East End Jewish Archives — Whitechapel LDN

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

The Merchant of Venice 1936 commemorates radical East End history

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

Left to right: Millie Finger, Beatty Orwell and Marie Joseph, veterans of the Battle of Cable Street, 1936. Image courtesy of Kate Thompson.

Standing up to Oswald Mosley’s Blackshirts at the age of 19, Beatty Orwell’s century-long fight against injustice took her from

Petticoat Lane Market captured on a busy market day in the 1920s, East London.

From the Tudor Times to the bombing of World War II, this is the story of Petticoat Lane Market’s refusal

David Rosenberg is a radical historian whose work focuses on London and the East End. He has a long personal