Get Free Shipping on orders over $89
East End Chronicles - Ed Glinert

East End Chronicles

By: Ed Glinert

Paperback | 31 July 2006 | Edition Number 1

At a Glance

Paperback


RRP $32.99

$30.99

or 4 interest-free payments of $7.75 with

 or 

Ships in 3 to 5 business days

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.

More in British & Irish History

Norse-Gaelic Paganism : Viking and Irish Myth and Magic - Annie Cúglas Humphrey
Say Nothing : True Story Of Murder and Memory In Northern Ireland - Patrick Radden Keefe
Revenge : Meghan, Harry and the war between the Windsors - Tom Bower
Elizabeth II : In Private. In Public. The Inside Story. - Robert Hardman
Unruly : A History of England's Kings and Queens - David Mitchell

RRP $26.99

$21.99

19%
OFF
British Gardens - Monty Don

RRP $85.00

$59.99

29%
OFF
Normal Women : 900 Years Of Making History - Philippa Gregory

RRP $29.99

$24.75

17%
OFF
Who Dares Wins : Britain, 1979-1982 - Dominic Sandbrook

RRP $26.99

$22.99

15%
OFF
The Siege : The Remarkable Story of the Greatest SAS Hostage Drama - Ben Macintyre
The Journals of Captain Cook : Penguin Classics - James Cook

RRP $27.99

$23.75

15%
OFF
A New History of the Irish in Australia - Dianne Hall

RRP $39.99

$33.75

16%
OFF