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Tower Hamlets Local History Library and Archives
United Kingdom
เข้าร่วมเมื่อ 27 เม.ย. 2020
Tower Hamlets Local History Library and Archives covers the area created from the former Metropolitan Boroughs of Bethnal Green, Poplar and Stepney - the heart of London’s world famous East End. Our Grade II listed library building dates from 1860 and is conveniently located in Mile End.
This channel features digitised archive films and videos from our moving image collection, plus videos of our events and exhibitions.
This channel features digitised archive films and videos from our moving image collection, plus videos of our events and exhibitions.
Archival Silence, Gaps and Breaks Artist Talk Q+A (online event, 16 May 2024)
Join exhibiting artists Holly Graham, Rudy Loewe, Diensen Pamben, Kelly Wu and curator Basil Olton for this panel discussion about gaps within the archive that invite us to engage critically with the silenced voices and obscured histories. Based on the writings of Stuart Hall and his essay 'Constituting the Archive', the panel will discuss how the archive has influenced their work and the connection between memory and meaning.
This online event by Tower Hamlets Local History Library and Archives was recorded via Microsoft Teams on 16 May 2024.
This online event by Tower Hamlets Local History Library and Archives was recorded via Microsoft Teams on 16 May 2024.
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An inter-generational conversation on remembrance and memorialisation of the Jewish Holocaust (2024)
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This is a recording of an event that was held at Tower Hamlets Local History Library on Wednesday 24 January 2024, 6.00-7.30pm. It was one of five events programmed by Tower Hamlets Council to mark Holocaust Memorial Day in 2024. The other events included two film screenings organised by UK Jewish Film, a guided walk, and an interfaith event. The original description of the event follows. How d...
Exploring Infant Feeding Support in the East End - Past and Present (online event, 20 October 2023)
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An exploration of infant feeding and breastfeeding support in Tower Hamlets past and present with Genova Messiah (Heritage Officer), Joy Hastings (retired Infant Feeding Manager) and Rosa Schling (oral historian). This online event by Tower Hamlets Local History Library and Archives in partnership with the ‘Grow Your Own’ childcare oral history project and London Challenge Poverty Week was reco...
Summer of Protest: Bengali Anti-racist Movement in 1978 (online event, 17 January 2024)
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It is said that the brutal murder of Altab Ali on 4 May 1978 was a turning point that led to the mobilisation of an anti-racist movement by the Bengali community in the East End. This period marked a political awakening amongst Bengalis who had been long suffering violent racist attacks and housing discrimination in the locality. In this online event Ansar Ahmed Ullah explores what led to the s...
Re-sounding the East End (audio podcast episode, 16 November 2023)
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Audio podcast discussion with curators and historians Nadia Valman, Tamsin Bookey, Rehana Ahmed and Alan Dein responding to 'Everything is different, nothing has changed'; the three sound art installations in the context of the East End's social and public history exhibited at Tower Hamlets Local History Library and Archives in 2023. Features sound clips from the artists' installations. This ev...
How Writers Remembered the Jewish East End with Nadia Valman (online event, 28 September 2023)
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After World War II many East Enders permanently left the neighbourhoods where they had grown up. For Jews whose parents and grandparents had arrived in the East End in the Victorian period this also signified the end of the vibrant Jewish community life that had developed here in the first part of the twentieth century. In this online talk Professor Nadia Valman of Queen Mary University discuss...
Artists on the Lincoln Estate: Talk by William Raban (online event, 13 April 2023)
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Artist filmmaker William Raban, who has lived on the Lincoln Estate in Bow since 1976, explores the creation of an artistic community on the Estate in the 1970s. This online event by Tower Hamlets Local History Library and Archives was recorded via Zoom on Thursday 13 April 2023 6.00-7.00pm GMT.
Aint Hidin Nuttin - East London Grime documentary series trailer (special screening)
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‘Aint Hidin Nuttin’ is a documentary film series by Daniel Glen-Barbour and Mo Bangura (4Deuce) about the history of grime music and its origins in East London. We are delighted to welcome Mo and Dan to Tower Hamlets Local History Library & Archives for a film screening, followed by a discussion on grime's impact on the lives of residents - exploring issues such as conflict, social pressures an...
