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My East End

Author : Gilda O'Neill
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141929383
Total Pages : 529 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)

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Download or read book My East End written by Gilda O'Neill and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2000-09-28 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Every page is a delight. Every chapter made vivid by a writer who has poured heart and soul into her book' Val Hennessy, Daily Mail The East End of London - cockneys, criminals, street markets, pub singalongs, dog racing, jellied eels . . . It is a place at once appealing and unruly, comforting and incomprehensible. Gilda O'Neill, an East Ender herself, shows there is more to this fascinating area than a collection of clichéd images. Using oral history and more traditional sources, she builds up a powerful image of this community - bringing to us, with wit and honesty, the real story of London's East End WHAT READERS ARE SAYING ABOUT MY EAST END: 'A true and detailed account of a community that has been sadly lost' Amazon Reader Review 'Excellent reading for anyone interested in the early life of London, one can't help being mesmerised by the hardships they endured!' Amazon Reader Review 'An extremely interesting and well-researched book' Amazon Reader Review

East End Tales

Author : Gilda O'Neill
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781405622325
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book East End Tales written by Gilda O'Neill and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gilda O'Neill has gathered together her memories and personal recollections of growing up in the East End of London. It was a timeof unbelievable hardship and devastating change; yet also of great pride, kindness, courage, resilience and humour.

Six Ensemble Plays for Young Actors

Author : Fin Kennedy
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1408149931
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book Six Ensemble Plays for Young Actors written by Fin Kennedy and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-04-25 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Six Ensemble Plays for Young Actors is an anthology of work written for actors aged 11-25. Ideal for youth theatre groups, schools and amateur dramatic companies, it contains a diverse selection of plays suited to large casts and ensemble performance. Varying in style and subject matter, the plays offer performers, directors and designers a range of exciting challenges: from recreating the mythological world of The Odyssey to a dramatisation of two hundred years of slavery that will take the audience on a journey from eighteenth century Africa to 1990s London in Sweetpeter. Contemporary urban living is confronted in plays ranging from the starkly realistic to the playful, lyrical and surrealistic. From the innocent and imaginative world of a school playground to issues of racism, peer pressure, crime and communication in a mobile phone obsessed culture, this is a wide-ranging anthology that will enrich the repertoire of youth theatre groups and the curriculum in schools. The volume is introduced by Paul Roseby, artistic director of the National Youth Theatre.

Sisters of the East End

Author : Helen Batten
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 144817564X
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (481 download)

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Download or read book Sisters of the East End written by Helen Batten and published by Random House. This book was released on 2013-09-26 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heart-warming tales of nursing and midwifery from the Sisters who worked with Jennifer Worth. ‘A second’s silence and then an almighty scream. It was the most moving thing I had ever seen ... A baby, a real live baby, another human life had entered the world. It didn’t seem possible and yet I had witnessed it with my very own eyes.’ Born into a happy working-class North London family in the mid-twentieth century, Katie is determined to ‘do something’ with her life. Working in the impoverished East End in the 1950s, she meets the Sisters of St John the Divine – a community of nuns dedicated to nursing and midwifery. The Sisters have been present at births, cared for the sick and laid out the dead of the East Enders for a hundred years, and Katie soon joins them to start her journey to becoming Sister Catherine Mary. As a nurse and midwife, Katie learns to deal with everything from strokes to breech births. Tragedy is never far away, but there are also moments of pure joy as lives are saved and the Poplar residents rally round. As a young novice Katie rallies against the vow of obedience, yet over the years learns much about the nature of dedication and love. Full of desperate hardship, humour and compassion, Katie’s story brings to life the unique world of these nursing Sisters in London’s East End. Sister Catherine Mary’s story was written by Helen Batten after in-depth interviews with today’s Sisters of the Community of St John the Divine. The Community of St John the Divine was founded in 1848 in a bid to make nursing a respectable profession. Early Sisters worked in the Crimea with Florence Nightingale and were instrumental in developing recognised training and qualifications for nurses and midwives. In the early 20th century they were working in areas such as Poplar and Deptford becoming a treasured part of the community. Today the Sisterhood is based in Birmingham and their website is www.csjd.org.uk. Helen Batten studied history at Cambridge and then journalism at Cardiff University. She went on to become a producer and director at the BBC and now works as a writer and a psychotherapist. She lives in West London with her three daughters.

