Young Mayor Fetuma Hassan: From Mulberry School to speaking at the Financial Times
Tower Hamlets’ Young Mayor, Fetuma Hassan speaks to us about the lack of youth representation, falling in love with politics,
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Author: Alice Chapman
Jewish Anarchism in the East End: A club, a newspaper and three visionaries
Rudolf Rocker. Source, unknown
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Stepney Green Gardens: a ribbon of green, a clock tower, and a fountain
Once known as Mile End Old Town, Stepney Green Gardens was a strip of green space saved from developers back
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‘Violent’ arrest of pro-Palestinian activist leads to demonstration against police brutality
On Friday 12th July, a pro-Palestinian protester was arrested on Whitechapel Road, close to the East London Mosque, leading to
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Box Park Shoreditch is set to close after 12 ‘unforgettable years’
Boxpark is set to close its Shoreditch site at the end of this summer – and hopes to give its
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Trailblazer of Tower Hamlets: Miriam Moses, the UK’s first female Jewish mayor, and her lasting legacy
Miriam Moses gave her life to the people of Stepney, pioneering what was then Tower Hamlet’s future, and now its
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Joseph Merrick ‘The Elephant Man’: his exploitation, saviour and early death in Whitechapel
Joseph Merrick, nicknamed The Elephant Man, resided at 259 Whitechapel Road in Tower Hamlets.
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This year’s Refugee Week celebrates concepts of home with food, film, and music events across Tower Hamlets.
refugee handprints painted on a sunshine for refugee week in Tower Hamlets
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Dancers flow through Whitechapel’s streets in Andrew Pierre Hart’s multidisciplinary exhibition at Whitechapel Gallery
The first scene of the film installation in Andrew Pierre Hart’s exhibition at Whitechapel Gallery in Tower Hamlets East London.
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Protestors in Whitechapel attempted to block an asylum transfer at Booth House
An ‘anti-raid callout’ on social media about a transfer of migrants to Bibby Stockholm led to a flash protest outside
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The best saree shops to visit in Whitechapel
High end sarees for sale inside saree shop on Whitechapel Highstreet.
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This is Home: A Norwegian in Aldgate East
Norwegian student Victoria Brustad on breaking out of the bubble of her home city Oslo, and broadening her perspective on
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