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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
Bengalis in London's East End by Ansar Ahemd Ullah and John Eversley.
Price: £14.99 plus £2 post and packing.
Bethnal Green by Gary Haines (old photographs and captions).
Price: £12.99 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.
The Bethnal Green Tube Disaster of 1943: A Stairway to Heaven.
Price: 9.99 plus £3 post and packing.
Better Times: a play by Gary Keefe (Poplar Rates Dispute, 1921).
Price: £2.95 plus £1 post and packing.
Black Londoners, 1880 - 1990 by Susan Okokon.
Price: £9.99 plus £1 post and packing.
Bow and Bromley-by-Bow by Gary Haines (Pictorial history of the area)
Price £12.99 plus £1 post and packing.
The Cable Street Gardeners by Chris Kelly.
Price: £4.95 plus £1 post and packing.
Cahill Blood (Life of J. Z. Cahill, Mayor of Poplar, Head of PLA Docks Police)
Price: £15 plus £5 post and packing.
Central Stepney History Walk by Tom S. Ridge (walk, text, photographs).
Price: £1.00 plus £1 post and packing.
Changing Places: A Short History of the Old Mile End Town Residents Association Area (old and new photos and text).
Price: £4.50 plus £2 post and packing.
Cockney Campaign by Frank R. Lewey.
Price £14.99 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 £2 post and packing
Exploring The East End (walks, text and photographs).
Price: £9.99 plus £2 post and packing.
Good Morning, Brothers! (autobiography of Jack Dash, docker's leader).
Price: £4.99 plus £2 post and packing.
The Green East End 2006 Calendar.
Price: £6.99 plus £2 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 £2 post and packing.
Huguenot Tales; The Rondeau's of Spitalfields; an everyday story of Huguenot folk.
Price: £5 plus £1 post and packing.
In Letters of Gold (text and photographs of the Suffragettes in Bow).
Price: £4.95 plus £2 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.
Judge Jeffreys and the Ivy Case by Madge Darby.
Price: £3 plus £1 post and packing.
The Little Book of the East End by Dee Gordon.
Price: £9.99 plus £1 post and packing.
London's East End Survivors: Voices of the Blitz Generation by Andrew Bissell.
Price: £20 plus £5 post and packing.
London's East End: a 1960s Album by Steve Lewis (old photographs).
Price: £14.99 plus £2 post and packing.
Memoirs of an Old East Ender by Stan Newens.
Price: £5 plus £1 post and packing.
Memories of Wapping 1900-1960 by Martha Leigh (Photos and memories)
Price £12.99 plus £1 post and packing
On the Waterfront Calendar 1998.
Price: £1 plus £2 post and packing.
A Pictorial History of Victoria Park.
Price: £6.99 plus £2 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.
The Romance of Bethnal Green by Cathy Ross (historical topics with photos).
Price: £11.99 plus £2 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.
Voices of Stepney by Dee Gordon (memories of the 1950s and 1960s).
Price: £12.99 plus £2 post and packing.
Walks in Dickens London; Discover London's Docklands.
Price: £3.99 plus £1 post and packing.
Wapping 1600 - 1800 by Derek Morris and Ken Cozens.
Price: £9.60 plus £3 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.
