London stories

Where else could you find pie and mash, biriani, Suffragette history and a grime music landmark?

An inland city with a taste for the sea

The east Londoner who found inspiration in the history of his home city

Photographing in the 1900s, this Christian missionary hoped to draw attention to his local community

Cyril Arapoff captures life in a dangerously dilapidated apartment block

Sun, sand and… the River Thames

For 100 years, Londoners could rely on this Shoreditch institution

And showed the complexity of social class in the late 19th century

Known locally as Bow Cemetery and the last of London’s Magnificent Seven cemeteries to be built

An East End victory over fascism

The Chinese communities who lived in this pocket of the East End

The life of a Victorian Whitechapel resident made famous because of his physical disabilities

How Spitalfields and Whitechapel offered new lives to thousands fleeing persecution

Dangerous and famous in the Swinging Sixties

How the murders of five women birthed an infamous East End crime story