This issue, guest edited by Emma Francis and Nadia Valman, revisits the Victorian East End, examining its distinctive spaces including docks, libraries, music halls, medical missions, and asylums. These essays explore fiction, photographs, street dances, diaries, investigative journalism, and texts of social investigation: they cumulatively demonstrate how the East End continues to provoke sharp questions about urban life and social progress.
(Image credit: © Andrew Graham Dixon, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 UK)
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Introduction: Revisiting the Victorian East End |
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Emma Francis, Nadia Valman |
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Bedraggled Ballerinas on a Bus Back to Bow: The ‘Fairy Business’ |
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Anne Witchard |
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‘Playing Deaf’: Jewish Women at the Medical Missions of East London, 1880–1920s |
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Ellen Ross |
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Jews in the East End, Jews in the Polity, ‘The Jew’ in the Text |
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David Feldman |
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Reading Room Geographies of Late-Victorian London: The British Museum, Bloomsbury and the People’s Palace, Mile End |
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Susan David Bernstein |
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‘Long Trudges Through Whitechapel’: The East End of Beatrice Webb’s and Clara Collet’s Social Investigations |
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Gabrielle Mearns |
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Arthur Morrison, Criminality, and Late-Victorian Maritime Subculture |
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Diana Maltz |
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The City of Others: Photographs from the City of London Asylum Archive |
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Caroline Bressey |
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