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The East End from the inside

John Claridge’s intimate photographs from the 1960s capture a lost world of wonder and possibility.

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London Life: the photographs that capture the changing face of London over seven decades

Over 70 years, Colin O'Brien has recorded change and continuity in the lives of Londoners, creating a social record…

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The Spitalfields Nippers show the East End before the welfare state

Horace Warner's photographs of the Spitalfields Nippers shows what happened to some of society's most vulnerable - and reminds…

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