Spitalfields has settled into a comfortable niche as one of London’s most authentic and popular neighbourhoods, a place where history meets hipster. Twenty years ago the area appeared doomed, ...

Architectural historian Dan Cruickshank first moved to East London’s Spitalfields in 1977, into 15, Elder Street, the original occupant of which was almost certainly one of the Huguenot weavers whose ...

Few, if any, music festivals are able to serve up the variety of venues that the Spitalfields festivals do. There are eleven of them in all, ranging from the stunning eighteenth-century ...

THE Rector and PCC of Christ Church, Spitalfields, have been granted a faculty to use part of the church’s disputed churchyard as a school playground. The way is now clear for Christ Church to enter ...

Simply sign up to the House & Home myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Every house holds traces of its former occupants. Some hold more than others. 19 Princelet Street, one of the ...

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Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Eight hundred years ago, London’s Spitalfields was as it was named: fields belonging to the priory hospital just ...

A new art gallery conversion is a lesson in how to revitalise Spitalfields — the ugly block next door shows how not to... What would London be without Spitalfields, that ever-bubbling pot of poverty ...

For the last 30 years, the literary reputation of the working-class London neighborhoods of Spitalfields and Whitechapel has revolved around two men: Nicholas Hawksmoor and Jack the Ripper. Jack the ...

In the latest post of this new series, London blogger Katie Wignall shares her top five interesting finds in Spitalfields. Located at the edge of the City, Spitalfields has always been a place of ...

Researchers are getting closer to uncovering the identity of a mysterious Roman woman who died in the 4th century AD and was buried in an elaborate grave in what is now Spitalfields Market in London.

Hawksmoor's imposing Baroque Christ Church is itself among the primary reasons to go to either of Spitalfields' two music festivals. Yet neither next Christmas's nor next summer's events will be held ...