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2008: Holocaust Memorial Day 2008, Dick James, Sir David Lean obituary, Leon Greenman, Barry Morse, William Fishman, IK Brunel, Jack London, Terence Stamp, The Whitechapel Boys, Victorian Water shortages, Trinity Buoy Wharf, The Freedom Society, St Dunstan’s Church, The Prescot Street Dig, Olympic site bomb, WW Jacobs and The Monkey’s Paw, Mark Bomberg, International Workingmen’s Association, Faithful Companions of Jesus, Emanuel Litvinoff, Dock strike to UNITE, Derelict London, Charles Bradlaugh, Bishopsgate Bom, Big Ben Anniversary, Ben Jonson on the Isle of Dogs, Whitechapel Bell Foundry anniversary, Alfred Fernandez Yarrow, Barney Barnato, Rotherhithe Tunnel centenary, Lea Valley the new Venice

2007: Frank Johnson Obituary, St George in the East, Henry Mayhew, Closure of St Clement’s Hospital, Bills of Mortality, London Population history, May Flack, BFI Mediatheque, George Sewell obituary, Daily Herald, Bow Church, York Hall, Bethnal Green Bomb, London Danger UXB, Sol Frankel, London Parks, More London Peculiars by Peter Ashley, The Booths of the Salvation Army, Jack Odell and Lesney, Thomas and Mary Hughes, Women at QMW, Tower Hamlets museums and galleries, Bethnal Green Library, Marty Feldman, Erno Goldfinger, Nathaniel Woodard, Stephen Lewis, Port of London Authority, Thames River Race, Jack Dash, Manny Shinwell and the Krays, the new Royal London Hospital, Thomas Buxton, St Botolph’s, After 1945, Sugar and Slavery, Alan Keith, John and Julia Scurr, William Blake, John Gregory, David Lean, When Cromwell banned Christmas, Bishopsgate Institute, Syd Cohen King of Lampedusa, Beverley Sisters, William Henry Perkin … the man who invented mauve, Chinatown in Limehouse

2006: Bromley Hall, Geoffrey Barkway, Denis Severs’ House, St Matthew’s Bethnal Green, Joseph Rayner Stephens, National Portrait Gallery, John Benn and family, Donald Crisp, Huguenots, Ted Grant, Gresham Kirby, Birley, Dartmoor Bill, The Lansburys, Battle of Cable Street, George Howell, Limehouse Town Hall, London Buildings at Risk, Book of London Lists, Spooky Museum of Docklands, Stepney Bishops, Tom Allinson, Arthur Newens, Shell Oil, Wapping to Jamestown, Columbia Road market, Shoreditch Tube, Brick Lane Project, Spectacular Vernacular review, The Tower Subway, Fill Fishman 2, Bill Fishman 1, Matt Monro, Terence Stamp, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, John Profumo obituary, Roger Delgado, Will Crooks, Good the murderer, The Tower Bridge Experience, Walter Tull, West Ham Utd 2, West Ham Utd 1, Jack Kid Berg, Bierman, Charles Booth 2, Charles Booth1, The meaning of May Day

2005: Roundup of East End books, Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park, Kossoff brothers, Murder most foul, Mahoney, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Jennie Hawthorne, Bud Flanagan, Seldon, Harold Pinter, John Strype, Stan Rondeau, Kingsley Hall 2, Kingsley Hall 1, Blumenfield, Cockney accent, Jacob Bronowski, Girling book, Herzog, The Honeycombs, Whitechapel Library, London Olympics, The Poplars, Shadows of the workhouse 2, Shadows of the workhouse1, Lesney and Matchbox, Princelet Street, Cambridge Heath history, Pellicis, Solly Kaye, VE Day, Limehouse Nights, Adolph Smith photos, English Heritage in East End, Ronnie Kray, Tony Lambrianou, Flying bombs (V1s), V2 hits Hughes Mansions, Whistler Monet Turner, Speakman Webb and William Morris, Stepney Religious Dissent, Pellicci and the Krays, Brick Lane, Evacuation to Oxfordshire, Cordwainers, Tesco, Celestine Edwards, Lord Young of Dartington, Battleship Potemkin and Stepney Green, Stalin in the East End, UK Holocaust Memorial Day, Beefeaters at Tower of London, Edith Cavell, Jack Warner and Dixon of Dock Green, Lincoln Stanhope Wright, Thames Ironworks, St Peter’s Wapping, Ronnie Kray.

