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A-C
 
Aldgate
 
Besant, Annie
 
Bethnal Green
 
Bethnal Green Museum
 
Black people
 
Blackwall
 
Blackwall Pier
 
Boards of Guardians
 
Borough of Poplar See Poplar (Metropolitan Borough of)
 
Borough of Stepney See Stepney (Metropolitan Borough of)
 
Bow
 
Bowles, John
 
Brick Lane
 
Bromley-by-Bow See Bromley Saint Leonard
 
Bromley Saint Leonard
 
Brothels See Prostitution
 
Bryant & May See Match making
 
Burglaries See Crime
 
Cemeteries
 
Charities
 
Charlie Brown of Limehouse
 
Chinese
 
Cholera
 
Christianity
 
Churches
See also names of specific churches
 
Civil War See English Civl War
 
Coal-heavers
 
Coal-whippers See Coal-heavers
 
Colet, Sir Henry
 
Commercial Road
 
Crime
 
Culpeper, Nicholas
 
D-I
 
Danish Church
 
Dock-workers
 
Docks
 
East India Company
 
East Smithfield
 
Electricity supply
 
Emigration
 
English Civil War
 
Germans
 
Glass-making
 
Hackney
 
Health
 
Holy Trinity Church, Bethnal Green
 
Homerton
 
Homosexuality
 
Houndsditch
 
Housing estates
 
Huguenots
 
Industry
See also names of specific industries
 
Irish
 
Isle of Dogs
 
Ivie, Lady Theodosia
 
J-M
 
Jack the Ripper
 
Jago See Old Nichol
 
Jamrach's
 
Jay, Reverend Osborne
 
Jews
 
Jute manufacture
 
King Edward VII Memorial Park
 
Kingsley Hall
 
Lascars
 
Lester, Doris and Muriel
 
Liberties of the Tower
Libraries
 
Limehouse
 
Markets
 
Marriage
 
Match making
 
Matchgirls' Strike of 1888 See Match making
 
Mathematical Society, See Spitalfields
 
Metropolitan Borough of Poplar See Poplar (Metropolitan Borough of)
 
Metropolitan Borough of Stepney See Stepney (Metropolitan Borough of)
 
Mile End Old Town
 
Millwall
 
Missions
 
Motherhood (Includes illegitimacy)
 
Murder
 
N-Q
 
Neale, Thomas
 
Norton Folgate
 
Old Artillery Ground
 
Old Ford
 
Old Nichol
 
Opium dens
 
Oxford House
 
Parks
 
Peasants' Revolt, 1381
 
"Penny gaffs"
 
Poor Law
 
Policing (Includes watchmen)
 
Poplar (Metropolitan Borough)
 
Poplar (parish)
 
Poplar Board of Guardians
 
Poplar Chapel See St. Matthias Church, Poplar
 
Poverty
 
Precinct of Well Close
 
Prince's Square
 
Prisons
 
Prostitution
 
Quakers
 
R-S
 
 
Ragged schools
 
Railways
 
Raine, Henry
 
Ratcliff
 
Ratcliff Highway
 
Roads
 
Roman Road market
 
Sailors
 
St. Bartholomew the Less Church, Bethnal Green
 
St. Dunstan
 
St. Dunstan's Church, Stepney
 
St. George's-in-the-East
 
St. Katharine's
 
St. Mary's Church, Spital Square
 
St. Mary's Church, Whitechapel
 
St. Matthias Church, Poplar
 
Schools See Ragged schools
 
Settlements
See also names of specific settlements
 
Shadwell
 
Ships and shipbuilding
 
Shoreditch
 
Siege of Sidney Street
 
Silk weaving
 
Slums
 
Smallpox
 
Society of Friends See Quakers
 
Spitalfields
 
Stepney (Metropolitan Borough)
 
Stepney Church See St. Dunstan's Church, Stepney
 
Stepney Green
 
Strangers' Home for Asiatics
 
Stratford Bow See Bow
 
Strikes
 
Sugar bakeries
 
Swimming baths
 
Synagogues
 
T-Z
 
Temperance
 
Theatres
 
Tiger Bay
 
Toynbee Hall
 
Wapping
 
Wash-houses
 
Waxwork shows
 
Weaving
 
Well Close, Precinct of
 
White Horse Street
 
Whitechapel
 
Whitechapel Mount
 
Workhouses