By Jessica Bryant and Lara Mills On 3rd July 2018, we were given the opportunity to sit down with two childhood friends who became involved in the Women’s Rights Movement during the 1970’s, Clare Manifold and Vanessa Hall-Smith. They created the ‘Feminist History in...
Anglo-American conference 2009: CitiesImagining the East End in literature and social survey, 1880-1900 Richard Dennis (UCL)This paper will explore the emergence of ‘East End’ as a category of description and analysis in fiction and social scientific...
Anglo-American conference 2009: CitiesImagining low life before the East End’s invention, c.1780s to 1840s Vic Gatrell (University of Cambridge)Abstract: This paper looks at East London life before Victorian observers ‘invented’, ‘ideologically...
