It was twenty years after the worst of the Blitz that I first got to know Whitechapel and Stepney, Tower Hamlets’ ancient heartlands. It was 1963, the summer after the coldest winter for a century and ...

George Stepney, diplomat, is buried in Westminster Abbey. He has a large monument of white and coloured marbles in the south choir aisle not far from his grave. This is attributed to the sculptor ...