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In the News (Tue 24 Nov 09)

  
  BBC - h2g2 - The East End of London, UK
To the west, the border is the City of London, to the south the River Thames, to the east the A102M motorway and the River Lea and to the north, Victoria Park and Hackney Road.
There is a street market open every day opposite the Hospital, at one end of which is a new, small and very odd restaurant in a purpose-built modern building on the pavement that used to be a public convenience.
It is curious that the East End can espouse both the Socialism and Pacifism of Lansbury at the same time as Anarchism at Sidney Street and the National Socialism of Mosley.
www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/A513596   (2232 words)

  
  Jack the Ripper As the Threat of Outcast London. Robert F. Haggard
The police were generally more concerned with prostitution in the West End since "it was [there] 0more likely to come to the notice of respectable persons, press reporters, and foreigners." For most of the 1880s, East End prostitutes were left to ply their trade in relative peace.
It is only a drunken husband having a row with his wife."33 What made the East End especially disturbing was the fact that the rest of Victorian society was becoming noticeably less violent; crime had been declining in proportion to the population since the middle of the century.
By early November, the East End was in such a state of exasperation at the police's failure to end the string of murders that each arrest brought crowds into the streets; on several occasions, innocent men were very nearly lynched.
etext.lib.virginia.edu /journals/EH/EH35/haggard1.html   (5546 words)

  
 NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Brick Lane   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Brick Lane is a street in the East End of London and heart of the city's Bangladeshi community.
The East End of London, known locally as the East End, is an area, with no formal authority or boundaries, that spans a number of administative districts of London in England.
Christ Church, Spitalfields Christ Church, Spitalfields was designed by Hawksmoor and built between 1715 and 1729 in London, UK on the borders of the City of London.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Brick-Lane   (1401 words)

  
 Spartanburg SC | GoUpstate.com | Spartanburg Herald-Journal   (Site not responding. Last check: )
By the late 19th century, the East End roughly corresponded to the Tower division of Middlesex which from 1900 formed the metropolitan boroughs of Stepney, Bethnal Green, Poplar and Shoreditch in the County of London.
Towards the end of the 19th century, a new wave of radicalism came to the East End, arriving both with Jewish émigrés fleeing from Eastern European persecution, and Russian and German radicals avoiding arrest.
After a bitter struggle, the London Dock Strike of 1889 was settled with victory for the strikers, and established a national movement for the unionisation of casual workers, as opposed to the craft unions that already existed.
www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=East_End_of_London   (3415 words)

  
 East End travel guide - Wikitravel
The East End is an area of London.
The East End is an area made famous by the TV show EastEnders, a BBC soap opera about the life of people living in Albert Square, Walford, which is a fictional location.
The East End is the home of "Cockney Rhyming Slang" a dialect of English where words are substituted for other words which they rhyme with.
wikitravel.org /en/London/East_End   (0 words)

  
 Casebook: Jack the Ripper - Victorian London
"East and West London" - Selections from a book by the Rev. Harry Jones of St. George's-in-the-East on his impressions of East London, subtitled "Being notes of common life and pastoral work in Saint James's, Westminster, and in Saint George's-in-the-East".
Photographs of Victorian London - A slideshow of period photographs displaying various scenes of late nineteenth century London.
Photographs of the Modern East End - A collection of photographs of modern Whitechapel, Spitalfields and surrounding areas, taken during May and June of 1999, and July, 2000.
www.casebook.org /victorian_london   (1475 words)

  
 Late Seventeenth-Century London
From war, plague and fire, London emerged into the last quarter of the seventeenth century a city startling for its wealth and poverty, its bright modernity and ageless squalor.
Essentially the West End, Westminster and its neighbours, was dominated by the aristocracy and the well-to-do seeking access to the Royal Court and Parliament.
The East End was significantly poorer and the City of London within the Walls was the centre of a mercantile elite famous for both its wealth, its own self-conscious culture of politeness and its boorish lack of aristocratic manners.
www.oldbaileyonline.org /history/london-life/london-life17th.html   (1267 words)

  
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Today, the East End is best known as the city's main Bangladeshi neighborhood, as famous for its curry houses as it once was for its kosher food and bagels.
For many of these, the East End would forever be associated with poverty and deprivation - a feeling that explains a lack of community enthusiasm for conservation efforts, says South African-born lawyer Clive Bettington.
Anna Tzelniker, the last of London's Yiddish acting stars, smiles at the thought of the four Yiddish theatres that once staged melodramas in the language of the newly arrived Eastern European immigrants.
www.ynetnews.com /articles/0,7340,L-3313848,00.html   (965 words)

