Blogs in August 2016

Rodinsky’s Room 15th August 2016

David Rodinsky lived above a synagogue in the heart of the old Jewish East End of London, and sometime in the late 1960s he disappeared. His room, a chaos of writings, annotated books and maps, gramophone records and clothes,...

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Diamond Street 1st January 1970

Second book in a trilogy featuring London streets. Intimately connected to the area both personally (her family run a jewellery business there) and professionally (as an artist archivist of London’s streets), Rachel Lichtenstein is uniquely placed to explore the...

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On Brick Lane 1st January 1970

An assemblage of stunning characters who have populated this much written about street in London. Jewish jewellers, workers at the old Truman Brewery, market workers, artists and writers who live around the street.

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