London Yiddishtown

Author : Katie Brown
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
ISBN 13 : 0814348491
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (143 download)

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Download or read book London Yiddishtown written by Katie Brown and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2021-11-09 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lively and engaging new view of London’s Jewish East End through translated stories of its Yiddish writers. In London Yiddishtown: East End Jewish Life in Yiddish Sketch and Story, 1930–1950, Vivi Lachs presents a selection of previously un-translated short stories and sketches by Katie Brown, A. M. Kaizer, and I. A. Lisky, for the general reader and academic alike. These intriguing and entertaining tales build a picture of a lively East-End community of the 30s and 40s struggling with political, religious, and community concerns. Lachs includes a new history of the Yiddish literary milieu and biographies of the writers, with information gleaned from articles, reviews, and obituaries published in London's Yiddish daily newspapers and periodicals. Lisky's impassioned stories concern the East End's clashing ideologies of communism, Zionism, fascism, and Jewish class difference. He shows anti-fascist activism, political debate in a kosher café, East-End extras on a film set, and a hunger march by the unemployed. Kaizer's witty and satirical tales explore philanthropy, upward mobility, synagogue politics, and competition between Zionist organizations. They expose the character and foibles of the community and make fun of foolish and hypocritical behavior. Brown's often hilarious sketches address episodes of daily life, which highlight family shenanigans and generational misunderstandings, and point out how the different attachments to Jewish identity of the immigrant generation and their children created unresolvable fractures. Each section begins with a biography of the writer, before launching into the translated stories with contextual notes. London Yiddishtown offers a significant addition to the literature about London, about the East End, about Jewish history, and about Yiddish. The East End has parallels with New York's Lower East Side, yet London's comparatively small enclave, and the particular experience of London in the 1930s and the bombing of the East End during the Blitz make this history unique. It is a captivating read that will entice literary and history buffs of all backgrounds. A Yiddish Book Center Translation.

The East End in Colour 1980-1990

Author : Tim Brown
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781910566534
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (665 download)

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Download or read book The East End in Colour 1980-1990 written by Tim Brown and published by . This book was released on 2019-05-02 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book by a new photographer continues from 1980 as the regeneration of the East End accelerates to an unprecedented degree. Tim Brown, a driver on London Underground's Central Line, spent his spare time photographing the city's financial centre and transport hubs, including the Docklands area just before the developers seized control of this vast industrial wasteland. His subtle, understated (and never-before-seen) colour images are a nostalgic record of a corner of the capital that has changed almost beyond recognition.

The East End in Colour 1960-1980

Author : Chris Dorley-Brown
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781910566312
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (663 download)

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Download or read book The East End in Colour 1960-1980 written by Chris Dorley-Brown and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Previously unpublished colour photographs of London's famous East End at a time before great social change.

Tales of Mean Streets

Author : Arthur Morrison
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3752416734
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (524 download)

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Download or read book Tales of Mean Streets written by Arthur Morrison and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-08-05 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: Tales of Mean Streets by Arthur Morrison

The Little History of the East End

Author : Dee Gordon
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750995785
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (59 download)

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Download or read book The Little History of the East End written by Dee Gordon and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2020-10-21 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The modern history of London's East End has been well-documented – but what of its ancient roots? From embryonic beginnings in the Stone Age, through Roman rule and civil wars, all the way to its jam-packed twentieth-century timeline, the East End has always been a place of innovation, diversity and change. Written by an East Ender with a love of her roots, The Little History of the East End is an engaging look at the area's history through the people that made it, one that will enthral and surprise both residents and visitors alike.

