East End

We at Queen Mary are proud to be a part of our local history and community. This month we have assembled a collection of books about the East End to welcome new students on our campus.

Ethnicity, class and aspiration: understanding London's new East End

Beyond the Tower: a history of East London

East London Suffragettes

East Enders: Family and community in East London

The new cockney?: new ethnicities and adolescents' speech in the traditional East End of London

Class, ethnicity and religion in the Bengali East End: A political history

The Cultural Construction of London's East End : Urban Iconography, Modernity and the Spatialisation of Englishness

Arthur Morrison and the East End: The Legacy of Slum Fictions

Socialism and the Diasporic 'Other' : A Comparative Study of Irish Catholic and Jewish Radical and Communal Politics in East London, 1889-1912

Selection of titles from our print collection

Food and multiculture : a sensory ethnography of East London by Alex Rhys-Taylor (2017)

Writing the urban jungle: reading empire in London from Doyle to Eliot by Joseph McLaughlin (2000)

The streets of East London by William J. Fishman; with photographs by Nicholas Breach (1979)

A child of the Jago by Arthur Morrison; introduction by Anita Miller (1995, 3rd ed)


Online TV and Video

Box of Broadcasts (bob) is a free resource for Queen Mary Students and Staff. Here you can find a wide range of educational programmes. You can access bob here .