  
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I have photocopied maps of the Jewish East End at the turn of the century and marked in red the path we are to follow.
The poor Jewish inhabitants of the East End donated their pennies and three pences to erect this memorial as a mark of respect, their loyalty to the crown as loyal citizens and mainly in gratitude for having been allowed to stay and being given shelter.
In 1975 the synagogue was reconsecrated as the East London Central Synagogue and in 1982 the synagogue became the amalgamation of 18 synagogues.
www.ibiblio.org /yiddish/Places/London/london.htm   (6047 words)

  
 Fathom :: The Source for Online Learning
Since the 1880s, Jewish immigrants from Russia and Eastern Europe have come to the East End of London to build new lives away from the poverty and persecutions of their homelands.
Anna Tzelniker recounts her life from Romania to the East End of London.
I was mobilised to the Polish army before the war began and the unit in which I served found itself in that land which the Soviet army annexed.
www.fathom.com /feature/190222/index.html   (596 words)

  
 Food Futures
Five adjoining boroughs in East London, who are working in partnership for the first time to make fresh healthy food available locally, will be represented at the event.
East London and the City, one of the country’s most deprived and ethnically mixed health authority areas, also has very high morbidity rates.
East London holds many of the most deprived housing estates in the UK which have now become ‘food deserts’ with few or no shops selling affordable fresh produce.
www.soilassociation.org /web/sa/saweb.nsf/848d689047cb466780256a6b00298980/80256ad800554549802568b100434072!OpenDocument   (665 words)

  
 Independent Online Edition > Profiles   (Site not responding. Last check: )
He is buttressing its presentation at the Hackney Empire with a photographic exhibition of the disappearing East End of his boyhood.
His local London expanded from Whitechapel - known as "the waste" - across to Hackney and Stamford Hill, but he was always drawn to the East End heartbeat of clubs, theatres, swimming baths and stalls.
His play is a way of both expressing that dismay, and glorifying the vitality of East End life in those days; a trip down the vibrant Petticoat Lane of poverty and optimism, pickles and bagels, energy and ambition.
news.independent.co.uk /people/profiles/article2124821.ece   (997 words)

  
 United for Peace : London Mayor Blames Middle East Policy
The London mayor told BBC News he had no sympathy with the bombers and he opposed all violence.
He said the unity shown by Londoners in the wake of the attacks was a commemoration to those who died and showed a determination not to give in to terrorism.
The mayor said most of the Tube would be working normally by the end of the week and the Underground should be working as before by the end of the month.
www.unitedforpeace.org /article.php?id=2979&printsafe=1   (795 words)

  
 London's East End
East of the great medieval fortress that is the Tower of London lies one of the most colourful, fascinating and eventful areas of London.
Thought of as perhaps the real London, the site of industry, dockyards and commerce, the was the port where immigrants arrived, where the Jewish community settled in medieval times and returned in the 17th and 19th centuries, where successive waves of refugees have left their mark and where goods came from all over the world.
Now it is the London of some of the most influential modern artists, and the elegant streets once inhabited by 18th century silk weavers have been newly gentrified.
www.unitedvacations.com /activities/detail.asp?code=LONEST^^^&Dest=LON&codeType=F   (263 words)

  
 An untraditional visit of London - East End | Waymag.com - travel magazine
For instance East End – it is true East End is less familiar district, but it is full of vivid culture of many nations, exotic restaurants and interesting historical nooks.
East End is situated in eastern part of London on a north coast of the River Thames and it is the right ward for lovers of walks without any official tour-guide and without queues for entrance to popular sights.
East End is bounded by the centre of the City of London on the west, by the River Lea on the east and by Victoria Park on the north.
www.waymag.com /travel-info/visit-london-east-end   (1219 words)

  
 London East Research Institute
The Greater London Authority Plan for London and the proposals for Thames Gateway indicate a massive shift in the planned growth of population, jobs, housing, commerce and transport to the East.
The University of East London in its own trajectory as an institution exemplifies the historic shifts in demography and economy I have been talking about.
The establishment of London East at this critical juncture in the history of both the university and the region is an attempt to pull together this work and give it a strategic focus.
www.uel.ac.uk /londoneast/research/AreWeThatName.htm   (1395 words)

  
 CNN.com - London: An East End transformation - Jan. 9, 2004
Across much of the East End, and a larger area known as East London, public housing projects and slums suffer some of the nation's worst unemployment, crime, poverty and outbreaks of long-term illnesses such as tuberculosis.
The East End's revival is part of a dramatic postindustrial transformation of the city of 7.2 million since the 1960s, from manufacturing to financial and business services.
Broadly defined, the heart of London twists with the Thames from the Houses of Parliament and Big Ben through the law courts area and the City, London's Wall Street, to an amorphous sprawl of districts collectively known as the East End.
www.cnn.com /2004/TRAVEL/01/09/east.end.comeback.ap   (1455 words)

