Thursday, July 30, 2015

Annie Besant and the Matchgirls

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One hot June day in 1888 the journalists at 'The Link' newspaper were surprised to find dozens of young girls crowding into their ...

Hannah Billig (The Angel of Cable Street)

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Towards the end of the 19th century Russia began a series of anti-Semitic attacks known as pogroms, pogrom is a Russian word meaning devas...
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Phoebe Hessel (The Woman Who Went to War for Love)

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Ph oebe Hessel was born in Stepney in 1713 and baptized at the local church of St Dunstans. There are two stories of her early life, one t...

Clara Grant (The Farthing Bundle lady)

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Clara Grant was born in a small village in wiltshire in 1867, her father was a local shopkeeper but Clara's dreams stretched further th...
Saturday, April 04, 2015

The Great London Smog of 1952

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To some people, especially to Hollywood film directors London is synonymous with fog. However it's not just directors for even our o...
Tuesday, December 10, 2013

Upper North Street School Bombing

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In June 1917 the 'Great' war had been waging for three years, but that was away in France. In the eastend of London the 13th of Ju...

The Kindertransport

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This statue wasn’t erected in memory of one person but of thousands, they are the children who were saved from Nazi persecution at the start...
Tuesday, October 15, 2013

Anglo Saxon East London

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Anglo Saxons is just a phrase as to who arrived in Britain after the Romans departed, they were all northern europeans but the Angles c...
Friday, October 04, 2013

Queen Alexandra and London Hospital

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There are not many members of the royal family associated with the east end of London. The exception however was Princess Alexandra of Den...
Monday, September 16, 2013

Roman East London

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When the Romans finally settled in Britain for in was on the third attempt in 43AD under the emperor Claudius that they finally came to s...
Friday, September 06, 2013

Mary Tudor and the Stratford Martyrs

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Mary Tudor was the eldest child of King Henry Vlll and Katherine of Aragon, but  as we all know Henry had this  marriage annulled to mar...
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