The East End by Alan Palmer
For centuries the East End has been synonymous with poverty and sweated labour, with Cockney solidarity and popular protest. The poverty is still there but now, once again, East London is beginning to reshape itself. Alan Palmer takes us back through four centuries of life in this great melting pot which was once the very centre of Empire trade. People as well as goods have flowed in and out of it, from the Huguenot weavers of the 17th century to the Indians, Pakistanis and Bangladeshis of today. Its story is one of extremes - of small deprived streets and great Hawksmoor churches, of great social campaigners like George Lansbury and out-and-out criminals like the Krays. This book, with an introduction by London's great chronicler Peter Ackroyd, seeks to capture 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 for ever.
Alan Palmer grew up on the fringes of east London and remembers it in the 1930s and 1940s. He was a schoolmaster in north London for nearly twenty years. He has written more than thirty books including The Decline and Fall of the Ottoman Empire, Dictionary of the British Empire and Commonwealth and Victory 1918. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1980.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780719556661 |
| ISBN 10 | 071955666X |
| Title | The East End |
| Author | Alan Palmer |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | John Murray Press |
| Year published | 2000-02-17 |
| Number of pages | 220 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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