From Jewish clothing merchants to Bangladeshi curry houses; ancient docks to the 2012 Olympics; the area east of the City has always played a crucial role in Londons history. The East End; as it has been known; was the home to Shakespeares first theater and to the early stirrings of a mass labor movement; it has also traditionally been seen as a place of darkness and despair; where Jack the Ripper committed his gruesome murders; and cholera and poverty stalked the Victorian streets.In this beautifully illustrated history of this iconic district; John Marriott draws on twenty-five years of research into the subject to present an authoritative and endlessly fascinating account. With the aid of copious maps; archive prints and photographs; and the words of East Londoners from seventeenth-century silk weavers to Cockneys during the Blitz; he explores the relationship between the East End and the rest of London; and challenges many of the myths that surround the area.
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