Sutton House

Redundancies at Sutton House could have 'dramatic impact', warns heritage group

Hackney Society alarmed over plans, which National Trust says are still under consultation

Author: Catriona Harrison

"A kingdom of her own in Hackney": Sutton House. Image: Wikimedia Commons

Feast for the eyes

Our resident food historian on Tudor banquets, Mantel, and the two Thomases

Author: Gillian Riley

‘Real sense of history’: Family photos donated by Hackney women on display at Sutton House

Cherelle Sappleton’s exhibition, featuring snaps gifted by the local community, offers a highly personal glimpse into the borough’s past

Author: Hackney Citizen

‘Real sense of history’: Family photos donated by Hackney women on display at Sutton House

Campaigners calling for more places for child refugees to host free evening of films

Safe Passage UK will ask the council to welcome more child refugees and push the government to do the same

Author: Hackney Citizen

Campaigners calling for more places for child refugees to host free evening of films

‘Quiet integrity’: folk icon Shirley Collins to break silence and discuss new memoir for Pages of Hackney

Sussex singer – who lost her voice for decades – will spend an evening at Homerton’s Sutton House reading extracts from All in the Downs and chatting about her experiences of a folk revival career spanning over 60 years

Author: Hackney Citizen

Shirley Collins - 'a key figure in English and American folk music' despite losing her voice to dysphonia for nearly 40 years

Turn up for the books: we look forward to an eventful October for Hackney’s independent bookshops

The borough’s bookshops are increasingly staging events to get readers off Amazon, out of their houses and through their doors. We preview a few such bashes in this look at the lay of the literary land

Author: Hackney Citizen

Refurbished: Broadway Bookshop has taken an opportunity to ring the changes

Mostly 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’…

Author: Hackney Citizen

Are Sutton House’s oak-panelled rooms teeming with ghosts? Photograph: National Trust, composite image: Hackney Citizen

Redundancies at Sutton House could have 'dramatic impact', warns heritage group

Feast for the eyes

‘Real sense of history’: Family photos donated by Hackney women on display at Sutton House

Campaigners calling for more places for child refugees to host free evening of films

‘Quiet integrity’: folk icon Shirley Collins to break silence and discuss new memoir for Pages of Hackney

Turn up for the books: we look forward to an eventful October for Hackney’s independent bookshops

Mostly ghostly: a whistlestop tour of Hackney’s spirit world

East End exhibitions – five of the best for August

Pages of Hackney lines up Charles Saumarez Smith and talks on climate change and Brexit in July events programme

Oh come all ye faithful – to Hackney’s festive markets

Quince essentials: the local story of an exotic fruit

Hot child, summer in the city: Free August events for kids in Hackney