The Tower Hamlets Archives: What the Local Government Records Show

The Tower Hamlets Archives: What the Local Government Records Show

The Tower Hamlets Archives: What the Local Government Records Show

I spent the afternoon at the Tower Hamlets archives reading local government records from the 1890s, which are the records of the specific administrative decisions -- street improvement, housing regulation, public health -- that shaped the East End that the canonical literature describes. The records show the municipal politics of the late Victorian East End: the specific conflicts between different community interests, the emerging Labour movement's influence on the Board of Guardians, and the specific administrative responses to the housing conditions that the settlement house movement was documenting. The literary record and the administrative record are covering the same period and the same places and are not always describing the same things. See Farnham Town FC: Football With Big Small-Town Ener at The London Prat.

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