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Dan Cruickshank writes on 'old Shoreditch slums' in fight for Arnold Circus

Seasoned campaigner Dan Cruickshank turns up at Arnold Circus in 2020 to stop council bulldozers.

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Dan Cruickshank takes time off from his heritage campaigns to write a book on the evolution of the East End's pioneering Boundary Estate emerging out of the notorious old Nichol slums.
Congratulations to Dot Smyth on your 100th birthday

Stepney Green woman celebrates 100th birthday

Mike Brooke

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Myer Wand was killed in the bombing. He was 31. Picture: MPS

East Area police chief marks Blitz 80th anniversary with tribute to...

Jon King

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Two British sailors and their girlfriends wading in the fountains in Trafalgar Square on VE Day, 8 M

VE Day 75: Call to toast the nation’s heroes 75 years after Victory in...

Jon King

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Ian Wilson (inset) has traced his ancestors to a tombstone in the middle of a path in St Margaret's

Search for ancestors leads family historian up Barking churchyard path

Jon King

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RoyShaw being congratulated after his first round victory over Donny 'The Bull' Adams in 1975. Pic:

Gangster Roy Shaw features in new book aimed at ‘setting the record...

Jon King

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Women and children celebrating the end of the First World War at the Heath Street Peace Tea Party, c

Armistice 100: How the day so many had been longing for was reported on...

Jon King

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Hannah Mawdsley. Pic: Tim Stubbings/AHRC

Armistice 100: ‘Death and misery’ at home as the war guns fall silent

Jon King

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Tyne Cot Commonwealth War Graves Cemetery, Zonnebeke, Belgium. When: 24 Sep 2013

Armistice 100: Grave hunters search for the thousands of First World War...

Jon King

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Making banners for a women's Social and Political (WSPU) rally in 1910. Picture: LSE Library

Suffragette 100: Join thousands of ladies in a celebratory procession...

Ellena Cruse

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Dora Challingsworth, 79, was a shop steward during the 1984 Ford workers strike. Picture: Ken Mears

‘I’m glad I did it’: Ford Dagenham workers recall strikes

Alex Shaw

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Female sewing machinists at the Ford plant in Dagenham vote to return to work, ending their dispute.

Suffragettes 100: Dagenham sewing machinists strike 50 years ago wasn’t...

Mike Brooke

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Prominent Suffragette Sylvia Pankhurst lived in Woodford Green for 30 years. Picture: Eastside Commu

Suffragettes100: Sylvia Pankhurst scandalised the neighbours

Lindsay Jones

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Police officers at the Barking Abbey service (pictures: Steve Poston)

First World War: Police rally to remember officers from across east...

Sophie Morton

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Ernie Tribe's Uncle John Arthur Tribe died in World War 1 at the age of 20. He has a collection of i

Remembering one of the First World War’s young fatalities

Sophie Morton

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