London History

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Muslims in London not only have almost twice as much confidence in the government as the wider public, but greater faith in the police, judicial and electoral system, a poll suggested today.

Runners dressed as pantomime horses, toothless East End hags cheering the runners on, St John’s Ambulance picking up the fallen, and ‘plucky tryers’ finishing the course on Thursday … why Frank Keating hates the London Marathon.

This blog came about as an offshoot from the weekly history pages I write for a paper called East End Life. I’ve been collecting these for the last few years on a dedicated website, www.eastlondonhistory.com and there are now several hundred of the things, everything from Helen Shapiro to Oswald Mosley, from Tower Bridge to the Blackwall Tunnel. Increasingly, there’s little bits of news, history, notices of shows and exhibitions, and just observations about London that don’t fit into the history pages. Increasingly too, my beat of Tower Hamlets and the East End becomes slightly frustrating, as interesting stuff happens elsewhere in London too. This then is to be the continuing blog of London history, oddments and stories … we’ll even go south of the river!