Regeneration Songs: Sounds of Investment and Loss in East London, Book review
A scorching collection of essays, Regeneration Songs is crucial reading for anyone seeking to understand their changing city. Moving through
Read moreIn our Cultural Heritage section we look at what makes our neighbourhood unique. We explore the arts, culture and heritage that have formed our identity, including Bow grime music, the East London Suffragettes and the Cockney heritage.
A scorching collection of essays, Regeneration Songs is crucial reading for anyone seeking to understand their changing city. Moving through
Read moreFanny Wilkinson designed 75 of London’s green spaces, including our very own Meath Gardens. Citizen Journalist Kate Rutland explores her life
Read moreOur resident reviewer Tabitha Potts dives into this fantastic book charting the lives, day-jobs and backgrounds of East End fighters
Read moreThis debut novel by Gemma Reeves is a dreamy montage of lives connected by delight in the small things while
Read moreOur reviewer Tabitha Potts casts her eyes over Vicky Newham’s debut murder mystery Turn a Blind Eye, twisting and turning
Read moreA love letter to East London, The Secrets of the Homefront Girls shows how everyone counts whatever their gender, class
Read moreWe talk to Chris Ross, the Cockney poet taking social media by storm with his poems about everyday life in
Read moreCitizen journalist Kate Rutland finds out how the Globe Town Library’s fight against Margarets Thatcher’s ‘anti-gay’ legislation, earned their place
Read moreRoller-skating has brought old and young, beginner and pro skaters together to dance their troubles away in tough times. And
Read moreWith foreign travel likely off the cards this year, we rediscover the seaside holiday destinations that East Enders have long
Read moreCitizen journalist Kate Rutland dives into the records of the Stepney Union Workhouse to unearth the lives of the pauper
Read moreRecently discovered archive photographs of Pelican Cottage reveal its links to the neighbouring William Press Yard and life in ‘fifties
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