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A-C

 

Aldgate

• Whitechapel (1889)
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Besant, Annie

• Annie Besant and the match-girls' strike of 1888 (1893?)
• The Matchgirls' Strike of 1888 : news reports (1888)
• White Slavery in London (1888)

 

Bethnal Green

• Bethnal Green (1924)
• The Brutality of night-constables and watchmen... (1825)
• Church of St. Bartholomew the Less, Bethnal Green (1844)
• Dwellings of the poor in Bethnal Green (1863)
• Homes in the east of London : a fresh visit to Bethnal Green (1871)
• In Bethnal Green (1911)
• More revelations of Bethnal Green (1863)
• Ragged London in 1861 (1861)
• Riots and outrages in Bethnal Green (1826)
• To check the survival of the unfit (1896)

 

Bethnal Green Museum

• Sight-seeing in Bethnal Green (1872)

 

Black people

• The black and Asian presence in the Tower Hamlets : a miscellany (1707-1823)
• Jack alive in London (1851-56)
• Marriages at Stepney Church (1839)

 

Blackwall

• An account of the hamlet of Poplar (1795)

 

Blackwall Pier

• East and West London (1875)
• On Blackwall Pier (1888)

 

Boards of Guardians

• Official Guide to the Metropolitan Borough of Poplar (1927)

 

Borough of Poplar See Poplar (Metropolitan Borough of)

 

Borough of Stepney See Stepney (Metropolitan Borough of)

 

Bow

• Official Guide to the Metropolitan Borough of Poplar (1927)
• Stratford Bow (1816)
• The village of Bow (1931)

 

Bowles, John

• Ratcliff (1935)

 

Brick Lane

• In Alien-Land (1911)

 

Bromley-by-Bow See Bromley Saint Leonard

 

Bromley Saint Leonard

• Bromley Saint Leonard (1934)
• Bromley Saint Leonard : the Upper Manor (1934)
• Bromley Saint Leonard : the Village (1934)
• Bromley Saint Leonard : Tudor House, Lower Manor (1934)
• Bromley Saint Leonard's (1816)
• A friend in my retreat (1978)
• Official Guide to the Metropolitan Borough of Poplar (1927)

 

Brothels See Prostitution

 

Bryant & May See Match making

 

Burglaries See Crime

 

Cemeteries

• The Camden-Town Railway (1851)

 

Charities

• Official Guide to the Metropolitan Borough of Poplar (1927)

 

Charlie Brown of Limehouse

• Meet Charles II of Limehouse - Taken from an almanac and tide table issued from The Blue Posts by Charlie Brown Jnr. in 1936

 

Chinese

• The black and Asian presence in the Tower Hamlets : a miscellany (1707-1823)
• A Curious Burial (1890)
• In Limehouse and the Isle of Dogs (1911)
• An opium smoke in Tiger Bay (1883)
• Poplar - apart from politics (1924)

 

Cholera

• The 1832 cholera epidemic in East London (1979)
• "And ye shall walk in silk attire" (1881)

 

Christianity

• East London : sketches of Christian work and workers

 

Churches

See also names of specific churches

• East London : sketches of Christian work and workers

 

Civil War See English Civl War

 

Coal-heavers

• The curiosities of drunkenness (1881)
• Shadwell (1935)

 

Coal-whippers See Coal-heavers

 

Colet, Sir Henry

• St. Dunstan's, Stepney (1935)

 

Commercial Road

• The Camden-Town Railway (1851)
• Commercial Road (1932)

 

Crime

• Breaking and entering : a miscellany (1729-1838)
• The Brutality of night-constables and watchmen... (1825)
• Ratcliffe-Highway (1857)
• Riots and outrages in Bethnal Green (1826)

 

Culpeper, Nicholas

• Spitalfields. Pt. 3 (1932)

 

D-I

 

Danish Church

• Well Close (1934)

 

Dock-workers

• The curiosities of drunkenness (1881)
• Shadwell (1935)

 

Docks

• An account of the hamlet of Poplar (1795)
• East and West London (1875)
• Jack alive in London (1851-56)
• The London Docks (1852)
• Monthly Commercial Report (1806)
• Official Guide to the Metropolitan Borough of Poplar (1927)
• St. Katharine's and East Smithfield (1933)
• St. George's-in-the-East (1933)

 

East India Company

• An account of the hamlet of Poplar (1795)
• The black and Asian presence in the Tower Hamlets : a miscellany (1707-1823)
• The church of St. Matthias, Poplar (1932)
• Jack alive in London (1851-56)
• Monthly Commercial Report (1806)
• Poplar in the past (1933)

 

East Smithfield

• St. Katharine's and East Smithfield (1933)

 

Electricity supply

• Official Guide to the Metropolitan Borough of Poplar (1927)

 

Emigration

• East and West London (1875)

 

