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East End Dockers

A meeting of striking dockworkers outside West India Quay, East London, during the Great Dock Strike, 1889.
A meeting of striking dockworkers outside the gates of West India Quay, 1889

The Great Dock Strike

April 28, 2022June 9, 2022 Zachary Sweeney-Lynch 156 Views 0 Comments 6 min read

In the summer of 1889, the dockworkers of East London brought the world’s largest trading port to a standstill. The

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Old photograph of Limehouse Chinatown, with a young child walking in front of a Chinese freemason society.
A child walks outside of a Chinese freemason society in Limehouse. Image: The Underground Map

The Story of Limehouse’s Lost Chinatown

March 31, 2022March 31, 2022 Helen Brown 98 Views 0 Comments 6 min read

Limehouse was London’s first Chinatown, home to a tightly-knit community who were demonised in popular culture and eventually erased from

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Meridian House, a Georgian brick house, was the residence of the chaplain serving the East India Company's almshouses.

Tigers, diamonds and thieves: the East India Company’s Poplar almshouses

October 13, 2021November 15, 2021 Helen Brown 424 Views 0 Comments 5 min read

The East India Company’s Poplar almshouses were built thanks to a greedy diamond trader, and housed a seaman maimed by

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