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by Ed Glinert (Author) "They came from afar to marvel at the horrors of London's ugly alter ego, to damn the rotting underbelly of the teeming metropolis ..." (more)
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  • Paperback: 336 pages
  • Publisher: Penguin (29 Jun 2006)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 014101718X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0141017181
  • Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.8 x 2.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 90,519 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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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.

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Ed Glinert was born in Dalston, east London. he is the author of The Literary Guide to London and The London Compendium and leads a variety of walking tours around London. His fascination with people and place, the bizarre and the arcane, coupled with his forensic gift for digging out obscure stoires, is perfectly suited to this uniquely intriguing place.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Interesting material, badly put together, 18 Aug 2006
By Ernie Goggins (the heart of the East End) - See all my reviews
I think this book is well worth reading - as the previous reviewer noted there are a lot of fascinating stories and information in here, and to give the author he has dug up same real gems. But at the same time I was disappointed because with such rich material to work with the book could have been so much better.

It really cries out for a good editor. The thematic structure could work perfectly well and in some cases does (e.g. the chapter on the history of the Chinese in the East End) but at other times it seems random and repetitive.

For example, Jack the Ripper. Obviously you can't have a book about the East End without Jack the Ripper. But rather than cover it in a chapter on murder - a seemingly obvious place - we get 15 pages on it in a chapter on mystics and religion just because there has been speculation that some of the murders may have followed Masonic ritual. And we then got a lot of the detail repeated a little later on in a chapter on the Jews in the East End because there was also speculation that the Ripper might be Jewish.

I also found the imbalance between different subjects slightly odd and occasionally rather frustrating. For example, there is more space devoted to describing the route followed by Falk the 18th century alchemist on his daily walk than there is to the Black Death, which is dismissed in three paragraphs. In total we get eight pages on Falk, who is presumably one of the author's pet topics but is of at best limited interest to the rest of us.

In addition there are quite a lot of silly mistakes that could and should have been picked up (e.g. a statement that World War 2 started in 1940).

To sum up: it is worth reading anyway, but it is not half as good as it could have been given the subject matter.

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6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A Fascinating History of London's East End, 9 Aug 2006
I just finished it this morning after reading it in super fast time because I couldn't put it down.

Rather than a dry, chronological history of the East End, each chapter deals with a different aspect area from 1665 to the present day.

Some of the chapters and topics covered include:

The rebuilding of the area after the Great Fire (this is particularly fascinating as it details the theory behind the way in which the new streets and buildings were planned)

'The Silk Weavers of Spitalfields' - the Huguenot immigrants

'The Mysteries of the Orient' - the Chinese immigrants and their opium dens

The Docks

Jewish immigrants

Political uprisings, including the British Union of Fascists

The Blitz and the Second World War

Of course, it would not be complete without a chapter on Jack the Ripper and the Ratcliff Highway Murders

If you are in any way interested in the history of London then this book is essential. Accessible, stuffed with pieces of little-known information it is a superb read.


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