East End Dockers — Poplar LDN

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

A child walks outside of a Chinese freemason society in Limehouse. Image: The Underground Map

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

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