Spitalfields Life
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Join me for a ramble through 2000 years of culture and history at the heart of old London. www.thegentleauthorstours.com
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We elevate and celebrate the CULTURES OF THE EAST END through publishing GOOD QUALITY BOOKS at affordable prices. Click on the link to see the full selection: spitalfieldslife.bigcartel.com
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Photo of the day, by Tony Bock around 50 years ago, on @thegentleauthor.bsky.social: spitalfieldslife.com/2025/11/26/t...
November 26, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Photo of the day, by Tony Bock around 50 years ago, on @thegentleauthor.bsky.social: spitalfieldslife.com/2025/11/26/t...
We elevate and celebrate the CULTURES OF THE EAST END through publishing GOOD QUALITY BOOKS at affordable prices. Click on the link to see the full selection: spitalfieldslife.bigcartel.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:38 PM
We elevate and celebrate the CULTURES OF THE EAST END through publishing GOOD QUALITY BOOKS at affordable prices. Click on the link to see the full selection: spitalfieldslife.bigcartel.com
Brush away the cobwebs on January 1st with a ramble through two thousand years of history and culture in Spitalfields at the heart of old London: www.thegentleauthorstours.com/p/booking
November 24, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Brush away the cobwebs on January 1st with a ramble through two thousand years of history and culture in Spitalfields at the heart of old London: www.thegentleauthorstours.com/p/booking
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Spitalfields Life @thegentleauthor.bsky.social Colin Thubron Remembers Gillian Tindall spitalfieldslife.com/2025/11/23/c...
November 23, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Spitalfields Life @thegentleauthor.bsky.social Colin Thubron Remembers Gillian Tindall spitalfieldslife.com/2025/11/23/c...
Small chrysanthemums from Columbia Road Market this morning
November 23, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Small chrysanthemums from Columbia Road Market this morning
Colin Thubron's eulogy for Gillian Tindall is published today on Spitalfields Life: spitalfieldslife.com/2025/11/23/c...
November 23, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Colin Thubron's eulogy for Gillian Tindall is published today on Spitalfields Life: spitalfieldslife.com/2025/11/23/c...
Looking forward to Tessa Hunkin's talk about Hackney Mosaic Project at the WRITE IDEA FESTIVAL this Sunday 23rd November at 5:30pm at Tower Hamlets Town Hall in Whitechapel. Free tickets from: ideastore.co.uk/whats-on/wri...
November 22, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Looking forward to Tessa Hunkin's talk about Hackney Mosaic Project at the WRITE IDEA FESTIVAL this Sunday 23rd November at 5:30pm at Tower Hamlets Town Hall in Whitechapel. Free tickets from: ideastore.co.uk/whats-on/wri...
Tickets are free for Tessa Hunkin's talk about Hackney Mosaic Project at the WRITE IDEA FESTIVAL this Sunday 23rd November at 5:30pm at Tower Hamlets Town Hall in Whitechapel.
Tickets from: ideastore.co.uk/whats-on/wri...
Tickets from: ideastore.co.uk/whats-on/wri...
November 20, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Tickets are free for Tessa Hunkin's talk about Hackney Mosaic Project at the WRITE IDEA FESTIVAL this Sunday 23rd November at 5:30pm at Tower Hamlets Town Hall in Whitechapel.
Tickets from: ideastore.co.uk/whats-on/wri...
Tickets from: ideastore.co.uk/whats-on/wri...
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Ich wisshe Ich koude clearlye communicate to my cat that the litel guy doth literallye make lyfe worth livinge everye daye. Ich wisshe Ich koude let hym knowe.
November 15, 2025 at 4:22 AM
Ich wisshe Ich koude clearlye communicate to my cat that the litel guy doth literallye make lyfe worth livinge everye daye. Ich wisshe Ich koude let hym knowe.
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They come across fresh on every encounter. I never knew until now of @thegentleauthor.bsky.social's role in saving them.
Spitalfields Life @thegentleauthor.bsky.social Dorothy Annan’s Murals At The Barbican spitalfieldslife.com/2025/11/17/d...
Spitalfields Life @thegentleauthor.bsky.social Dorothy Annan’s Murals At The Barbican spitalfieldslife.com/2025/11/17/d...
November 17, 2025 at 6:21 PM
They come across fresh on every encounter. I never knew until now of @thegentleauthor.bsky.social's role in saving them.
Spitalfields Life @thegentleauthor.bsky.social Dorothy Annan’s Murals At The Barbican spitalfieldslife.com/2025/11/17/d...
Spitalfields Life @thegentleauthor.bsky.social Dorothy Annan’s Murals At The Barbican spitalfieldslife.com/2025/11/17/d...
Meet me on the steps of St Paul’s Cathedral at Christmas for a walking tour of storytelling and sightseeing through the alleys and byways of the Square Mile to London Bridge in search of the wonders and wickedness of the City of London. Tickets: thegentleauthorstours.com/p/booking
November 17, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Meet me on the steps of St Paul’s Cathedral at Christmas for a walking tour of storytelling and sightseeing through the alleys and byways of the Square Mile to London Bridge in search of the wonders and wickedness of the City of London. Tickets: thegentleauthorstours.com/p/booking
Tickets are free for Tessa Hunkin's talk about Hackney Mosaic Project at the WRITE IDEA FESTIVAL this Sunday 23rd November at 5:30pm at Tower Hamlets Town Hall in Whitechapel.
