Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. As well as a range of community projects, this year’s Spitalfields Winter Festival presents a series of ...

The site of Christ Church in Spitalfields is a huge burial pit from the days of not only the plague but long before that. 8,000 skeletons of plague victims were recently exhumed from beneath the ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. It is the kind of story that echoes down Spitalfields’s history: Hyman Massil emigrated from Byelorussia in 1905, ...

This opening concert of Spitalfields Festival 2021 was my first live music since March 2020. Approaching Christ Church Spitalfields, I felt a degree of apprehension: would I still be able to manage ...

For London music-lovers fed up with Christmas shopping and foul weather, the Spitalfields Winter Festival offers uplift and calm – and warmth (this is one church that isn’t draughty). You can slip ...

There’s a photograph of the nave of Nicholas Hawksmoor’s Christ Church, Spitalfields, that sticks in my mind like few others. Taken by Bill Toomey in 1974, the photograph shows not the pristinely ...

"Spitalfields Festival is the best organised and most entertaining festival in the world," declared Andrew Carwood, director of The Cardinall's Musick. He might have added "friendliest". There is ...

This opening concert of Spitalfields Festival 2021 was my first live music since March 2020. Approaching Christ Church Spitalfields, I felt a degree of apprehension: would I still be able to manage ...