Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Wapping is a thin strip of land on the north bank of the river Thames that’s regarded by some as a litmus test for ...

Now: Publisher of Press Holdings, which includes the Spectator and the Business 'Before Wapping,' I explained recently to a group of young journalists, 'if any of you had done this' - I pressed a ...

THE borough of Stepney, in London’s East End, holds a record which it would probably just as soon do without, although the people who live there speak of it with a certain amount of pride. Stepney, ...

Wapping is a charmer. Unlike so much of east London, where the map is being torn up and redrawn, this is a neighbourhood with a peaceful and settled feel. Regeneration came early here. In the Eighties ...

Just as returning soldiers prefer not to talk about the war, so those running British journalism today rarely mention their involvement in the trauma that swept through newspapers 20 years ago this ...

This stunning penthouse on Execution Dock on the banks of the River Thames in London could be yours for a tidy £4million - provided you can handle its gory history. The top floor apartment in the ...

On 24 January 1986, nearly 6,000 newspaper workers at Rupert Murdoch’s News International went on strike over plans to move print operations from Fleet Street to east London In the mid-1980s, most ...

He was only twenty-five when he arrived in London from Paris in the summer of 1859 and, rejecting the opportunity of staying with his half-sister in Sloane St, he took up lodgings in Wapping instead.

On the 40th anniversary of the Wapping dispute, this Morning Star special supplement traces the long-planned conspiracy that led to the mass sackings of printworkers in 1986 – a struggle whose ...

ON a bitter winter’s day in 1986, Bernie Began and his wife Moira cowered as mounted police corralled demonstrators against a fence. This was the Wapping dispute, a seminal moment in the history of ...

The conversation I had over lunch with a News International executive in early January 1986 was cautious and elliptical. Rupert Murdoch, the chairman of the company that owned The Sun and The Times, ...