2004: Norman Newell, East End pubs in Wapping and Limehouse, Fortress Wapping, Peter Kuenstler at Oxford House, Sir Martin Frobisher, Charles Bradlaugh, Italian Boy, Capital Disasters by John Withington, Christ Church Spitalfields, End of Limehouse Chinatown, Brilliant Chang, Toshers and Mudlarks on the Thames, Menchergee Merwanjee Bhownaggree, Straighten the Thames, Phoebe Hessel, Krays and Sir Kenneth Jones, The first fuschia in England, Bishop Victor Guazzelli, Arthur Harding & Ikey Bogard, Jean Shepeard, East End Academy, Horatio Bottomley, Underground London, London from the air, End of the Routemaster bus, Millwall Cup Final, The first four minute mile, End of Yiddish theatre, Ted Johns, Cockneys to Canada, Liquid History the Thames through Time, Olive Kielty teacher, Emile Zola in London, Behind the Blue Lamp, London’s River book, Alec Hurley, East London Line, Edward Taylor, Alfred Lynch, London Life in the Post War Years, Blooms Restaurant Whitechapel

2003: Good East End books, Jewish East End of London, The East End I Knew, Silvertown Explosion 1917, East End of London Black Writers, The coiners, London’s home movies, London Compendium by Ed Glinert, Abram Games, Charles Coborn, Tower of London, Sylvia Pankhurst a Crusading Life by Shirley Harrison, Woolf Phillips, Robert Hooke, Bromley by Bow history, Wilton’s Music Hall, George Sims, Watney Market, Silvertown by Melanie McGrath, History of Bow 2, Springheeled Jack, Bernard Delfont, Clouds of Glory A Hoxton Childhood by Bryan Magee book, 19 Princelet Street Museum of Diversity, Bethnal Green Museum of Childhood, CR Ashbee and the Mile End Experiment, London after the Romans, History of London 1, Mail Rail, Murder in 1700s London and after, Murder in medieval London, Claire Rayner, East End theatre versus West End theatre, Women at war in Uniform by Carol Harris, Poplar Memories by John Hector, Francis Bacon and John Edwards, Nicholas Hawksmoor, Images of London Bethnal Green by Gary Haines, Bethnal Green disaster commemoration, London traffic congestion, London Congestion Charge, Reg Varney, John Rennie, William Caslon,

2002: William Bury murderer, Georgian London, East End 1918 flu epidemic, Mile End Old Town, How Bow became Stratford, Three Mills and the River Lea, BW Matz - Dickens scholar, Sidney St siege, John Williams and Ratcliffe Highway Murders, George Lansbury, East End Story by Alf Gardner, Whitechapel Bell Foundry, William Penn Pennsylvania and the Liberty Bell, Prostitution in the Victorian East End of London, Call the Midwife, Victorian Journalists on the East End of London, General Strike in East End of London, Doggett’s coat & badge race, Isle of Dogs 20th Century by Eve Hostettler, Jah Wobble, Peter Prelleur, Bernard Kops, Henry Raine’s house, East End’s Jewish legacy, John Newton and Amazing Grace, South of Commercial Rd, Bishopsgate under threat, Church in Victorian East End of London, Ronnie Scott, East End food, Jack Spot , Child of the Jago, East End Pawnbrokers, Benjamin Gompertz, Eyewitnesses of London Blitz, Bessarabians in East End, London from the air, Crime in World War II London, William Larkins etcher, Eugenius Birch and Dollond & Aitchison, Columbia Road and the Jesus Hospital Estate

2001: Emmanuel Swedenborg in Wapping, Vidal Sassoon in London, London’s Riverscape Lost and Found, Birth of the Boundary Estate and the Jago, Walks through history: exploring the East End by Rosemary Taylor, Lea Valley history, Meotra: Mile End Old Town Residents Assocation book review, What lies beneath the East End of London, What the Victorians did, GLC the Inside Story by Wes Whitehouse, Marie Lloyd, Limehouse Days by Daniel Farson, London Dockers slang book, King Cole and the first Aussie cricketers, Les Sealey obituary, Oi jimmy knacker, Queen Mother obituary, Dreadful Judgement, Malatesta and the anarchists, The white chapel to Whitechapel, Abraham Beame from East End to New York, John Dollond in Spitalfields, Mary Wollstonecraft, Evil May day, Jack Sheppard ace prison breaker, 37 Spital Square, Ships of Hope and deported kids, David Bomberg of the Whitechapel Boys, Monty Norman and the James Bond theme tune, Levitas and Battle of Cable St, St Dunstans church Stepney, Jack Warner, International Women’s Day, Billy Ocean, This Bright Field, East End at War Ragged School talk, Isle of Dogs 1066 to 1918, Literary london: Andrew Davies, Isle of Dogs 1, Revising Pevsner, London Blue Plaques

