A London-focused newsletter listing free and affordable things to do in the city, including exhibitions, talks, festivals and family outings. It mixes weekly event roundups with occasional first-person guides to cheap days out.
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Original local investigative journalism about London, covering who holds power in the city and issues like water pollution, councils and local institutions. Readers get in-depth reporting, follow-ups, and behind-the-scenes updates from a small reader-funded newsroom.
A thrice-weekly newsletter on London's history, with walking tours, deep dives into hidden or wartime sites, quizzes and event announcements. Paying subscribers get a Friday edition, and free readers get a teaser.
A fortnightly independent local newspaper covering the London Borough of Hackney, with news, council and transport coverage, local history profiles and arts reporting. Readers get original, locally reported stories with quotes from residents, officials and artists.
Robin Jarossi, a non-fiction author, writes about British and Australian crime and hidden history, mixing archival detail with first-hand anecdotes such as his time as a young reporter in Hackney. Readers get well-researched accounts of notorious cases, including the Krays, WWII serial killers and police surveillance.
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