Reformers and Radicals

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William and Catherine Booth provided practical help for those in need at the People’s Mission Hall at 188 Whitechapel Road (c 1870)

Rudolf Rocker and his family lived at Dunstan House, Stepney Green

As a young man, Max Levitas was involved with the Battle of Cable Street (1936) – a landmark episode in East End history, commemorated by the mural near St George’s in the East

The Bengali words for powerful, fearless and courageous were featured on this Brick Lane mural of Mala Sen by Jasmin Sehra.