  
 Respect: A new dawn has broken over London's East End
Here’s Respect’s statement on the 2005 election results in the East End where they won one seat and came second in two others – perhaps a bit strong on the hyperbole, but given some fantastic results I can forgive that.
As our battle bus toured east London the waves and cheers of support came in their majority from those who have nothing to sell but their capacity to work and whose work produces everything we see around us and every service we avail ourselves of.
We aim to launch a charter for the people of east London, reaching out to those areas where we have only begun to make inroads, and to organise around it to politically lay siege to the seats of power in Westminster and the City of London.
www.guerrillanews.com /blogs/5973/Respect_A_new_dawn_has_broken_over_London_s_East_End?r=4   (1450 words)

  
 Clara Collet and Charles Booth
Booth wanted someone to take on the large task of quantifying women's work in the East End and asked Beatrice if she would undertake this task.
And Miss Collet in connection with that took up her residence in the East End, and lived there for three months (she gave altogether four months to the work), and during that three months she was continually engaged in trying to come in contact with the girls, and those who were working amongst them.
The quality is considered to be superior to that contributed by Beatrice Potter and added considerably to knowledge about all aspects of women's work in the East End from confectioner to fur puller, from laundress to umbrella maker.
www.victorianweb.org /victorian/gender/collet/booth.html   (867 words)

  
 The East London theatre archive : JISC
East London has made a unique contribution to the development of theatre and theatre studies - it was the East End of London that first brought musical hall and variety to the world which grew into vaudeville and burlesque with their multifarious European and American incarnations.
This project will celebrate and facilitate research into East London theatres and their history by making the precious archives of these buildings available to researchers and students with an academic interest in charting the influence and power of the area’s contribution to theatre today.
The history of theatre in the East End has been a comparatively under-researched subject area, partly due to the inaccessibility of primary research materials.
www.jisc.ac.uk /whatwedo/programmes/programme_digitisation/theatre.aspx   (738 words)

  
 London: South Bank and East End Neighborhoods
When I was in London for a recent long weekend, I took a tour of the Globe, and the guide noted that nowadays heckling is encouraged at the dramas staged.
I needed the sustenance, for soon I was walking again, this time over the London Bridge to Whitechapel and on through the East End.
Many of London’s most glorious attractions are free: the British Museum, the National Gallery, the Tate Modern, and the Changing of the Guard at Buckingham Palace, to name a few.
www.viamagazine.com /top_stories/articles/london_calling07.asp   (1818 words)

  
 Victorian London - Crime - Prostitution - East End prostitutes
This house may be taken as a fair sample of the brothels existing in the East End of London.
On the stage some interesting drama was going on, while the spectators drank and smoked; the majority were men, but they were in many instances accompanied by their wives and sweethearts.
To make observations on the latter was my object, and I noted that in and out of the passages and bar were passing crowds of well-dressed women, according to East End fashions; some were prostitutes, but many were married women, according to the belief of my informants.
www.victorianlondon.org /crime/eastendprostitutes.htm   (759 words)

  
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 In London, Olympics Could Spur East End Makeover - Newsweek Society - MSNBC.com   (Site not responding. Last check: )
This is the London that tourists shun, a dreary patch of the East End bypassed by the city's prosperity.
Londoners rejoiced on Wednesday as the International Olympic Committee announced that London had won its bid to host the 2012 Olympic games, with Stratford designated as the home to a brand new Olympic Village worth $1.1 billion and a sparkling 80,000-seat stadium in nearby Lea.
“London is at a cusp of becoming a capitol of the world—a place where hundreds of cultures meet, especially in the East End [where new immigrant groups have traditionally lived],” says Jo Valentine, CEO of London First, a nonprofit promoter of inward investment into the city.
www.cnbc.com /id/8487518/site/newsweek   (1037 words)

  
 The East-End - London Travel Guide
IF one side of London has become the chief scene of consumption, the other, lying beside its river port, was early destined to the duty of supply.
The most time-honoured structure at this end, which stands just upon the City edge, is the Tower, now dwarfed to a toy beside that lofty Tower Bridge that seems designed as a gigantic gateway and portcullis for the port of London.
The spices that help to embalm fiction are style, which he had at least clear and careful, humour, in which his taste was not too fine for the average reader, and sympathy, that is akin to true humour as well as to pathos.
madeinatlantis.com /london/east_end.htm   (923 words)

  
 The cockneys of East London
There were some real characters about, and they all had one thing in common; they loved the East End they were born in and would never dream of leaving it.
Many cannot wait to leave the East End that their families have cherished for generations.
It is a shame that another bit of London life has gone by the wayside.
www.barryoneoff.co.uk /html/the_cockneys.html   (865 words)

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