Five Leaves Publications

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The home of successive waves of immigrants, from the Huguenots in the seventeenth century to the Jews in the nineteenth and the Bangladeshis of today, London's East End has tbeen the scene of the country's worst poverty and exploitation, and has inspired its greatest philanthropists, reformers and radicals. In this classic text, the area's turbulant past and continuing traditions are accurately explored in text and pictures. A book for the historian, the general reader, the visitor and those who live in the East End.

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