English Civil War

• Whitechapel Mount and the London Hospital (1999)

 

Germans

• At a sugar baking (1876)
• Down East (1872)
• Murder on the North London Railway (1864)

 

Glass-making

• Ratcliff (1935)

 

Hackney

• The Camden-Town Railway (1851)

 

Health

• The 1832 cholera epidemic in East London (1979)
• Bethnal-green Fever Haunts Again (1866)
• Official Guide to the Metropolitan Borough of Poplar (1927)
• A visit to Wapping "island" (1871)

 

Holy Trinity Church, Bethnal Green

• To check the survival of the unfit (1896)

 

Homerton

• The Camden-Town Railway (1851)

 

Homosexuality

• Crimes of passion : a miscellany (1728-1780)

 

Houndsditch

• Whitechapel and Houndsditch - Rag Fair (1852)

 

Housing estates

• Official Guide to the Metropolitan Borough of Poplar (1927)
• Wapping Housing Estate (1932)

 

Huguenots

• Spitalfields. Pt. 2 (1931)
• Spitalfields. Pt. 3 (1932)
• Spitalfields. Pt. 4 (1932)

 

Industry

See also names of specific industries

• East London Industries (1876)

 

Irish

• Ragged London in 1861 : The back of Whitechapel (1861)
• Ragged London in 1861 : Behind Shoreditch (1861)
• Round St. George in the East (1911)
• Shadwell (1935)

 

Isle of Dogs

• An account of the hamlet of Poplar (1795)
• In Limehouse and the Isle of Dogs (1911)
• Official Guide to the Metropolitan Borough of Poplar (1927)
• Poplar in the past (1933)

 

Ivie, Lady Theodosia

• Shadwell (1932)

 

J-M

 

Jack the Ripper

• An autumn evening in Whitechapel (188)

 

Jago See Old Nichol

 

Jamrach's

• East and West London (1875)
• My struggle with a tiger (1879)
• Round St. George in the East (1911)

 

Jay, Reverend Osborne

• To check the survival of the unfit (1896)

 

Jews

• The "Continental Sunday" in London : sketches from the life in Petticoat Lane (1889)
• East London. Chapter I : Sunday in East London (1896)
• East London. Chapter II : Whitechapel (1896)
• In Alien-Land (1911)
• Jack alive in London (1851-56)
• The Jews in Tower Hamlets : a miscellany (1744-1840)
• Poplar - apart from politics (1924)
• Rag Fair (1859)
• Rag Fair, Petticoat-lane : the debatable lands in London (1858)
• Ragged London in 1861 (1861)
• Round St. George in the East (1911)
• St. Katharine's and East Smithfield (1933)
• Sunday morning in Petticoat-lane (1877)
• Tower Hamlets 1888 (1979)
• Whitechapel (1889)

 

Jute manufacture

• East London Industries. Ch. 1 : The Jute Factory, Stratford-le-Bow (1876)

 

King Edward VII Memorial Park

• Shadwell (1932)

 

Kingsley Hall

• A friend in my retreat (1978)

 

Lascars

• The black and Asian presence in the Tower Hamlets : a miscellany (1707-1823)
• Jack alive in London (1851-56)

 

Lester, Doris and Muriel

• A friend in my retreat (1978)

 

Liberties of the Tower

• Well Close. Pt.1 (1934)

• Well Close. Pt.2 (1934)

Libraries

• Official Guide to the Metropolitan Borough of Poplar (1927)

 

Limehouse

• In Limehouse and the Isle of Dogs (1911)
• Limehouse (1933)

 

Markets

• The "Continental Sunday" in London : sketches from the life in Petticoat Lane (1889)
• In Bethnal Green (1911)
• Rag Fair (1859)
• Rag Fair, Petticoat-lane : the debatable lands in London (1858)
• Sunday morning in Petticoat-lane (1877)
• Whitechapel Road on a Saturday night (1862)

 

Marriage

• Marriages at Stepney Church (1839)

 

Match making

• Annie Besant and the match-girls' strike of 1888 (1893?)
• East London Industries. Ch. 6 : The Manufacture of Matches (1876)
• The Matchgirls' Strike of 1888 : news reports (1888)
• White Slavery in London (1888)

 

Matchgirls' Strike of 1888 See Match making

 

Mathematical Society, See Spitalfields

 

Metropolitan Borough of Poplar See Poplar (Metropolitan Borough of)

 

Metropolitan Borough of Stepney See Stepney (Metropolitan Borough of)

 

Mile End Old Town

• Memories of Mile End (1979)
• Mile End (1933)

 

Millwall

• In Limehouse and the Isle of Dogs (1911)

 

Missions

• East London : sketches of Christian work and workers

 

Motherhood (Includes illegitimacy)

• Crimes of passion : a miscellany (1728-1780)

 

Murder

• Murder on the North London Railway (1864)

