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Booklets for Sale
Items marked with an * are published by Tower Hamlets Libraries, and are the only titles on which discounts are available. Discounts are for orders of ten copies or more; 20% discount available to non-bookshops, societies etc; 30% discount available to bookshops.
Items marked with ++ are too large to be posted and must therefore be collected in person at the Local History Library or alternatively, from one of our libraries or Idea Stores.
Please note postage and packaging prices may vary.
Booklets available are:
*All My Yesterdays (autobiography of Patrick Hanshaw of Wapping).
Price: £5.99 plus £1 post and packing.
Anglican Church on the Isle of Dogs 1854-2004 (Christ and St. John with St. Luke).
Price: £4.99 plus £1 post and packing.
Arthur Morrison by Stan Newens (Novelist of realism in East London and Essex)
Price £4.00 plus £1 post and packing
Bethnal Green by Gary Haines (old photographs and captions).
Price: £11.99 plus £1 post and packing.
A Bethnal Green Memoir: Recollections of Life in the 1930s - 1950s by Derek Houghton
Price: £14.99 plus £3 post and packing.
Bow & Bromley-by-Bow by Gary Haines (Pictorial history of the area)
Price £12.99 plus £2 post and packing.
Central Stepney History Walk by Tom S. Ridge (walk, text, photographs).
Price: £1.00 plus £1 post and packing.
Colonel Thomas Rainsborough: Wapping's Most Famous Soldier by Lincoln Jones.
Price: £1.20 plus £1 post and packing.
East Calendar 1999 (photographs of Bangladesh and East London).
Price: £1 plus £2 post and packing.
East End At Work (old photographs and captions).
Price: £9.99 plus £1 post and packing.
East End Past by Richard Tames.
Price: £15.95 plus £3 post and packing.
East End Story (autobiography by Alfred Gardner describing life in Stepney in the 1960's to 1990's).
Price: £5.95 plus £1 post and packing.
East London: A Hotbed of Football 1867-1918 by Colm Kerrigan
Price £12.00 plus £2 post and packing.
East London Record (Journal of the East London History-articles, reviews):
No. 8 Price: £1.15 plus £1 post and packing
No. 9 Price: £1.30 plus £1 post and packing
No. 10 Price: £1.50 plus £1 post and packing
No. 11 Price: £1.80 plus £1 post and packing
No. 14 Price: £2.10 plus £1 post and packing
No. 15 Price: £2.25 plus £1 post and packing
No. 16 Price: £2.25 plus £1 post and packing
No. 17 Price: £2.50 plus £1 post and packing
No. 18 Price: £2.50 plus £1 post and packing
No. 19 Price: £2.75 plus £1 post and packing
Exploring The East End (walks, text and photographs).
Price: £9.99 plus £1 post and packing.
Good Morning, Brothers! (autobiography of Jack Dash, docker's leader).
Price: £4.99 plus £1 post and packing.
The Green East End 2006 Calendar.
Price: £6.99 plus £1 post and packing.
Guilty and Proud of It! Poplar's Rebel Councillors and Guardians 1919 -25 by Janine Booth
Price: £12.95 plus £3 post and packing.
*The Hamlets and The Tower (chronology of 1,000 years of Tower Hamlets).
Price: £3.99 plus £1 post and packing.
Huguenot Tales; The Rondeau's of Spitalfields; an everyday story of Huguenot folk.
Price: £3.00 plus £1 post and packing.
In Letters of Gold (text and photographs of the Suffragettes in Bow).
Price: £3.95 plus £1 post and packing.
Isle of Dogs; A Brief History Vol. 1 - 1066-1918.
Price: £10.00 plus £2 post and packing.
Isle of Dogs; A Brief History Vol. 2 - The 20th Century.
Price: £10.00 plus £2 post and packing.
Memories of Wapping 1900-1960 by Martha Leigh (Photos and memories)
Price £12.99 plus £2 post and packing
Mile End Old Town, 1740 - 1780 by David Morris
[the new and enlarged edition of a social history of an early modern London suburb]
Price: £9.60 plus £3 post and packing
On the Waterfront Calendar 1998.
Price: £1 plus £1 post and packing.
A Pictorial History of Victoria Park.
Price: £6.99 plus £1 post and packing.
The Poplars (1/17th London Regiment Poplar & Stepney Batallion in WW1).
Price: £7.50 plus £2 post and packing.
Power Writers; Discovering and Celebrating Five African Writers.
Price: £4.00 plus £1 post and packing.
St. Dunstan and All Saints, Stepney (colourful illustrated church history guide).
Price: £3.00 plus £1 post and packing.
*The Tower Hamlets Connection (potted biographies).
Price: £7.99 plus £1 post and packing.
Treves and the Elephant Man (The London Hospital's patient John Merrick).
Price: £3.95 plus £1 post and packing.
Walks in Dickens London; Discover London's Docklands.
Price: £3.99 plus £1 post and packing.
Watch Your Fingers by Alfred Gardner (career of an East End garment maker 1955-1973).
Price: £7 plus £2 post and packing.