Sylvia Pankhurst and Cycling for Suffrage
Since former mayor Boris Johnson boosted the biking boom back in the early 2010s, London’s status as a cycling city
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Cultural heritage
From the Suffragettes to Wiley to Cockney Rhyming Slang, Roman Road has an uniquely East End heritage full of pioneers and radicals.
The life of East End suffragette and photographer Norah Smyth
Norah Lyle Smyth was a British suffragette, novelist, photographer and a socialist activist who worked alongside Sylvia Pankhurst on the
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The Kray Twins notorious Double R Club on Bow Road, now Enterprise Car Rental
The Double R Club was a notorious night-club on Bow Road named after and owned by the former gangsters, the
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The V&A Museum of Childhood, from common land to local landmark
Once common land for Bethnal Green, the V&A Museum of Childhood was funded by Prince Albert’s Great Exhibition, tiled by
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Four Corners and Camerawork: Radical Visions exhibition and Modern Suffragette photography training
Film and photography centre and charity Four Corners has a long history of campaigning and community activism in East London.
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London’s East End book review: A guide for family and local historians by Jonathan Oates
London’s East End is a thoroughly researched and fascinating book aimed specifically at readers who are looking into their East
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The history of Mile End tube station and its NYC subway design
The well-known East London tube station takes its name from the A11 Mile End Road and is named after a
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The history of Roman Road Market
Roman Road Market has a rich and varied history, as befits its status as one of the oldest trading street
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Dawud Marsh looks at Roman Road then and now [GALLERY]
These ‘then and now’ photographs of Roman Road Market, recreating archive images from the 1960s to the 1990s, reveal how
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Roman Road Market traders pay tribute to Brian Baker
Roman Road market traders paid tributes to wheelwright Brian Baker who passed away on 25th July. On Saturday a traditional
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