Caring For Your Collection: Community Archives (online event 16 July 2022)
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Are you a community organisation or individual wondering how to archive your records or personal items? How do your records and materials add to the heritage of the local community. Watch our Learning & Participation Officer Genova Messiah video looking at the historical value of record-keeping. Using examples of photographs, letters, digital records, we will look at best practice for preservat...
Home, Sweet (Squat) Home: Housing struggles in 1970s Tower Hamlets (Bangladesh 50 Years 5 June 2021)
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Hundreds of Bengali families squatted in 1970s Tower Hamlets; they had been denied adequate housing by the councils and were also facing the rise of National Front violence. Squatting was one way of overcoming the housing crisis and building a safer community. Featuring Shabna Begum (QMUL researcher) in conversation with Husnara Matin who was a squatter from the time, the session explores the i...
My Great Uncle, Ayub Ali Master (Bangladesh 50 Years online event, 29 May 2021)
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A pioneer of the Bengali East End, Ayub Ali Master opened the Shah Jalal Restaurant and Coffee House in Spitalfields in 1920. The café became a vital community hub for migrants from the Indian subcontinent, where activists made plans and new arrivals could access information and shelter as well as a taste of home. We are delighted to welcome his grand-nephew Tam Hussein to recount the story of ...
What next for Bengali archives? (Bangladesh 50 Years online event, 20 May 2021)
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The last twenty years have seen a surge of interest in British Bengali history and the establishment of Bengali community archives. Julie Begum and Ansar Ahmed Ullah of the Swadhinata Trust join Howard Doble from London Metropolitan Archives to explore the challenges in researching as well as capturing these histories, the importance of collecting them, and reflections for the future. This onli...
Whose image is it anyway? (Bangladesh 50 Years online event, 19 May 2021)
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Photographers Kois Miah and Phil Maxwell alongside Magda Keaney, Senior Curator of Photographs at the National Portrait Gallery discuss the ethics of ownership, focusing specifically on photographs of the East End’s Bangladeshi community from the 1970s to the present day. The event was convened by Nishat Alam from Khidr Collective Zine. This online event by Tower Hamlets Local History Library a...
1971 in the UK: a photographic exploration (Bangladesh 50 Years online event, 1 April 2021)
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Ujjal Das is a journalist turned curator based in Canada with a specific interest in the role of expatriate Bengalis in the Bangladesh War of Independence. Over the last ten years he has collected many rare records ranging from photographs to posters, leaflets, letters and press cuttings from Bangla and English newspapers. This talk explores his collection, which also includes the first postal ...
The Spirit of ’71: the Bangladeshi War of Independence in Tower Hamlets (online event 31 March 2021)
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‘Joi Bangla!’ in London - or how to fight a war from 5,000 miles away. In this talk historian Sarah Glynn explores the ways in which Bengalis living in Tower Hamlets supported the independence struggle, and set the events of 1971 in the historical context of community activism in the East End. This online event by Tower Hamlets Local History Library and Archives was recorded via Zoom on Wednesd...
Women's Contributions to 1971 (Bangladesh 50 Years online event, 28 March 2021)
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Women's Contributions to 1971 (Bangladesh 50 Years online event, 28 March 2021)
Rainbow Youth Club (East End Mission), circa 1964
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Rainbow Youth Club (East End Mission), circa 1964
Rainbow Youth Club (East End Mission) at Lambourne End, 1963
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Rainbow Youth Club (East End Mission) at Lambourne End, 1963
The Life and Times of Miriam Moses OBE JP (1997)
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The Life and Times of Miriam Moses OBE JP (1997)
Docklands: The Expanding City (1988 LDDC corporate video)
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Docklands: The Expanding City (1988 LDDC corporate video)
Yesterday Today Tomorrow (1988 LDDC corporate video)
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Yesterday Today Tomorrow (1988 LDDC corporate video)
Wandering Stars (1987 Yiddish theatre documentary)
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Wandering Stars (1987 Yiddish theatre documentary)
Explore Your Archive: Unravelling Local History Building Plans
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Explore Your Archive: Unravelling Local History Building Plans
The Matchgirls Strike of 1888 (Sarah Chapman Perspective)
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The Matchgirls Strike of 1888 (Sarah Chapman Perspective)
The Story of Tower Hamlets African and Caribbean Mental Health Organisation (THACMHO)
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The Story of Tower Hamlets African and Caribbean Mental Health Organisation (THACMHO)
Land of Arguments (1982 drama-documentary)
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Land of Arguments (1982 drama-documentary)
The Villages of Stepney (1995 documentary)
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The Villages of Stepney (1995 documentary)
This could have been a lot better if you hadn't added those awful noises all the time.
