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Hackney UNISON: ‘There’s never been a more important time to join us’
The borough’s largest trade union pays tribute to its members tackling the coronavirus crisis, and invites anyone who values their rights to sign up. Find out how…
Read MoreLocked up in lockdown: How coronavirus has exposed the flaws in our prison system
Charities speak out amid growing concerns for the physical and mental health of inmates, with restrictions taking a ‘terrible toll’
Read MoreCoronavirus: How the pandemic is reshaping green activism
Climate campaigners in Hackney on shifting strategies, and what we can learn from the response to Covid-19
Read MoreHackney communities ‘pull together’ in face of pandemic’s massive impact
Ed Sheridan finds out how some of Hackney’s minority groups are coping with the coronavirus lockdown
Read MoreCoronavirus: How the pandemic is changing the fight against child exploitation
Youth charities call for cohesive approach after warning lockdown measures could be ‘perfect storm’ for criminality
Read MorePeanut butters and Tokyo cherries: Hackney’s street trees are a balm for a city in crisis
According to author Paul Wood, who documents the capital’s trees, the borough ‘truly is London’s urban arboretum’
Read MoreEast End Canal Tales, Carolyn Clark, book review: ‘Rare glimpse of a bygone world’
Dozens of photos and snippets from horse-drivers, lock keepers and others feature in this social history of East London’s major waterways
Read MoreTelling Tales: The floating children’s bookshop gathering a steady stream of followers
Daisy and Jon Hollings’ roving business is ‘not your standard model, but it seems to be working’
Read MoreLiteracy charity appeals for volunteers as it prepares for Hackney expansion
The Citizen finds out how Bookmark is trying to reach its goal for ‘every child to read’
Read MoreBeyond jam and Jerusalem: A different side to the Women’s Institute in Hackney Wick
A growing unit is combining tradition with defying stereotypes through feminist crafts, cocktails and pumpkin activism
Read MoreSwimming against the plastic current: Bettina Maidment on spearheading River Lea clean-up
The Plastic Free Hackney founder spoke to the Citizen after a team of 120 volunteers took part in the Big Spring Beach Clean last weekend
Read More2018 – A divisive twelve months, but greener pastures await (in Hackney at least!)
We look back at a year in which the political atmosphere in the UK has been poisonous, but one that showed Hackney is doing its bit for the atmosphere that really matters – the one that keeps us alive
Read MoreMaking Her Mark: new exhibition shows that women’s activism in Hackney didn’t end after 1918
The stories of Hackney’s female activists over the past century are being celebrated at Hackney Museum – plus, a chance to nominate your own inspirational local women
Read MoreMostly ghostly: a whistlestop tour of Hackney’s spirit world
With Halloween haunting the horizon, we bring you ghost stories! Read about the supernatural tenants of one of Hackney’s oldest buildings Sutton House, and learn Dalston’s history of occult investigations – featuring a ‘scandal that shook Victorian spiritualism to the core’…
Read MoreHackney’s new barbershops: crews, cuts and cultural communities
Barbershops associated with particular identities and interests are joining traditional haircutters on Hackney’s high streets
Read More“We’ll be unemployed”: meet the locals caught up in Hackney Wick’s ‘Industrial Devolution’
Non-profit LandSky & The Yard theatre partner up for new interview project aiming to bring voices of the Wick to life
Read MoreNew 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’
Read MoreThey shall not pass! Commemorating the Battle of Cable Street
This month a series of events marks 80 years since this defining episode in East London’s history
Read MoreWhy birdwatching is the new favourite pastime for East Londoners
Long considered the preserve of the uncool, birdwatching is fast gaining in popularity among city dwellers
Read MoreTom Hunter on squatting in Hackney during the 90s: 'It gave my art a meaning and a purpose'
The photographer recalls life as a student on Ellingfort Road, then a fully squatted street, and the community he helped to build – and battled to save
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