet with a captive audience, …
Don’t forget to enter our competition. Our dinner at the Stew House is tomorrow night, and you have until the end of today to enter…
In the meantime, last week we came across a great little article focusing on one of the East End most historical areas, Whitechapel.
The Londoneer’s whimsically-titled piece ‘Wandering in Whitechapel‘ looks at the current cultural climate in and around this part of Tower Hamlets.
From Whitechapel Gallery to the Whitechapel Bell Foundry via the East London Mosque, the area clearly has a lot on …
Charles Dickens officially celebrates his 200th birthday on the 7th February next year and the party planning is already in full swing.
The nation, and more specifically London, is bracing itself for Dickensian mania as we enter 2012.
From January ‘the BFI is staging a three-month retrospective of Dickens on film and TV’ and we will also witness the Royal Mint introducing a personal tribute to one of Britain’s most successful literary figures of the modern ages with a new £2 coin that will feature his portrait and a …
Tech City is exactly what it sounds like.
Dubbed ‘the new Silicon Valley’, this hub of forward-thinking, entrepreneurial business heads has been quietly going from strength to strength in London’s East End.
Sandwiched between Farringdon and Stratford, this cluster of expanding businesses has evolved from the Silicon Roundabout – the epicentre, or beating heart, of a new British drive to bring a hi-tech business nucleus to London.
”So much more than simply popular and trendy ‘Silicon Roundabout’ is fast becoming ‘the major hub’ for media agencies …
