Writers & Journalists | Untold Stories

Picciotto was born in Syria and migrated to London as a boy, living on Milner Square. He is remembered today chiefly as a writer. After penning a series of popular articles for the Jewish Chronicle, he consolidated them into a book, Sketches of Anglo-Jewish History (1875).

Born in Whitechapel, Levy went to Germany to learn the printing trade. On his return to London he lived in Christopher Street (then known as King Street) in Finsbury and set up a printing company in Fleet Street. By 1855 he was proprietor of the Sunday Times. He later took over and expanded the Daily Telegraph and Courier, installing his son, Edward Levy-Lawson, as editor.

Hyamson was born at 7 Marquess Grove (off Marquess Road), Canonbury, and is best remembered as a prolific writer on Jewish history, for which he was honoured as a fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Before that he had a full life as a civil servant, going on to serve as chief immigration officer in British Mandate Palestine in the 1920s and '30s