Mediaeval no-go zone, Victorian hell-hole, war-ravaged bomb site, 21st
century shining city, the most exciting area in one of the most exciting
cities in the world - the East End has often been London's strange alter
ego. Ed Glinert trawls through the strange stories, the crazed
characters, the violent vignettes, the dried-up docks, the imaginative
immigrants, the proud philanthropists to give a different history of the
most misunderstood sector of the capital, from the Princes in the Tower
to the Ratcliffe Highway murders; from Jack the Ripper to the Kray
twins; the Jewish ghetto to Banglatown; Cable Street to Canary Wharf;
Mahatma Gandhi to George Orwell.