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Campaigns to save our heritage and environment, planning and development petitions, good causes and crowdfunding campaigns – read all about what people in Whitechapel are passionate about.

Strikers in Wapping holding up a Workers Revolutionary Party banner during the Print Union Workers Strike in the 1980s.
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The Printers Strike: When Wapping was transformed into a ‘mini- police state’

May 13, 2022May 25, 2022 Cormac Kehoe 102 Views 0 Comments 6 min read

In 1986 Wapping was transformed into a ‘mini police-state’ when it became the arena for a monumental political struggle known

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Bengali Anti-Racist demonstrations in the wake of Altab Ali's murder.
Demonstrations in the wake of Altab Ali's murder

Mile End event explores Bengali resistance to racism in the East End.

May 5, 2022May 5, 2022 Cormac Kehoe 54 Views 0 Comments 2 min read

On the 7th of May, Tower Hamlets Local History Library & Archives will host an event examining Bengali resistance to

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The love-boat of Edith Piaf in St.Katherine's Dock.

Édith Piaf’s ‘love-boat’, docked in St.Katherine’s marina, no longer up for sale

April 24, 2022June 10, 2022 Cormac Kehoe 66 Views 0 Comments 1 min read

Since 2020, Édith Piaf’s yacht had been listed for sale on Sotheby’s website. However, the £1.49 million listing has recently

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Saif Osmani, Save Brick Lane coalition, on Brick Lane
Saif Osmani of the Save Brick Lane coalition. Photo by Christopher Spring, © Social Street CIC

What the Save Brick Lane campaign is really fighting for

April 22, 2022April 22, 2022 Lily Wakeley 141 Views 1 Comment 12 min read

Why is the Save Brick Lane campaign fighting the redevelopment of the Truman Brewery? Brick Lane holds a furtive place

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A view of the SCT community gardens behind Shoreditch Church.
A view of the SCT community gardens behind Shoreditch Church.

Spitalfields Crypt Trust: using social media to support homelessness and addiction

April 12, 2022April 12, 2022 Gulistan Elidemir 57 Views 0 Comments 6 min read

How East End charity Spitalfields City Trust is using social media to stay relevant to GenZ and teach the world

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Striking staff stand outside Queen Mary's University London, Mile End, London.

Staff promise further disruption in defiance of Queen Mary University’s threats to deduct pay.

April 4, 2022June 20, 2022 Cormac Kehoe 96 Views 0 Comments 2 min read

Queen Mary University threatened to deduct 100% of staff’s wages if they failed to reschedule classes missed during strikes.  In

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A picture of The George Tavern building
The George Tavern is located on the corner of Commercial Road and Jubilee Street. © Gulistan Elidemir

Save The George Tavern: neighbouring redevelopments risk music licence

January 28, 2022January 28, 2022 Gulistan Elidemir 118 Views 0 Comments 2 min read

Whitechapel’s historic The George Tavern is under threat once again after plans to redevelop the Exmouth Estate creates liability of

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An illustration of the Covid memorial garden planned by TfL for Aldgate, Whitechapel.
A design of the proposed memorial garden for Braham Street, Aldgate.

Memorial garden in Aldgate to commemorate transport workers victims

October 18, 2021October 18, 2021 Gulistan Elidemir 134 Views 0 Comments 1 min read

Remembering the lives lost to the pandemic through the healing design of a Covid memorial garden Transport for London (TfL)

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© David Hoffman

Whitechapel locals march to ‘Save Brick Lane’

June 24, 2021June 17, 2022 Albert Toth 238 Views 0 Comments 3 min read

Many see the controversial plans to redevelop Truman Brewery as a significant threat to the long standing Bangladeshi community of

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Toynbee Hall, Aldgate, East London 1900

Toynbee Hall: reducing poverty in Tower Hamlets

March 20, 2018March 20, 2021 Tabitha Stapely 192 Views 0 Comments 7 min read

As one of Tower Hamlet’s oldest serving charitable institutions, Toynbee Hall is the grande dame of the borough. Their mission?

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