The east London neighborhood of Spitalfields was once one of the poorest slums in the British capital, the place where Victorian serial killer Jack the Ripper stalked his prey. Today, it’s a trendy ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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.