Local History Library and Archives Shop
How to order
Tower Hamlets Local History Library and Archives stocks a wide range of excellent books, attractive maps and postcards for sale. You can buy these onsite during your visit or order them via post.
- Email localhistory@towerhamlets.gov.uk to check that items are in stock and prices. Phone us on 020 7364 1290 during our Reading Room opening hours. You can also write to us at Tower Hamlets Local History Library and Archives, 277 Bancroft Road, London E1 4DQ.
- Tell us which title(s) you would like to buy and the number of copies required. The largest number of items that can be sent by post is five per order, and all postal orders are subject to postage and packaging fees.
- You can make your payment by credit or debit card over the phone during our Reading Room opening hours
- Your items will be posted to you on receipt of payment.
Books and pamphlets for sale
| Title | Price |
| After You've Gone [catalogue for the Alan Dein exhibition] by Tower Hamlets Local History Library and Archives] | £1 |
| All My Yesterdays by Patrick Hanshaw | £1 |
| Anglican Church on the Isle of Dogs 1854-2004 by Eve Hostettler |
£4.99 |
| Bengali Language Movement: pamphlet, 1996 by Julie Begum, Nirmul Committee | £1 |
| Bethnal Green by Gary Haines | £10 |
| Cable; No. 15 The Jewish East End Celebration Society | £1 |
| Café Royal: Around Whitechapel 1972–1992 | £6.50 |
| Café Royal: Balfron Tower | £6.50 |
| Café Royal: Brick Lane 1970s | £6.50 |
| Café Royal: England 1970s | £6.50 |
| Café Royal: Fieldgate Mansions 1973–1985 | £6.50 |
| Café Royal: Parfett Street Evictions 1973 | £6.50 |
| Café Royal: Petticoat Lane London 1966 | £6.50 |
| Café Royal: Robin Hood Gardens | £6.50 |
| Café Royal: Spitalfields 1977 | £6.50 |
| Café Royal: Whitechapel 1970s Part One | £6.50 |
| Café Royal: Whitechapel 1970s Part Two | £6.50 |
| A Child's History of the Isle of Dogs: Migration Continuity and Change by Eve Hostettler and Philippa Dodds | £1 |
| Cockney Rebels: Popular Music in Tower Hamlets, 1624-2003 | £12 |
| Columbia Road (East London Photo Stories 7) by Johanna Neurath | £5 |
| Couldn’t Afford the Eels: Memories of Wapping 1900-1960 by Martha Leigh | £5 |
| Drawing Black Lives in the East End: a zine by Rudy Loewe | £1 |
| The East End At War by Rosemary Taylor and Christopher Lloyd | £5 |
| East End Past by Richard Tames | £10 |
| An East End Story: A Tale of Friendship by Alfred Gardner | £1 |
| East London Record; No.10 | £0.50 |
| East London Record; No.11 | £0.50 |
| East London Record; No.12 | Out of stock |
| East London Record; No.13 | Out of stock |
| East London Record; No.14 | £0.50 |
| East London Record; No.15 | £0.50 |
| East London Record; No.16 | £0.50 |
| East London Record; No.17 | £0.50 |
| East London Record; No.18 | £0.50 |
| East London Record; No.19 | Out of stock |
| East London Record; No.6 | Out of stock |
| East London Record; No.7 | Out of stock |
| East London Record; No.8 | £0.50 |
| East London Record; No.9 | £0.50 |
| Good Morning, Brothers! by Jack Dash | £1 |
| The Hamlets and The Tower: One Thousand Years of Tower Hamlets History by Tower Hamlets Local History Library and Archives | £1 |
| In Letters of Gold: Story of Sylvia Pankhurst and the East London Federation of the Suffragettes in Bowby Rosemary Taylor |
£3 |
