The Reading Room at Tower Hamlets Local History Library & Archives was officially reopened on the 21st September by the Mayor of Tower Hamlets, following extensive restoration work. The Reading Room is where the
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Category: History
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You’re invited… to the Radical Housing Exhibition Launch on the 7th July
Tower Hamlets Local History Library and Archives invites you to the launch of their exhibition on Radical Housing in Tower Hamlets. The fight for decent and affordable housing has a long history in the East
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A Pankhurst Memorial in the Roman?
The Roman Road Trust is campaigning to have Sylvia Pankhurst, pictured addressing a crowd outside the headquarters of the East London Federation of Suffragettes in Old Ford Road, honoured and celebrated with a statue on or
Read moreTed Lewis – Local Hero
Photo above – Ted Lewis taken in April 2017. Ted is the best of the East End – a boxer, a Billingsgate porter, a union rep, a photographer, a storyteller and a great community person
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Tom Ridge – Heritage Campaigner
We would have lost a lot more of the diminishing architectural heritage of the East End if it wasn’t for the tireless campaigning of Tom Ridge. Tom Ridge is the man behind current attempts to
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