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Tower Hamlets Local History Library & Archives • Free public access to collections documenting the histories of London's East End • Related events & exhibitions
277 Bancroft Rd, London E1 4DQ
Joined July 2015
🚨 JOB ALERT!🚨 Tower Hamlets Local History Library & Archives are looking to recruit a full time, fixed term (12 month) Local History Officer (Access & Collections). Salary £35,814 - £37,437, closing date 3 March 2025. Apply here:
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RT @CockneyYiddish: Music hall mashups! The Cockney Yiddish Podcast, launching on 17 Feb, explores the linguistic and cultural hybrids that…
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COCKNEY REVELS Thursday 20 February, 6.30 – 8pm Our final event for Cockney Rebels exhibition will include The Vinyl Lounge with Alan Dein and guest speakers! A Poptastic quiz with Alan Gilbey! And… the MINT JULEPS! 🔗
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13 Feb 2025, 6-7.30pm Secrets from the Cockney Yiddish Music Hall Historian Vivi Lachs will spill the secrets of the Yiddish halls in an entertaining talk with song. Expect a laugh, a tear, and an all-join-in. No Yiddish knowledge necessary. Book ticket
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Coming soon… Tower Hamlets heritage project “Communities of Liberation” reveals the lives of Black peoples’ in the borough in the 1700s. For example, the picture shows the Baptism record of Mary Mason in 1751, from St George in the East church parish record.
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New Dates! Join us for Parent/Carer & under 5s Stay & Play Session. Come have a cuppa, and look through a collection of unique photographs, books, maps and more on the historical East End. Toys for children aged 0-5 years this is a FREE drop in session #stayandplay
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RT @BrickLaneBooks: Join @dontlogoff, and Robert Jones for "Reading East London: Cockney Rebels" on Jan 14! Discover the vibrant history an…
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Still not got your copy of our new 'Cockney Rebels' book? 😱 There's still time! Our last opening day will be TOMORROW Saturday 21 December, re-opening Thursday 2 January. Copies will also be available to buy from at @BrickLaneBooks as well as at all Tower Hamlets @ideastores
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Our next event is with Brick Lane Bookshop on Tuesday 14th January, 7pm! Reading East London presents Cockney Rebels: Popular Music in Tower Hamlets, 1624-2003 at Brick Bane Bookshop with editor Robert Jones & Alan Dein For further details and tickets
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Our legendary book sale is nearly here! 📚 🤩 Open from 10-2 tomorrow, please bring cash 💰 Paperbacks £2 Hardbacks £5 PLUS be among the first to pick up our new publication 'Cockney Rebels', the companion book to our exhibition on popular music in the East End! 👢 🎸 🎼
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We are thrilled to announce the publication of 'Cockney Rebels: Popular Music in the East End, 1624-2003', a fully-illustrated 66-page companion book to our current exhibition! 🎁 📕 Yours for just £12, the book will be on sale from Saturday 7 December in our Reading Room.
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It’s the last day of #ExploreYourArchive week and today it’s all about #YourArchive We are a free, drop-in service dedicated to making centuries of history available to you. Click through the images to see just some of our collections. Find out more
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📚 BOOK SALE! Sat 7 December, 10am -2pm For all East End history fans, secondhand book lovers and bargain hunters - our book sale is back!
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In 1991 a 'dog petition' was launched to save Stepping Stones Farm (now Stepney City Farm), which a number of local hounds bravely 'signed' with inky paws 🐶 Was your dog one of them? If so, you may be able to find their pawprints in our collections #ExploreYourArchive #Animals
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We recently received the archive of the Stevenson #family of Wapping thanks to our friends @ltmuseum It includes membership papers for dockyard trade unions, and a list of donations following the 1921 Wapping Train Disaster. #ExploreYourArchive
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Don't miss out! You can also explore more Isle of Dogs history in our Island History Trust collection ⛵️
📜 Explore Docklands WWII History! Join us at Idea Store Canary Wharf on Dec 1 at 12 PM for a fascinating talk presented by Deborah Levett of Friends of Island History Trust. Enjoy personal photos & stories from local Islanders. More:
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Whitechapel may be a long way from Studio 54 but it nonetheless produced a true #disco diva in Tina Charles, who hit no. 1 in 1976 with 'I Love to Love (But My Baby Loves to Dance)' 🕺 Her first single featured fellow future pop star Reg Dwight on piano 🤩 🎹 #ExploreYourArchive
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It also of course features in our current FREE exhibition, Cockney Rebels: Popular Music in Tower Hamlets, 1624-2003 which is on until 21 February 2025!
NEW EXHIBITION NOW OPEN! We're delighted to share that our poptastic new exhibition 'Cockney Rebels: Popular Music in Tower Hamlets, 1624-2003' is open from today! 🎼 🎸 Entry is FREE and we'll be running until 21 February 2025. Further details here:
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@LindaAHardy Hi Linda, we've no plans to at the moment, but if we do we'll definately announce it in our newsletter
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