Taking a moment on the holiday weekend to celebrate a community and project dear to my heart: the Whitechapel Stories Mural for Sidney Street, funded by the The National Lottery Heritage Fund, as we launch the project website at www.whitechapelstories.org.

Thanks to Richard Wiltshire, the borough archivist, for hosting this morning's Whitechapel Stories session at Tower Hamlets Archives.

For our first session this morning, our Whitechapel Stories group ventured around the neighbourhood, using a range of old maps, photos, newspaper clippings and other historical resources to make sense of what we saw.

Sign up for the Whitechapel Stories proWe’re currently recruiting participants for the Whitechapel Stories project: an eight-week series of hands-on history workshops, guided walks, and online research sessions which will help us shape up ideas for the Sidney Street mural.