It is my delight to present John Dempsey’s street portraits from the eighteen-twenties held in the collection of the Tasmanian Museum & Art Gallery. Originally attributed to George Scharf, they were ...

To celebrate the arrival of spring, this weekend all our books are on sale at HALF PRICE until Sunday at midnight and we are including a free copy of THE MAP OF THE GENTLE AUTHOR’S TOUR OF ...

When I first saw Street Scene by Barnett Freedman (Reproduced courtesy of the Tate Gallery) , I thought I half-recognised the location as either Whitechapel or Bethnal Green and I delighted in the ...

John Olney told me it all began with two brothers, Jeremiah & Dennis O’Donovan, who came to Liverpool from Dublin in the eighteen thirties at the time of the potato famine in Ireland. Dennis took a ...

In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London ...

What are you to do on Mothering Sunday if you have no mother? My mother died in 2005 and each year I confront this troubling question when the annual celebration comes around.

The work of Geoffrey Fletcher (1923–2004) is an inspiration to me, and today I am publishing his drawings of London’s street people in the nineteen sixties from Geoffrey Fletcher’s Pavement Pounders ...

Dan Jones’ painting of Malcolm Johnson at Botolph’s, Aldgate 1982 With his gentle blue eyes and white locks, Reverend Dr Malcolm Johnson was one of the most even-tempered radicals that you could meet, ...

CLICK HERE TO BOOK When I discovered Antony Cairns ‘ series of pub portraits, I realised I had found a kindred spirit. His soulful photographs manage to record the death and evoke the life of these ...

CLICK HERE TO BOOK Enigmatic Photographer Jeffrey Johnson deposited a stack of his appealing pictures from the seventies and eighties with Archivist Stefan Dickers at the Bishopsgate Institute , ...

Remembering Reverend Malcom Johnson who died in February Bobbie Beecroft cuts Mr Sheridan’s hair, 1976 When photographer David Hoffman was squatting in Fieldgate Mansions in Whitechapel in the ...