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This year’s festive trip to Poplar with our favourite midwives from Nonnatus House will be a double-bill special. The BBC

The travel and travails of Henry Moore’s Draped Seated Woman ‘Old Flo’ from Stepney, to Yorkshire and back to Canary Wharf

Henry Moore carved his ‘Draped Seated Woman’ for a Stepney Council Estate, so is its current home in Canary Wharf

Anything goes at this gem of a theatre on the Isle of Dogs treasured by emerging writers and performers –

Luba Lukhanina, who fled Ukraine after the Russian invasion in 2022, reminisces about her childhood along the Dnieper River, the

From warehouse worker to housing advocate, octogenarian Derrick Cutler has seen Limehouse transform in real-time and fought on behalf of

The first in a four-part series about the threat to Poplar’s pioneering social housing, we look at how post-war architects

Looking back at the unlikely connection between the Isle of Dogs and the Cold War’s most important chess match of

After nearly a decade in London, Sheshe is still in love with the city, and prouder than ever of her

A new display at the Bromley-by-Bow Centre connects physical space to well-being and invites you to reimagine health from the

St Anne’s Church guards the secrets of Limehouse from the shadows, but this overlooked Hawksmoor gem is a treasure trove

Bromley-by-Bow Centre has teamed up with other charities in the borough to launch a programme of pop-up Repair Cafés helping

Ian Berry: Why he no longer wears denim and how in his art “The constant thing, taking away the portraits,