From mutton curry to powdered Heinz Tomato Soup, comfort food can take countless forms, all depending on who’s enjoying it while sitting, strolling or leaning over the kitchen sink. Though there’s a ...

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 ...

London is a cosmopolitan city, and if you know where to look, it's possible to find incredible halal food options. Except for the shopping stretch of Oxford Street, you might have to travel ...

Hamish the pygmy goat, Derek the donkey, Watson and Holmes the kunekune pigs. No, we're not in a beloved children's television programme, we're simply in east London. Spitalfields City Farm was set up ...

East London's popular Old Spitalfields Market may have once supplied Victorian London with its fresh fruit and vegetables, but until recently it has become more renowned for its eclectic mix of ...

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, ...

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 ...