 

N-Q

 

Neale, Thomas

• Shadwell (1932)

 

Norton Folgate

• An East End vicar and his work (ca. 1895)
• Spitalfields. Pt. 1 (1931)

 

Old Artillery Ground

• An East End vicar and his work (ca. 1895)
• Spitalfields. Pt. 1 (1931)

 

Old Ford

• Old Ford (1933)
• Stratford Bow (1816)

 

Old Nichol

• Dwellings of the poor in Bethnal Green (1863)
• Homes in the east of London : a fresh visit to Bethnal Green (1871)
• More revelations of Bethnal Green (1863)
• Ragged London in 1861 (1861)
• To check the survival of the unfit (1896)

 

Opium dens

• A Curious Burial (1890)
• In Limehouse and the Isle of Dogs (1911)
• An opium smoke in Tiger Bay (1883)
• East London Opium Smokers (1868)

 

Oxford House

• East London. Chapter II : Whitechapel (1896)

 

Parks

• Harry Jones and the creation of St. George's Gardens
• Victoria Park (1850)

 

Peasants' Revolt, 1381

• Mile End (1933)

 

"Penny gaffs"

• Down East (1872)
• An evening at a Whitechapel "gaff" (1866)
• The penny gaff (1859)

 

Poor Law

• Pauperism in Bethnal-green (1866)

 

Policing (Includes watchmen)

• Breaking and entering : a miscellany (1729-1838)
• The Brutality of night-constables and watchmen... (1825)
• Down the Highway (1857)

 

Poplar (Metropolitan Borough)

• Official Guide to the Metropolitan Borough of Poplar (1927)

 

Poplar (parish)

• An account of the hamlet of Poplar (1795)
• The church of St. Matthias, Poplar (1932)
• Official Guide to the Metropolitan Borough of Poplar (1927)
• Poplar - apart from politics (1924)
• Poplar in the past (1933)
• Seaworthy Poplar (1931)

 

Poplar Board of Guardians

• Official Guide to the Metropolitan Borough of Poplar (1927)

 

Poplar Chapel See St. Matthias Church, Poplar

 

Poverty

• "And ye shall walk in silk attire" (1881)
• Bethnal Green (1924)
• Bethnal-green Fever Haunts Again (1866)
• Dwellings of the poor in Bethnal Green (1863)
• East London. Chapter II : Whitechapel (1896)
• East London Industries. Introduction (1876)
• More revelations of Bethnal Green (1863)
• Pauperism in Bethnal-green (1866)
• Poplar - apart from politics (1924)
• Ragged London in 1861 (1861)
• To check the survival of the unfit (1896)
• Tower Hamlets 1888 (1979)
• A visit to Wapping "island" (1871)

 

Precinct of Well Close

• Round St. George in the East (1911)
• Well Close. Pt.1 (1934)
• Well Close. Pt.2 (1934)

 

Prince's Square

• Round St. George in the East (1911)

 

Prisons

• Well Close (1934)

 

Prostitution

• Crimes of passion : a miscellany (1728-1780)
• Down the Highway (1857)
• Ragged London in 1861 (1861)
• Ratcliffe-Highway (1857)

 

Quakers

• East London. Chapter I : Sunday in East London (1896)
• Ratcliff (1935)

 

R-S

 

 

Ragged schools

• Ragged London in 1861 (1861)

 

Railways

• The Camden-Town Railway (1851)
• Murder on the North London Railway (1864)

 

Raine, Henry

• St. George's-in-the-East (1933)

 

Ratcliff

• Ratcliff (1933)
• Ratcliff (1935)
• Ratcliff (1935)
• Stepney in other days (1932)

 

Ratcliff Highway

• Down East (1872)
• Down the Highway (1857)
• Jack alive in London (1851-56)
• Ratcliffe-Highway (1857)
• St. George's-in-the-East (1933)

 

Roads

• Commercial Road (1932)

 

Roman Road market

• A friend in my retreat (1978)

 

Sailors

• The black and Asian presence in the Tower Hamlets : a miscellany (1707-1823)
• Down the Highway (1857)
• Jack alive in London (1851-56)
• Marriages at Stepney Church (1839)
• Ratcliffe-Highway (1857)

 

St. Bartholomew the Less Church, Bethnal Green

• Church of St. Bartholomew the Less, Bethnal Green (1844)

 

St. Dunstan

• St. Dunstan's, Stepney (1935)

 

St. Dunstan's Church, Stepney

• Marriages at Stepney Church (1839)
• St. Dunstan's, Stepney (1935)

 

St. George's-in-the-East

• A Curious Burial (1890)
• East and West London (1875)
• Harry Jones and the creation of St. George's Gardens
• My struggle with a tiger (1879)
• Ragged London in 1861 (1861)
• Round St. George in the East (1911)
• St. George's-in-the-East (1933)

