East End of London - Wikipedia
WEBThe East End of London, often referred to within the London area simply as the East End, is the historic core of wider East London, east of the Roman and medieval walls of the City of London and north of the River Thames.
Cockney: The Distinctive Accent and Culture of London’s East End
WEBApr 6, 2023 · Cockneys speak a dialect of English that is influenced by their East End origins and their diverse ethnic backgrounds. They also use a form of rhyming slang, which involves replacing a word with a phrase that rhymes with it, and then often dropping the second part of the phrase.
Exploring the lost world of the East End - The Jewish Chronicle
WEBApr 2, 2020 · There is something about hearing real people speaking, telling a multitude of stories in their strong East End accents.
The Memory Map of the Jewish East End - History Workshop
WEBApr 2, 2020 · The memory map aims to create a lasting document of both the history and memory traces of the Jewish East End, and attempts to bring the stories and memories of this rapidly vanishing landscape to new audiences.
The true history behind London's much-lauded anti-fascist Battle …
WEBSep 15, 2018 · On October 4, 1936, between 100,000 and 300,000 people — Jews, Irish dockers, trade unionists, socialists and communists — gathered in the East End of London determined to prevent a planned...
Project MUSE - Change and Decline in London's Jewish East End: …
WEBThrough the 1930s, despite a diminishing readership, Yiddish newspapers and publishing continued, and the East End atmosphere was still vibrant with an anglicized Yiddish, suffused with English words, showing what literary …
East End Lives - History Workshop
WEBFeb 22, 2013 · The Victorian establishment had a profound fear of the ‘stew’, the ‘abyss’ of the East End: a netherworld of drunkenness, prostitution and inadequate hygiene. More importantly, they feared that this was where revolution would begin – and they had a point.
A Memory Map of the Jewish East End | The Bartlett Centre for
WEBFew are left who remember this lost world – the Jewish East End is about to slip out of living memory. The Memory Map is a new digital resource designed to capture and preserve the history of Jewish East London and to bring the stories and memories of this vanishing landscape to new audiences.
East London History. Explore the Stories of London's East End
WEBThe East End sits outside the traditional Roman boundaries of the City of London. Initially composed of small villages and hamlets around a Roman road leading from London to Colchester in Essex, this was an area of green and open space compared to the city’s crowded streets.
Our East End: Memories of Life in Disappearing Britain - Goodreads
WEBAug 1, 2008 · This oral history of London's East End spans the period after World War I to the upsurge of prosperity at the beginning of the 1960s—a time period which saw fresh waves of immigrants in the area, the Fascist marches of the 1930s, and its spirited recovery after virtual obliteration during the Blitz. Piers Dudgeon has listened to dozens of ...