East End Chronicles

Ed Glinert

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Penguin Books Ltd
31 July 2006

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Local history

4,000 hardcovers sold

The East End-

Roman burial ground, medieval rubbsih tip, Victorian hell hole, WW2 bombing aarget, 21st century gentrification template.

Always a rum place, the industrial revolution replaced rose bushes and hedgerows with metallic roads and iron railways, mud banks gve way to deeo-water docks and sweatshops.

East End Chronicles tells the story of this part of London tht has always enthralled writers and readers through the bizarre, the unusual, the arcane and the mysterious.

Chapters on the Silk Weavers of Spitalfields;

Docks, Dockers and River Pirates; Murder and Mayhem on the Radcliffe Highway;

Myths and MytHmakers;

The Blitz and Bombs;

The Jewish Ghetto and more reveal the real underbelly of the history of the East End.

By: Ed Glinert
Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 19mm
Weight: 247g
ISBN: 9780141017181
ISBN 10: 014101718X
Pages: 336
Publication Date: 31 July 2006
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Ed Glinert was born in Dalston, east London. he is the author of The Literary Guide to London and The London Compendium and leads a variety of walking tours around London. His fascination with people and place, the bizarre and the arcane, coupled with his forensic gift for digging out obscure stoires, is perfectly suited to this uniquely intriguing place.

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East End Chronicles

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