2000: A Dickensian Christmas, Francis Frith on the East End, London the Biography by Peter Ackroyd, John Wilkes and liberty, Jack Broughton prize fighter, Four Centuries of London Life by Alan Palmer, George Smith London criminal, Changing face of Poplar, The Annals of London, Underground London, Reggie Kray, Death of Kings, Petticoat Lane, Terry Spinks, Granville Sharp and slavery, Elizabeth Garrett, Millwall FC, The killing of Leon Beron, Cholera in Victorian London, London sugar bakers, East End Brewers, George Peabody, Samuel Dougal, Oxford House, Charlie Brown’s Pub, Henry St John Bolingbroke, The new Billingsgate Market, Toc H and Tubby Clayton, Charlie Kray, London Buskers and street performers, William Cubitt, HennyYoungman, Pirates and River Police, Lusty/Lloyd Loom, St Katharine dock, Gilda O’Neill

1999: Pie and mash, Two Gun-Cohen Chinese general, London East End boxers, William Seaman East End killer, George Orwell, Holman Hunt, Samuel Pepys & Great Fire of London, Childhood on Isle of Dogs, Hugh Platt the pickle man, Crab the mad hatter, Plague and the River Thames, Helen Shapiro, Wat Tyler and Peasants Revolt, Henry Wainwright, Blind Beggar, Shakespeare & Ben Jonson, Germans in East End of London, Isaac Rosenberg, Docklands in conflict, Peter Grant & Led Zeppelin, Old Stepney, Cockney campaign, Dissolution of East End monasteries, Royal Mint, London street names, Brick Lane Bomb, The London East End photographers, Lionel Bart, Bazalgette, Lost rivers of London, London at the Movies, Bedlam Hospital Bishopsgate, London’s railways and stations, London East End Statues, Norman Hudis and the Carry On team, Lew Grade obituary, London Hospital

1998: Marzipan Eliza Marchpane and the East End of London, Bow bridge(s), Arthur Lovell, Fairfield Road in Bow, Lesney & Matchbox Cars, Geoff Hamilton, Ian Mikardo, Toshers & Mudlarks, Seamen’s missions, Lost London village of Ratcliffe, The London Bodysnatchers, Steven Berkoff, Mark Gertler, Geffrye museum, SS Robin, Cockneys built America, Johnny Speight & Alf Garnett, Fifty years of the NHS, Wilkie Collins, Zeppelin raids on London, Wolf Mankewitz, Matthew Arnold, Tichborne claimant, Joseph Conrad, Samuel Gompers in London, Docklands buildings by Jim Page Roberts, Fermin Rocker, Barber Beaumont & People’s Palace, Israel Zangwill, Suffragettes in the East End, Jackie Cornwell, Farthing bundles, Gandhi in London, Rudolf Rocker, East End then and now

1997: A Dickensian Christmas in the East End, Daniel Farson & the Waterman’s Arms, John Wesley, Wyndham Deedes, Fu Manchu in the East End, Thames Ironworks & West Ham Utd, London theatres and cinemas, London’s Maori chief, David Lean in Wapping, Peter Green & Fleetwood Mac, Tower Hill beach, Josef Stalin in the East End of London, Jeremy Bentham, East Enders go hopping, Gordon Riots, Captain James Cook in Wapping, Meningitis in the East End, Jim Page Roberts, George Hilsdon, Thomas Briggs and Franz Muller, Whitechapel Foundry and Liberty Bell, East End furniture makers, Museum of London millennium exhibition, HG Wells, Thomas Cromwell, Sir Walter Raleigh, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, William Beveridge and Clement Attlee, Small Faces, Memories of Childhood on Isle of Dogs, The London Nobody Knows, Terence Donovan, Bernard Bresslaw, Miriam Moses Jewish immigrants and The Brady Centre, Fred Charrington, Basil Henriques, Joseph Merceron and bear baiting, Wapping Pierhead, Blue Plaques in the East End of London, Abe Saperstein & The Harlem Globetrotters, Thomas Frye and Bow Pottery, Pictorial History of Victoria Park, Angela Burdett Coutts & Columbia Market, Tower Hamlets connection

1996: The death of Charlie Kray, London East End cinemas, London Workhouses, Hannah Billig, The death of Reggie Kray