Ridley Road Market, Tamara Stoll, book review: ‘Eight-year labour of love that captures the soul of a Hackney institution’
This book-in-the-making by photographer Tamara Stoll tells the story of the market, in aid of the Save Ridley Road campaign
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Snapshot of Ridley Road: Youth project photographs locals inside under-threat Shopping Village
Future Hackney is recording the plight of the iconic but fast-changing market street in Dalston
Filmmakers chronicling gentrification in Hackney to set up stall at Ridley Road
Future Hackney wants to capture and preserve local history – while giving youngsters a chance to get behind the lens
We need to talk about Dalston: Town Hall launches major listening exercise for locals
The Dalston Conversation will ‘put residents’ priorities at the heart of the council’s work’
Charity launches illustrated book by Hackney schoolchildren about ‘rapidly changing’ Ridley Road Market
Princess May pupils took part in a project run by House of Illustration
Lucinda Rogers to exhibit drawings of a changing Ridley Road Market
The London artist and campaigner took to the streets to depict scenes many fear will be lost to gentrification, the overarching topic of the exhibition
Hackney One Carnival returns on 10 September – we have all the details
Find out the new route, what’s on, the prospective weather and more in our guide to next weekend’s festivities
Get checked: Prostate Cancer Roadshow for African and Caribbean men to arrive in Dalston on Monday
Charities Orchid and Cancer Black Care will be at Ridley Road Market from 9am – 4pm
New phone app to gift locals a “poetic satnav” of Hackney and its history
a hackney autobiography, created by social enterprise On The Record, uses the oral history, music and GPS technology to create spellbinding ‘audio tours’
Dalston in the 80s by Andrew Holligan, book review: “bursting with culture and steeped in challenge”
This collection of black and white photography nonetheless depicts “life in its many colours” with a personal, diary-like feel
‘Later potater!’ The uncommon history of the common spud
From its origins in South America to the market stalls of Ridley Road, the potato is a much travelled root with a chequered past
Too late to stop Nao: interview
Nao is one of the brightest stars on the UK’s musical horizon, with a sound born of the hustle and bustle of East London
Too late to stop Nao: interview
Nao is one of the brightest stars on the UK’s musical horizon, with a sound born of the hustle and bustle of East London
Literacy on the high seas: Hackney Pirates looks back on an incredible six years
Pioneering afterschool club’s founder Catriona Maclay looks back on its successes thus far
New Kid – footwear with Florentine flair now available from new Dalston shoe store
A new addition opens on Ridley Road, New Kid Footwear’s Tiny Store, next door to the Dalston Fabric Mill
Scoffing offal – an East End history
Once considered a cheap dish fit only for the poor, offal is in fact a delicacy in its own right