| London's East End: A 1960s Album by Steve Lewis | £10 |
| London's Sailortown 1600-1800 by Derek Morris and Ken Cozens | £12.60 |
| Minnie Lansbury: Suffragette, Socialist, Rebel Councillor by Janine Booth | £12.99 |
| Never Again: Rock Against Racism & The Anti-Nazi League 1976-82 by David Renton | £15 |
| A pictorial history of Victoria Park, London E3: Illustrated with Postcards and Contemporary Photographs by Philip Mernick |
£4.99 |
| Piety and Piracy: The History of Wapping and St. Katherine's by Madge Darby | £5 |
| The Poplars: What life was like on the WesternFront in the First World War as experienced by the 1/17th London [ Poplar & Stepney ] Battalion, the East End Regiment by Ron Wilcox |
£5 |
| Power Writers: Discovering and Celebrating Five African Writers by Phillis Wheatley, Ukawsaw Gronniosaw, John Marrant, Olaudah Equiano,Quobna Ottobah Cugoano | £1 |
| Seven Parishioners of Stratford Bow by Michael Peet | £5 |
| Stepney in Peace and War: The Paintings of Rose L. Henriques by Tower Hamlets Local History Library and Archives | £1 |
| Streets of London: The Booth Notebooks – East by Jess Steele and Mike Steele | £12 |
| The East End In Colour 1960-1980 by David Granick | £15 |
| The East End In Colour 1980-1990 by Tim Brown | £15 |
| Tower Hamlets Bangladeshi Politicians Reference Book by Mayar Akash | £9.99 |
| The Tower Hamlets Connection: A Biographical Guide by Harold Finch | £2.50 |
| Tracing Your Irish Family History on the Internet: A Guide for Family Historians by Chris Paton | £10 |
| Tracing Your Jewish Ancestors: A Guide for Family Historians by Rosemary Wenzerul | £10 |
| Voices of Stepney by Dee Gordon | £10 |
| Watch Your Fingers by Alfred Gardner | £2.50 |
| Whitechapel 1600-1800: A Social History of an Early Modern London Inner Suburb by Derek Morris | £12.60 |
Maps
Coloured maps (boroughwide)
- Laurie and Whittle's New Plan of London with its Environs 1809-10
- Laurie and Whittle's New Map of London with its Environs, including the recent improvements 1819
- Metropolitan Borough of Bethnal Green
- Metropolitan Borough of Poplar
- Metropolitan Borough of Stepney
- Cruchley's New Plan of London to 1839
Price: £4 each
Godfrey's reproductions of Ordnance Survey maps
- Aldgate [1873-1894, double-sided map]
- Bermondsey and Wapping [1872; 1894; 1914]
- Bethnal Green and Bow [1870; 1894] [1914 is out of stock]
- Bow, Bromley and West Ham [1867; 1893; 1914]
- Deptford North [1868; 1894]
- Greenwich [1894]
- Greenwich and Isle of Dogs [1867; 1913]
- Hackney [1870; 1893; 1914]
- Poplar [both 1894 and 1914 are out of stock at present]
- Poplar and Canning Town [1867]
- Rotherhithe [1868; 1894; 1914]
- Shoreditch [1872; 1893; 1914]
- Stepney and Limehouse [1870; 1894; 1914 - these are all out of stock]
- The Tower and St. Katharine’s Docks [1873-1894, double-sided map - these are all out of stock]
- The Tower and St. Katharine Docks [1873]
- West India Docks [1867; 1914]
- West India Docks and Greenwich Marshes [1894]
- Whitechapel, Spitalfields and The Bank [1873; 1894; 1913]
Price: £2.50 each
Postcards and other items
| Title | Price |
| 14th Floor: A history of social housing in Tower Hamlets DVD | £1.99 |
| Friends of Island History Trust Calendar (published annually) | £9.00 |
| Music Is The Most Beautiful Language In The World: Yiddisher Jazz Vinyl LP | £20.00 |
| Whiffin's East End postcard set | £3.00 |