 

St. Katharine's

• St. Katharine's and East Smithfield (1933)
• Stepney in other days (1932)

 

St. Mary's Church, Spital Square

• An East End vicar and his work (ca. 1895)

 

St. Mary's Church, Whitechapel

• East London. Chapter II : Whitechapel (1896)

 

St. Matthias Church, Poplar

• The church of St. Matthias, Poplar (1932)

 

Schools See Ragged schools

 

Settlements

See also names of specific settlements

• East London : sketches of Christian work and workers

 

Shadwell

• Shadwell (1932)
• Shadwell (1935)

 

Ships and shipbuilding

• Seaworthy Poplar (1931)

 

Shoreditch

• The penny gaff (1859)
• Ragged London in 1861 (1861)

 

Siege of Sidney Street

• Memories of Mile End (1979)

 

Silk weaving

• "And ye shall walk in silk attire" (1881)
• Bethnal Green (1924)
• Spitalfields. Pt. 2 (1931)
• Spitalfields. Pt. 3 (1932)
• Spitalfields. Pt. 4 (1932)
• Spitalfields. Pt. 5 (1932)

 

Slums

• Bethnal-green Fever Haunts Again (1866)
• Dwellings of the poor in Bethnal Green (1863)
• Homes in the east of London : a fresh visit to Bethnal Green (1871)
• More revelations of Bethnal Green (1863)
• Ragged London in 1861 (1861)

 

Smallpox

• Homes in the east of London : a fresh visit to Bethnal Green (1871)

 

Society of Friends See Quakers

 

Spitalfields

• "And ye shall walk in silk attire" (1881)
• In Alien-Land (1911)
• An East End vicar and his work (ca. 1895)
• Mathematical Society.
• Spitalfields. Pt. 1 (1931)
• Spitalfields. Pt. 2 (1931)
• Spitalfields. Pt. 3 (1932)
• Spitalfields. Pt. 4 (1932)
• Spitalfields. Pt. 5 (1932)
• Whitechapel (1889)

 

Stepney (Metropolitan Borough)

• Stepney in other days (1932)

 

Stepney Church See St. Dunstan's Church, Stepney

 

Stepney Green

• Mile End (1933)

 

Strangers' Home for Asiatics

• In Limehouse and the Isle of Dogs (1911)

 

Stratford Bow See Bow

 

Strikes

• Annie Besant and the match-girls' strike of 1888 (1893?)
• The Matchgirls' Strike of 1888 : news reports (1888)
• White Slavery in London (1888)

 

Sugar bakeries

• At a sugar baking (1876)
• East and West London (1875)

 

Swimming baths

• Official Guide to the Metropolitan Borough of Poplar (1927)

 

Synagogues

• East London. Chapter II : Whitechapel (1896)

 

T-Z

 

Temperance

• The curiosities of drunkenness (1881)

 

Theatres

• Down East (1872)
• An evening at a Whitechapel "gaff" (1866)
• The penny gaff (1859)
• Well Close. Pt.2 (1934)
• Whitechapel Road on a Saturday night (1862)

 

Tiger Bay

• An opium smoke in Tiger Bay (1883)
• A visit to Tiger Bay

 

Toynbee Hall

• East London. Chapter II : Whitechapel (1896)

 

Wapping

• East and West London (1875)
• A visit to Wapping "island" (1871)
• Wapping (1932)
• Wapping Housing Estate (1932)

 

Wash-houses

• Official Guide to the Metropolitan Borough of Poplar (1927)

 

Waxwork shows

• Whitechapel Road on a Saturday night (1862)

 

Weaving

• "And ye shall walk in silk attire" (1881)
• Bethnal Green (1924)
• In Bethnal Green (1911)
• Ragged London in 1861 (1861)
• Spitalfields. Pt. 2 (1931)
• Spitalfields. Pt. 3 (1932)
• Spitalfields. Pt. 4 (1932)
• Spitalfields. Pt. 5 (1932)

 

Well Close, Precinct of

• Round St. George in the East (1911)
• Well Close. Pt.1 (1934)
• Well Close. Pt.2 (1934)

 

White Horse Street

• White Horse Street (1935)

 

Whitechapel

• In Alien-Land (1911)
• An autumn evening in Whitechapel (1888)
• East London. Chapter II : Whitechapel (1896)
• Ragged London in 1861 (1861)
• Whitechapel (1889)
• Whitechapel (1933)
• Whitechapel and Houndsditch (Rag Fair) 1852
• Whitechapel Road on a Saturday night (1862)

 

Whitechapel Mount

• Whitechapel Mount and the London Hospital (1999)

 

Workhouses

• The Female Casual in Whitechapel. Pt. 1 (1866)
• The Female Casual in Whitechapel. Pt. 2 (1866)
• Ragged London in 1861 (1861)
• Tower Hamlets (1979)