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Author : Steve Lewis
Release : 2015-04-06
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 756/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis London's East End Then & Now by : Steve Lewis
Download or read book London's East End Then & Now written by Steve Lewis. This book was released on 2015-04-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of London's East End
Author : Alan Palmer
Release : 2000
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 267/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The East End by : Alan Palmer
Download or read book The East End written by Alan Palmer. This book was released on 2000. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For centuries the East End of London was synonymous with poverty and brutal labor, with Cockney solidarity and popular protest. The poverty is still there but now--once again--East London is beginning to reshape itself. Fashionable riverside restaurants multiply and shining new office buildings spread south toward the Millennium Dome. Now the term "East End" begins to have a different ring. Alan Palmer takes us back through four centuries of life in this great melting pot, which was once the very center of Empire trade. Both people and goods have flowed in and out of it, from the Huguenot weavers of the seventeenth century to the Indians, Pakistanis and Bangladeshis of today. Its story is one of extremes--of narrow, dingy streets and grand Hawksmoor churches, of great social campaigners, and out-and-out criminals like the Krays. This fascinating book, with an introduction by London's great chronicler Peter Ackroyd, captures the spirit of the East End and its people, of those who have left their mark on it and those whose lives were marked by it forever.
Author : Gilda O'Neill
Release : 2000-09-28
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 383/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis My East End by : Gilda O'Neill
Download or read book My East End written by Gilda O'Neill. This book was released on 2000-09-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Every page is a delight. Every chapter made vivid by a writer who has poured heart and soul into her book' Val Hennessy, Daily Mail The East End of London - cockneys, criminals, street markets, pub singalongs, dog racing, jellied eels . . . It is a place at once appealing and unruly, comforting and incomprehensible. Gilda O'Neill, an East Ender herself, shows there is more to this fascinating area than a collection of clichéd images. Using oral history and more traditional sources, she builds up a powerful image of this community - bringing to us, with wit and honesty, the real story of London's East End WHAT READERS ARE SAYING ABOUT MY EAST END: 'A true and detailed account of a community that has been sadly lost' Amazon Reader Review 'Excellent reading for anyone interested in the early life of London, one can't help being mesmerised by the hardships they endured!' Amazon Reader Review 'An extremely interesting and well-researched book' Amazon Reader Review
Author : Winston G. Ramsey
Release : 1997
Genre : East End (London, England)
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Book Rating : 990/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The East End Then and Now by : Winston G. Ramsey
Download or read book The East End Then and Now written by Winston G. Ramsey. This book was released on 1997. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charting the colourful history of the East End, this book relives all the major incidents amid then and now photographs. The Ratcliff Highway murders, the sinking of the Princess Alice, the Albion disaster, the Sidney Street siege, the Battle of Cable Street and the Bethnal Green tube shelter disaster are all featured. The philanthropists, suffragettes, Jack the Ripper and the Krays are other high profile characters included in this densely illustrated title.
Author : Paul Newland
Release : 2008-01-01
Genre : Social Science
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Book Rating : 244/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Cultural Construction of London’s East End by : Paul Newland
Download or read book The Cultural Construction of London’s East End written by Paul Newland. This book was released on 2008-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paul Newland’s illuminating study explores the ways in which London’s East End has been constituted in a wide variety of texts – films, novels, poetry, television shows, newspapers and journals. Newland argues that an idea or image of the East End, which developed during the late nineteenth century, continues to function in the twenty-first century as an imaginative space in which continuing anxieties continue to be worked through concerning material progress and modernity, rationality and irrationality, ethnicity and 'Otherness', class and its related systems of behaviour. The Cultural Construction of London’s East End offers detailed examinations of the ways in which the East End has been constructed in a range of texts including BBC Television’s EastEnders, Monica Ali’s Brick Lane, Walter Besant’s All Sorts and Conditions of Men, Thomas Burke’s Limehouse Nights, Peter Ackroyd’s Hawksmoor, films such as Piccadilly, Sparrows Can’t Sing, The Long Good Friday, From Hell, The Elephant Man, and Spider, and in the work of Iain Sinclair.
