Imogen Garfinkel, Author at Whitechapel LDN

Dr Fatima Rajina, the author of British Bangladeshi Muslims in the East End: The Changing Landscape of Dress and Language, next to her book cover

Dr Fatima Rajina is the author of British Bangladeshi Muslims in the East End: The Changing Landscape of Dress and Language. Front cover illustration by Waheeda Rahman-Mair

Dr Fatima Rajina’s book on how British-Bangladeshi Muslim identity transformed after 9/11

9 August 20249 August 2024 Imogen Garfinkel

As she confronts how the War on Terror shaped the language and clothing of British-Bangladeshis in her debut book, Dr

The next generation taking over the family-run Beigel Shop on Brick Lane

Meet the next generation of The Beigel Shop on Brick Lane, from left: Louise Zelman, Barry White, Ashley Zelman, Hayley White. Photography by Emil Lombardo © Social Streets CIC

Culture East End Jewish Local

Beigel or bagel? The history of the Eastern European Jewish staple and how it shaped the East End today

29 July 202411 August 2024 Imogen Garfinkel

As Brick Lane’s yellow-fronted Beigel Shop reopens after a surprising four-month closure, we journey back to 14th-century Poland to unravel

Shawarma stall at Petticoat Lane Food Court © Tower Hamlets Council

Eating & drinking Local Out & about

Petticoat Lane Food Court wins Best Speciality Market Award

8 February 20249 February 2024 Imogen Garfinkel

‘The market is my life’: Petticoat Lane Food Court traders respond to winning the award for the Best Speciality Market

Nadia Valman and Vivi Lachs at The Great Yiddish Parade in 2017. Photo © Sarah Ainslie

Culture East End Jewish Local

On loss and incomplete retrieval: the Jewish East End with Nadia Valman

29 January 20247 August 2024 Imogen Garfinkel

‘I think my interest in the East End is partly about having not asked my grandmother enough questions about her

$Bandele ‘Tex’ Ajetunmobi, from the series East End Portraits , 1950 - 1980. Courtesy Autograph, London$

Bandele ‘Tex’ Ajetunmobi, from the series East End Portraits, 1950 - 1980. Courtesy Autograph, London

Arts & artists Culture Local

Bandele ‘Tex’ Ajetunmobi’s joyful archive of working-class East End communities

23 January 20246 February 2024 Imogen Garfinkel

From market stall traders to lovers in the dim-lit corners of members’ clubs, Bandele ‘Tex’ Ajetunmobi archived everyday moments of

Tracy-Ann Oberman as Shylock in The Merchant of Venice 1936. Photo: Marc Brenner.

Culture East End Jewish Local

The Merchant of Venice 1936 commemorates radical East End history

26 October 202316 November 2023 Imogen Garfinkel

A new interpretation of Merchant of Venice set during the Battle of Cable Street reveals how this timeless Shakespearean play