London's East End

Author : Jane Cox
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN 13 : 9781841881010
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book London's East End written by Jane Cox and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 2000 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bounded on either side by the river Lea and the City walls, London's East End has witnessed a wide variety of people and ways of life. Bountiful photos, drawings, maps, engravings, and an authoritative text weave a rich historical tapestry of the riversides where pirates once walked; the monasteries and slums east of the tower; and Shoreditch, where audiences cheered Shakespeare's plays. Over five centuries worth of anecdotes, folk tales, diary excerpts, court cases, newspapers, and letters capture this colorful neighborhood.

Tales from the Two Puddings

Author : Eddie Johnson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780957209008
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Tales from the Two Puddings written by Eddie Johnson and published by . This book was released on 2012-07-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1962, exactly fifty years before the Olympic Games rolled into Stratford, East London, the Johnson family took over the Two Puddings, the most notorious pub in the area. Due to a combination of its cream-tiled walls and the volume of blood spilt, it was also known locally as the Butcher s Shop . Within a few short years, it had become one of London s busiest and most fashionable pubs, its hugely popular music nights acting as a magnet for a large and colourful cast of disparate characters who would regularly descend upon the premises, including renowned actors, writers, singers, musicians, champion boxers, infamous gangsters, television personalities, and World Cup-winning footballers. By the time the Puddings closed its doors for the last time, nearly four decades later, landlord Eddie Johnson was the longest serving licensee in London. Tales from the Two Puddings is a poignant, at times hilarious, look back upon a lost world of East End eccentrics, local villainy, vindictive policemen, punch ups, and practical jokes, all now lying buried beneath the concrete blocks and sterile shopping centres of the new Stratford.

Arthur Morrison and the East End

Author : Eliza Cubitt
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429582080
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (295 download)

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Download or read book Arthur Morrison and the East End written by Eliza Cubitt and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-02-21 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This, the first critical biography of Arthur Morrison (1863-1945), presents his East End writing as the counter-myth to the cultural production of the East End in late-Victorian realism. Morrison’s works, particularly Tales of Mean Streets (1894) and A Child of the Jago (1896), are often discussed as epitomes of slum fictions of the 1890s as well as prime examples of nineteenth-century realism, but their complex contemporary reception reveals the intricate paradoxes involved in representing the turn-of-the-century city. Arthur Morrison and the East End examines how an understanding of the East End in the Victorian cultural imagination operates in Morrison’s own writing. Engaging with the contemporary vogue for slum fiction, Morrison redressed accounts written by outsiders, positioning himself as uniquely knowledgeable about a place considered unknowable. His work provides a vigorous challenge to the fictionalised East End created by his predecessors, whilst also paying homage to Charles Dickens, George Gissing, Walter Besant and Guy de Maupassant. Examining the London sites which Morrison lived in and wrote about, this book is an excursion not into the Victorian East End, but into the fictions constructed around it.

The End of the West and Other Cautionary Tales

Author : Sean Meighoo
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231541406
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book The End of the West and Other Cautionary Tales written by Sean Meighoo and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2016-04-19 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most historical accounts of "the West" take it for granted that the guiding principles of the Western tradition—reason, progress, and freedom—have been passed down directly from ancient Greece to modern Europe, evolving in isolation from all non-Western cultures. Today, many political analysts and cultural critics maintain that the Western tradition is fast approaching its end, for better or worse, as it becomes more and more integrated with non-Western cultures in an increasingly globalized world. But what if we are witnessing something else entirely—not the "end" of the West but rather another historical mutation of the idea of the West itself? This groundbreaking work shows that whether the West is hailed as the source of all historical progress or scorned as the root of all cultural imperialism, it remains a deeply problematic concept that is intrinsically connected to an ethnocentric view of the world. In a critical reading of the continental philosophers Husserl, Heidegger, Levinas, and Derrida as well as the postcolonial thinkers Said, Mohanty, Bhabha, and Trinh, Sean Meighoo strikes at the intellectual foundations of Western exceptionalism until its ideological supports show through. Deconstructing the concept of the West in his provocative interpretations of Martin Bernal's controversial publication Black Athena and the Beatles' second film Help!, Meighoo poses a formidable question to philosophers, writers, political analysts, and cultural critics alike: Can we mount an effective critique of Western ethnocentrism without reinforcing the very idea of the West?

