The East End as an idea is known to every Londoner, and to many
others, though its boundaries are vague. Alan Palmer's historical
overview of the area (first published in 1989 and revised in 2000)
takes its extent to be the traditional limits of Hackney and Tower
Hamlets, Hoxton and Shoreditch, the docklands and their overflow
into West Ham and East Ham. And at the heart of the East End lies
Spitalfields, home to a transient, often radical and hard-working
population.
Though it is often seen as London's centre of industry and
poverty, in comparison to the well-to-do West End, the East End has
always been a diverse place: in the seventeenth century, Hackney
was a pleasant country retreat; Stepney and the docklands a
bustling world of sailors and merchants. The book traces the
development of the area from these roots, through the nineteenth
century - when the East End became notorious as the home of
radicals, exiled revolutionaries and the very poor, its crowded
streets the scene of murder, riot and cholera -to the bombing of
the first and second world war; and the subsequent decline and
regeneration of the twentieth century.
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