Tickets available from: www.ideastore.co.uk/whats-on/wri...
Tickets available from: www.ideastore.co.uk/whats-on/wri...
November 17, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Tickets are free for Tessa Hunkin's talk about Hackney Mosaic Project at the WRITE IDEA FESTIVAL this Sunday 23rd November at 5:30pm at Tower Hamlets Town Hall in Whitechapel.
Tickets available from: www.ideastore.co.uk/whats-on/wri...
Tickets available from: www.ideastore.co.uk/whats-on/wri...
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Thei wante us talkinge alone on our phones to a demon thei created, and not goinge places and being wyth each othir yn art and joy and communitye. Thei want cinemas to shut downe, and Broadway to go darke. Thei want wryteres to stop makinge a living. Thei want to sell us hell and have us pay for it.
November 7, 2025 at 4:16 AM
Thei wante us talkinge alone on our phones to a demon thei created, and not goinge places and being wyth each othir yn art and joy and communitye. Thei want cinemas to shut downe, and Broadway to go darke. Thei want wryteres to stop makinge a living. Thei want to sell us hell and have us pay for it.
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Some brave souls choose to face the feare of failure and the terror of a blanke page. Thrugh harde worke and luck thei come back wyth storyes that bringe us mirthe, or horror, or thrilles, or beautye, or wisdom, or delighteful surreal confusioun. Gen A.I. ys nothinge lyke that. Long live artists.
November 8, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Some brave souls choose to face the feare of failure and the terror of a blanke page. Thrugh harde worke and luck thei come back wyth storyes that bringe us mirthe, or horror, or thrilles, or beautye, or wisdom, or delighteful surreal confusioun. Gen A.I. ys nothinge lyke that. Long live artists.
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It ys a such challenging, turbulent, scarye tyme. My greatest wisshe ys that you may fynde sum small moment of peace, delight, mirthe, pleasure, discoverye, connectioun, or fascinacioun that doth make yower day just a litel bettir. Ich wisshe thys for thee wyth all of myne hearte.
November 9, 2025 at 9:16 PM
It ys a such challenging, turbulent, scarye tyme. My greatest wisshe ys that you may fynde sum small moment of peace, delight, mirthe, pleasure, discoverye, connectioun, or fascinacioun that doth make yower day just a litel bettir. Ich wisshe thys for thee wyth all of myne hearte.
I am delighted that Karolina Merska of FOLKA is giving a talk on FORGOTTEN CRAFTS & CUSTOMS IN POLISH FOLK ART this Saturday at 2pm at @bloomsburyjamboree
TICKETS: shorturl.at/1xnaL
TICKETS: shorturl.at/1xnaL
November 12, 2025 at 11:14 AM
I am delighted that Karolina Merska of FOLKA is giving a talk on FORGOTTEN CRAFTS & CUSTOMS IN POLISH FOLK ART this Saturday at 2pm at @bloomsburyjamboree
TICKETS: shorturl.at/1xnaL
TICKETS: shorturl.at/1xnaL
We need volunteers for the BLOOMSBURY JAMBOREE this weekend. We offer goody bags of books in return. If you can help please email [email protected]
November 11, 2025 at 10:36 PM
We need volunteers for the BLOOMSBURY JAMBOREE this weekend. We offer goody bags of books in return. If you can help please email [email protected]
Come to hear James Binning tell the story of the Turner Prize-winning architectural collective ASSEMBLE next Sunday 16th November 12:15pm at the Bloomsbury Jamboree at Art Workers’ Guild in Queen Square WC1N 3AT. Tickets: shorturl.at/1xnaL
November 10, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Come to hear James Binning tell the story of the Turner Prize-winning architectural collective ASSEMBLE next Sunday 16th November 12:15pm at the Bloomsbury Jamboree at Art Workers’ Guild in Queen Square WC1N 3AT. Tickets: shorturl.at/1xnaL
Ranunculus from Columbia Road Market this morning
November 9, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Ranunculus from Columbia Road Market this morning
Read my feature about Maureen Rose of Taylors Buttons & Belts at The World of Interiors online.
www.worldofinteriors.com/story/taylor...
www.worldofinteriors.com/story/taylor...
The fastener show: Taylors Buttons and Belts is as Dickensian as a shop can be
Located in Dickens's childhood home, the century-old Taylors needs crowdfunding to stay afloat
www.worldofinteriors.com
November 7, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Read my feature about Maureen Rose of Taylors Buttons & Belts at The World of Interiors online.
www.worldofinteriors.com/story/taylor...
www.worldofinteriors.com/story/taylor...
Today is publication day for Gillian Tindall's JOURNEY OF A MAN UNKNOWN and we are sending out copies with some freebies. Copies: shorturl.at/Q5rtg
November 6, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Today is publication day for Gillian Tindall's JOURNEY OF A MAN UNKNOWN and we are sending out copies with some freebies. Copies: shorturl.at/Q5rtg
Today is publication day for Gillian Tindall’s novel JOURNAL OF A MAN UNKNOWN. Although Gillian died last month at the age of 87, we take consolation in the knowledge that her final work is published thereby fulfilling her dying wish. Copies: shorturl.at/Q5rtg
November 6, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Today is publication day for Gillian Tindall’s novel JOURNAL OF A MAN UNKNOWN. Although Gillian died last month at the age of 87, we take consolation in the knowledge that her final work is published thereby fulfilling her dying wish. Copies: shorturl.at/Q5rtg