The Stepney Doorstep Society

Author : Kate Thompson
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0718189876
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (181 download)

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Download or read book The Stepney Doorstep Society written by Kate Thompson and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2018-08-23 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The unsung and remarkable stories of the women who held London's East End together during not one, but two world wars. 'Inspiring tales of courage in the face of hardship' Mail on Sunday 'Inspiring . . . Takes you back to a time of community and helping one another' 5***** Reader Review 'It made me laugh and gasp in equal measure' 5***** Reader Review ______ Meet Minksy, Gladys, Beatty, Joan and Girl Walker . . . While the men were at war, these women ruled the streets of the East End. Struggling against poverty to survive, and fighting for their community in our country's darkest hours. But there was also joy to be found. Across the East End the streets were alive - you need only walk a few steps for a smile from a neighbour or a strong cup of tea. From taking over the London Underground, standing up to the Kray twins and crawling out of bombsites, The Stepney Doorstep Society tells the vivid and moving stories of the matriarchs who remain the backbone of the East End to this day. ______ 'Kate Thompson's study of five working-class women who lived through the blitz shows how informal collectives can provide lasting support and inspiration . . . [a] fascinating account' Guardian 'An important glimpse into a vanishing world' Sunday Express 'One of the best books I have read in recent years' 5***** Reader Review 'Crammed full of fascinating stories' BBC 2 Steve Wright 'Fascinating . . . It was fascinating to hear how these women kept going' 5***** Reader Review 'Astonishing' Radio 5 Live

East London Photo Stories

Author : Rachel Segal Hamilton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781910566428
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (664 download)

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Download or read book East London Photo Stories written by Rachel Segal Hamilton and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To mark their fifth anniversary Hoxton Mini Press are publishing a compilation book that will feature photography from the bestselling book series 'East London Photo Stories.' Appearing alongside new text and a map of East London showing where the projects were taken, each chapter of selected images captures a unique aspect of the area's colourful character: from Hackney's eccentric inhabitants and tranquil waterways to famous flower markets, 1980s Dalston and wild nightlife in Shoreditch. Featuring work by Dougie Wallace, Zed Nelson, Jenny Lewis, David Campany & Polly Braden, David George and many more.

Spitalfields Life

Author : Gentle Author
Publisher : Hodder & Stoughton
ISBN 13 : 9781444703955
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book Spitalfields Life written by Gentle Author and published by Hodder & Stoughton. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I am going to write every single day and tell you about my life here in Spitalfields at the heart of London... Drawing comparisons with Pepys, Mayhew and Dickens, the gentle author of Spitalfields Life has gained an extraordinary following in recent years, by writing hundreds of lively pen portraits of the infinite variety of people who live and work in the East End of London.

Telephone Tales

Author : Gianni Rodari
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781592702848
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (28 download)

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Download or read book Telephone Tales written by Gianni Rodari and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-08 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reminiscent of Scheherazade and One Thousand and One Nights, Gianni Rodari's Telephone Tales is many stories within a story. Every night, a traveling father must finish a bedtime story in the time that a single coin will buy. One night, it's a carousel that adults cannot comprehend, but whose operator must be some sort of magician, the next, it's a land filled with butter men who melt in the sunshine Awarded the Hans Christian Anderson Award in 1970, Gianni Rodari is widely considered to be Italy's most important children's author of the 20th century. Newly re-illustrated by Italian artist Valerio Vidali (The Forest), Telephone Tales entertains, while questioning and imagining other worlds.