I'd be more inclined to think it's just a doctored cockney version of (Isle of docks)
It's nice to know London isn't flooding any worse now than it did nearly a thousand years ago.
Absolutely love it. Orlando, Florida thanks you!
I'm from Brooklyn, NY if not for the accent It feels like home.
If this was filmed in the late 1980s then much of what was left of the old Jewish Eastend was pretty much coming to an end. Bloom's lasted until 1996. Like all generations, outward migration meant that most of the population had moved away by the time this film was made. Cycle of life....
14:01 the millennium dome (o2 arena)
Wonder what everyone’s like now from this video
Neoliberalism
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Lovely film, I worked at Queen Mary for 17 years and this brought back many memories of its better fays
Very nice although I recall Mr. Greenberg remarking to a fellow thespian, " What you are I wouldn't eat!"
Well done Dr Ullah.
Lived in Stepney as a small child , from about 1962 - 1968 , St Paul’s way in a pre-fab house.
Fascinating. Brilliant. They ought to show this documentary in UK schools.👏👌❤️💯percent.🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
London where did you go ? down the toilet look at it now ,shame on all who destroyed people and communities ,no one even smile at you now in case you want sommin ? most out for themself and it will only get worse ,look back at how we used to be ,dear God x
My Booba & Zaida Silver were caterers at Weddings at the La Boheme in the years before the second World War. In later years she catered my brother’s and my Barmitzvah assisted by my late father the great Solly Vishnick.
My dad was a bell hanger for the Whitechapel Bell Foundry, and during school holidays I also worked there, it was a great place the East end and I seem to remember opposite the foundry on the other side of Whitechapel Road was a street that i think mayhave been called Blacklion yard I had to go in the shops as i was the errand boy, often called to get lunches etc. I remember the jewish shops etc and the notion that all Jews are rich was a fallacy, these were EastEnd working class Jews. I lived in South Tottenham very closed to Stamford Hill and iconic Jewish area but rather more well heeled and very orthodox, you could buy salt beef sandwiches which were ro die for and of cause the local football team Tottenham were nicknamed the Yiddos, arch enemy of Arsenal known as the gooners.
No English people left now.
Excellent
Fast forward to 2024 Jews are not feeling safe again and planning to flee UK due to Islamists and left wing hatred and intimidation
Multiculturalism and diversity = no longer an English city RIP London England - You were once a great English city
Worst ever decision made to give up the docks! It totally destroyed our community and it also gave up our little bit of independence regarding trade. Historical buildings that survived the war were pulled down and soulless concrete jungle put up but the actual people who originated from the area was forced out! My family was from that area and can be traced back nearly 300 years so far. We were forced out 20 years ago by an illegal land grab by the council. Tower Hamlets Council is the most corrupt council you will ever know and reminds me of the King in Mile End shown is this video backing out of the deal! Bless my Nan she was one of the last to go surrounded by bulldozers taking on the builders with her Yorkshire terrier. Everyday they took her garden a foot at a time and the whole family would turn up to support with the East London Advertiser in tow. I wish I wasn't to young to realise what was at stake.
@missj.d9187, Appreciate you sharing that. At every level it's the landlords who rule the world
It's wild how these proxys since +/-1880s 1920s 1960s 2020s work as global socialist orders rage all the nation's push complexity down upon the people turning neighbors against each other. I was blessed to know 1st hand direct testimony of the first freed slaves black and white Irish who claimed land on a homestead act 350 hectors beside each other in usa and they grew up together through all these until passing in late 1970s. Share cropping together and didn't socislize until they was about 50 years old. I was a kid and sat under them as they canned tomatoes, sewed quilts and talked about how our own allys like uk ,france, German, Spain usa gov all proxy one another turning neighbors against each other agitating the youth. Pushing complexity down to break up like mined vote blocks forming through faith or just kids just getting to close to one another fearful of a wise generation to thr tricks of the politacal trade. Hearing both sides telling me the same account of history then going to school under a revision view from a more fringe extreme was very enlightening on how the majority is ignored but micro scope is put on a very few political front. .. 2020 usa a 1st class window seat Begin the day holding hands Marching end it defending your home or business from getting burned down . The news camera takes that picture ,runs that headline . Same moement proxy fighting each other. The politicians gets justifying bill to impose physical prescription grabs more power the divide deepens. Same story over and over across all borders
The police play very active part in empowering racists and some cases they walk n hand hand with racists. I remember gangs plane cloth police beating up Bangladesh youths in Cable street. Racists had a free hand, you could say a licence to attack with weapons, petrol bomb s homes, attack us at schools, work places, anywhere and anytime. The term Paki bashing still echoes on the east end. The police are still at it, and so are neo cons in Labour party.
