Imogen Garfinkel, Author at Whitechapel LDN

Shawarma stall at Petticoat Lane Food Court © Tower Hamlets Council

Petticoat Lane Food Court wins Best Speciality Market Award

‘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

‘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

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.

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