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Explore the story of Clerkenwell Green and the streets and alleyways that surround it.
The Peel and Brunswick Close Estate TMO are joining forces to raise money for Breast Cancer Now.
Family run workspace celebrates its 40th birthday
Studio Amwell, a new, female-founded, artist-run space in the heart of Clerkenwell, will open its doors for the first time on Thursday 12 October with its...
Islington Guided Walks (the Mayor of Islington's official tour guides) are currently taking applications for their award winning Clerkenwell & Islington Tour...
A group of designers from sustainable design and engineering firm Stantec have created a new map of Farringdon and South Clerkenwell.
Braggart, dueller, womaniser and pioneer of freedom – historian Mark Aston assesses the incredible career of locally born John Wilkes and asks if there are any...
EC1 Echo talks to Paul Marko, author of a new book about Clerkenwell punk band Menace.
Now in its 31st year, Open House Festival takes place over two weekends in September when people open up their homes and buildings for visitors to explore and...
EC1 Echo speaks to Jackie Casey, organiser of August Bank Holiday Weekend’s Clerkenwell Festival.
A team led by artist-curator Gaylene Gould is on a mission to revive a fabled 17th-century healing well in Clerkenwell
At almost 98, poet Eula Harrison has a fierce lyrical gift: “I write in bed and have quite a few pen marks on my bed linen as a result.”
Hazel Phillips tells the amazing story of James Blackburn, Clerkenwell’s ‘white collar’ convict
Islington Council has announced plans for major changes to Clerkenwell Green, writes Amelia Braddick
A new vision for using technology to tell the history of Clerkenwell and Smithfield
Faster broadband for Bunhill and Clerkenwell
Faster broadband is on the cards for council homes as a digital roll-out gets underway.
Title deeds: Clerkenwell pub names explained Betsy Trotwood, Alice Owen, Slaughtered Lamb… Sam Cullen, co-author of a new book on London’s pub names, picks a...
Meet Barnard and Westwood the Royal's favourite stationer Don’t tell everyone, but the Royal’s favourite stationer Barnard and Westwood is based in Clerkenwell...
Forget January’s gym bonanza. Run in Clerkenwell’s parks and streets, and you’ll be better off and healthier, says teacher and runner...
This winter, Danny Bee is starting a new kind of radical walk in the EC1 area By Oliver Bennett The corners of radical Clerkenwell. Photo: Danny Bee There are...
Created in 1843, the same year as Dickens first published ‘A Christmas Carol’, a case can be made for the modern idea of Christmas beginning here...
Monthly Choral Evensong begins at Our Most Holy Redeemer on Exmouth Market this Sunday 4th December By EC1 Echo Daniel Gethin, Fr Christopher Trundle and...
New food initiative Clerkenwell Ready Meals & Food Co- operative will help get food to those who need it this winter By EC1 Echo Photo by blackieshoot on...
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