Born in vallance rd 61 lived and grew up there until the mid nineties drive thru there sometimes now sad to see what its become 😔
What u mean
Blimey the Krays lived in Valence Road
mm so did the TWINNS , LOVE THEM HATE THEM THEY WERE AND ARE PART OF THE EASTEND HACKNEY BORN IN 1953 LIVED THERE TILL I WAS 10 YEARS AND MOVED TO SOUTH LONDON GENERATIONS OF EASTENDERS STEPNEY , WHITE CHAPPEL , DALSTON , HACKNEY NOT ONE LIVES THERE NOW , PLAYED IN VICKY PARK , LONDON FIELDS , THE STREETS WERE MY PLAY AREA , NEW MOST OF HACKNEY LIKE THE BACK OF MY HAND NOW ITS A BYGONE TIME FOR ME YOU CAN TAKE THE BOY OUT OF THE EASTEND ,,, BUT CANT TAKE THE EASTEND OUT OF THE BOY I FEEL SO PROUD I WAS AND I AM A EASTEND BOY AMEN
La Boheme i been in there when it was a nightclub Benji's lol
Tower block's were the worst buildings ever conceived of and built on this planet in this century. They are Hell on earth even today. They changed the name from Towers to Apartments. A dog by any other name, is still a dog. 🌈
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Most people don't understand why the Jewish people receive so much negative press. I believe they have done a wrong to a people by taking over their country and expelling the people that was in 1948. In 2023 they are at it again. Whatever good feeling their was for the Jews after WW2 it's gone now. Truth has to triumph. At the moment the planet in bathing in liars.
Pumping stations were not only about supplying water you know.. They were part of a hydro power network.
Remembered? But it's still there
Absolutely brilliant 👍
Really enjoy this. I moved to this area in 1994. I worked at the Royal London Hospital when I first qualified as a doctor in 1995 and all three of my children were born there. It was a good area to live in then but I had to move for career reasons to Glasgow.
I miss old bermondsey and the docks
Muzel tov 👍
My dad taught at Raine's Foundation from 1947 to 1977.
This makes me sad. A great country, handed over to people who won’t fight for their own. We will be condemned by future historians.
think they used some spare gold they had lying around to pay for most of it
Who cares? There’s plenty to worry about all around us,,,,,
Idiotic Comment !!
My dad went through this in Shadwell area.
Fascinating.
I come from poplar but lived in stewart Street in the 80s for year's there's no communities there long gone most people that live on the I.O.D don't even come from East London.
Neither did most of the others that grew up there previously
There will always be new people in any area, but l feel l understand what our friend is trying to say. My Grandfather's people came from Devon to help build ships that required rivets, a skill that wasn't available in the area. They fell in love with the island and stayed. My Grandmother's Father was from Norway. He stayed for a similar reason. My Grandfather did not see himself as anything other than an islander, but his lineage did not really go back far at all. My Grandmother was exactly of the same mindset, but again she was only, at best, 2nd generation.
I am a true stepney by blood name and origin my father his father his father his father and his father were all stepneys
My chicken burger meal is from stepney aswell
i was born in 1983. I lived near west india dock road for 15 years best years of my life as a kid i saw the development of canary wharf. i think they finnished the building around 1990 the early part of development and still carries on today.
The visuals are bad.
So much change, so fascinating lives once lived, wish we could go back to pre industrial times, i lived on island for few years, grandad from Millwall, windmills
The centre at Beaumont Grove at the end of the video closed earlier this year.
I was brought up in Stepney, early years a large Jewish presence, later years Bangladesh. East End people were finally pushed out
They took our poverty so we could move up ?
The east end has always changed way back french imagrent s to Irish who built the dooks to Jews to Bangladesh to east European I love them all the mix is my eastend
@@garethjones9605 IDIOTIC comment. Would you like to live in an area where 99% of the culture is not your own?
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