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Zone of Transition A radical history walk around Spitalfields and Brick Lane START: Christ Church, Commercial Street “a land of… READ MORE
For centuries Silk Weaving was the dominant industry in Spitalfields and neighbouring areas like Bishopsgate, Whitechapel and Bethnal Green, spreading… READ MORE
On 16th April 1771, Daniel Clarke, a pattern drawer in the silk weaving trade, was chased by a crowd through… READ MORE
Pretty much everyone has heard of the Luddites, although many people still have a misconception about the reasons why they… READ MORE
As previously recounted elsewhere on this blog, in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the silkweavers of London’s East End were… READ MORE
As we have related a number of times on this blog already (here, and here), the silkweavers of Spitalfields and… READ MORE
For centuries Silk Weaving was the dominant industry in Spitalfields and neighbouring areas like Bishopsgate, Whitechapel and Bethnal Green, spreading… READ MORE
In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the silkweavers of London’s East End were well known for organizing collectively to defend… READ MORE
The silkweavers of London’s East End had a long history of organizing collectively to defend their interests; often using violence… READ MORE
… The army was sent into Spitalfields, to keep the peace, during silkweavers’ riots… The silk weavers who lived and… READ MORE
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