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Spitalfields Life Chit Chats: Smithfield Market

The Gentle Author of the popular blog Spitalfields Life has gained an extraordinary following in...

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Spitalfields Life Chit Chats: Billingsgate Market

The Gentle Author of the popular blog Spitalfields Life has gained an extraordinary following in...

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Slingin' the Old Jack Lang: The history of rhyming slang

Rhyming slang can claim to be London's one truly home-grown language. It may have started around...

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Votes, Wages and Milk: The East London Federation of Suffragettes

In October 1912 Sylvia Pankhurst climbed onto a wooden platform outside an old baker's shop on...

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A Time Travelling History of London

Following the publication of London: A Travel Guide Through Time, join historian and broadcaster...

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Red Ken's GLC: Loonies or Visionaries?

Between 1981 and 1986, Ken Livingstone led the most experimental, controversial and influential...

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LGBT London in the 1980s - The Media and the 'Loony Left' label

The success of the recent film Pride has sparked new interest in the history of LGBT activism in...

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The Inaugural C R Ashbee Lecture: The Seven Dark Arts of Developers

The East End Preservation Society and Bishopsgate Institute are delighted to present the...

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Dr Barnardos in the East End of London

Poverty, slums and hungry children. Find out what sights met Doctor Barnardo in London's East End...

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Zeppelin Nights: London in the First World War

Acclaimed writer and historian Jerry White takes a unique look at London during the First World...

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Eleanor Marx: A Life

Rachel Holmes introduces her new book on both the public and the private lives of the exceptional...

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Dirty Old London: The Victorian Fight Against Filth

Lee Jackson explores the secret life of the Victorian metropolis, focusing in particular on the...

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Ten Cities that Made an Empire

Tristram Hunt, author of The Frock-Coated Communist and leading UK politician presents a new...

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The Evolution of Feminism and the Raunch Culture

Rosamund Urwin of the Evening Standard chairs a discussion about the raunch culture and its...

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The Enemy Within

Thirty years ago, miners went on strike across Britain to resist the Tory government's plans for...

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'The Fairyland of Horror':Arthur Morrison, Arthur Harding and the rebranding of the Old Nichol Slum

The most notorious novel of the ‘slum fiction’ genre, Morrison’s A Child of the Jago, caused...

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Columbia Road: A Strange Kind of Paradise

Born on Columbia Road, award-winning author Linda Wilkinson traces the history of the fragrant...

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Dykes! Ditch Those Dungarees:Lesbians Do Fashion

Lesbian fashion. A misnomer? Surely, lesbians don't do fashion. But contrary to perception,...

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Fanny & Stella: The Young Men Who Shocked Victorian England

A tale of cross-dressing, cross-examinations and a scandal that shocked and titillated Victorian...

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A Blaze of Autumn Sunshine: The Last Diaries with Tony Benn

To celebrate the publication of this final volume of his diaries, Tony Benn, in conversation with...

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