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The Long Good Friday –  How The Great British Gangster Film Got Its Name

The Long Good Friday – How The Great British Gangster Film Got Its Name

The struggle between a freelance gangster and idealists in 1980s London ...
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Buy Prints British Kids in The 1980s – Brilliant Photographs of Carefree Days

British Kids in The 1980s – Brilliant Photographs of Carefree Days

Dave Sinclair's fantastic photographs of children playing on the streets in 1980s Britain ...
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The Battle of Cable Street: When 20,000 Antifascist Workers Fought Back Against the Police and Oswald Mosley’s British Union of Fascists in 1936

The Battle of Cable Street: When 20,000 Antifascist Workers Fought Back Against the Police and Oswald Mosley’s British Union of Fascists in 1936

On Sunday 4 October 1936 a revolutionary spirit powered protesters in their historic clash with fascists in London's East End ...
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Buy Prints Jack London’s Extraordinary Photos of London’s East End in 1902

Jack London’s Extraordinary Photos of London’s East End in 1902

In a book that became to be known as 'The People of the Abyss' London described the time when he lived in the Whitechapel district sleeping in workhouses, so-called doss-houses and even on the streets. ...
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Street Life: Our Exclusive Interview with Legendary Photographer Brian Anderson

Street Life: Our Exclusive Interview with Legendary Photographer Brian Anderson

Anderson is one of the most talented photographers to come out of Scotland. ...
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Buy Prints London’s East End in the 1960s by Steve Lewis

London’s East End in the 1960s by Steve Lewis

Steve Lewis's evocative photographs of London in the 1960s are now available as fine art ...
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Sensational Kodachrome Photos of London’s East End by David Granick

Sensational Kodachrome Photos of London’s East End by David Granick

These photographs taken by David Granick between the late 1950s and 1980s might be the best images of London's East End we've seen. ...
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Shabby but not Chic – Photos of Wapping and Whitechapel in 1973

Shabby but not Chic – Photos of Wapping and Whitechapel in 1973

Pictures of a lost part of East London - gone forever. ...
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Snapshots of a Shabby and Grimy London in 1978

Snapshots of a Shabby and Grimy London in 1978

  In 1978 a Dutch couple Ed Sijmons and his partner LouiseĀ visited London. Pointing their ...
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‘A Faded Suburb with a Jaunty Air’ – Photos of Dalston 1979-1984

‘A Faded Suburb with a Jaunty Air’ – Photos of Dalston 1979-1984

In March 1972, a journalist called Geoffrey Wansell wrote in the Times about Dalston. The ...
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An Evening at El Morocco with the Kray Twins and Barbara Windsor

An Evening at El Morocco with the Kray Twins and Barbara Windsor

In 1964 a man called Hew McGowan, a wealthy baronet's son, bought a nightclub in ...
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London’s Old Chinatown in Limehouse and the ‘Yellow Peril’

London’s Old Chinatown in Limehouse and the ‘Yellow Peril’

There had been a small and relatively law-abiding Chinese community based around Limehouse from around ...
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