Books and Pamphlets for Sale

Buy books and pamphlets on local history. Maps, postcards, tote bags, calendars and other items are also available. These make great gifts or souvenirs for anyone interested in the history of London’s East End.

You can buy publications onsite. Contact us before your visit to check items are in stock. Postal orders are subject to postage and packaging fees. Email us for further details localhistory@towerhamlets.gov.uk.

List of publications on sale at Tower Hamlets Local History Library and Archives

After You've Gone [catalogue for the Alan Dein exhibition] by Tower Hamlets Local History Library and Archives]	£1.00
All My Yesterdays by Patrick Hanshaw	£1.99
Anglican Church on the Isle of Dogs 1854-2004 by Eve Hostettler	£4.99
Annual Hop London to Kent by Hilary Heffernan	£12.99
Are You Still Circumcised? East End Memories by Harold Rosen	£9.99
Arthur Morrison: The Novelist of Realism in East London and Essex by Stan Newens and Chris Pond	£4.00
Battle for the East End: Jewish Responses to Fascism in the 1930s by David Rosenberg	£9.99
The Battle Of Cable Street 1936 by The Cable Street Group	£5.99
Bengalis in London’s East End by Ansar Ahmed Ullah and John Eversley	£14.99
Bethnal Green by Gary Haines	£11.99
A Bethnal Green Memoir: Recollections Of Life In The 1930S-1950s by Derek Houghton	£14.99
Black Londoners 1880-1990 by Susan Okokon	£9.99
Black Londoners: A History by Susan Okokon	£9.99
Bow and Bromley-by-Bow by Gary Haines	£12.99
Cable ; No. 15 The Jewish East End Celebration Society	£3.95
Captain Bligh in Wapping 1785-1790 by Madge Darby and John Douglas Tarby	£7.00
A Century of the East End by Rosemary Taylor and Christopher Lloyd	£9.99
Changing Places: A short history of the Mile End Old Town… by N. Glendinning et al.	£2.25
A Child's History of the Isle of Dogs: Migration Continuity and Change by Eve Hostettler and Philippa Dodds	£1.00
Colonel Thomas Rainsborough: Wapping's Most Famous Soldier by Lincoln S. Jones	£0.50
Columbia Road (East London Photo Stories 7) by Johanna Neurath	£12.99
A Corner In The Kingdom Of God : an account of some persons and things in St. Mark’s, Whitechapel by Revd. Charles Voysey	£3.99
Couldn’t Afford the Eels: Memories of Wapping 1900-1960 by Martha Leigh	£12.99
Doreen Fletcher: Paintings by The Gentle Author	£20.00
The East End At War by Rosemary Taylor and Christopher Lloyd	£9.99
East End Past by Richard Tames	£15.95
An East End Story: A Tale of Friendship by Alfred Gardner	£1.99
East End Vernacular: Artists Who Painted London's East End Streets in the 20th Century by the Gentle Author	£20.00
East London Record ; No.10	£1.50
East London Record ; No.11	£1.80
East London Record ; No.12	£1.90
East London Record ; No.13	£1.80
East London Record ; No.14	£2.10
East London Record ; No.15	£2.25
East London Record ; No.16	£2.25
East London Record ; No.17	£2.50
East London Record ; No.18	£2.50
East London Record ; No.19	£2.75
East London Record ; No.6	£0.95
East London Record ; No.7	£0.95
East London Record ; No.8	£1.15
East London Record ; No.9	£1.30
East London Suffragettes by Rosemary Taylor	£9.99
East of the City: The London Docklands Story by James Bentley	£5.00
Good Morning, Brothers! by Jack Dash	£0.99
Guilty and Proud of It!: Poplar’s Rebel Councillors and Guardians 1919-25 by Janine Booth	£12.95
The Hamlets and The Tower: One Thousand Years of Tower Hamlets History by Tower Hamlets Local History Library and Archives	£1.00
In Letters of Gold: Story of Sylvia Pankhurst and the East London Federation of the Suffragettes in Bow by Rosemary Taylor	£4.95
The Island at War: Memories of War-time Life on the Isle of Dogs, East London by Eve Hostettler	£5.00
Jewish Lives: Britain 1750-1950 by Melody Amsel-Arieli	£12.99
Judge Jeffreys and the Ivy Case by Madge Darby	£0.50
The Little Book of the East End by Dee Gordon	£9.99
London's East End: A 1960s Album by Steve Lewis	£14.99
London's East End: A Guide for Family and Local Historians by Jonathan Oates	£11.99
London's Sailortown 1600-1800 by Derek Morris and Ken Cozens	£12.60
Memoirs of an Old East-Ender by Arthur Ernest Newens	£4.50
Minnie Lansbury: Suffragette, Socialist, Rebel Councillor By Janine Booth	£12.99
An Outline History of the Isle of Dogs by Eve Hostettler	£1.00
A pictorial history of Victoria Park, London E3: Illustrated with Postcards and Contemporary Photographs by Philip Mernick	£4.99
Piety and Piracy: The History of Wapping and St. Katherine's by Madge Darby	£9.95
The Poplars: What life was like on the WesternFront in the First World War as experienced by the 1/17th London [ Poplar & Stepney ] Battalion, the East End Regiment by Ron Wilcox	£7.50
Power Writers: Discovering and Celebrating Five African Writers by Phillis Wheatley, Ukawsaw Gronniosaw, John Marrant, Olaudah Equiano, Quobna Ottobah Cugoano	£1.00
The Romance of Bethnal Green by Cathy Ross	£9.99
Secret Whitechapel by Louis Berk and Rachel Kolsky	£14.99
Seven Parishioners of Stratford Bow by Michael Peet	£5.00
Ship to Shore: The Autobiography of a Royal Naval Signalman 1889-1981 by Sidney Hills	£1.00
Spitalfields Life: In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London by The Gentle Author	£10.00
Stepney in Peace and War: The Paintings of Rose L. Henriques by Tower Hamlets Local History Library and Archives	£1.00
Stories from the Island by the Docklands Group	£0.50
Streets of London: The Booth Notebooks – East by Jess Steele and Mike Steele	£12.00
The East End In Colour 1960 - 1980 by David Granick	£15.00
The Isle Of Dogs: Before The Big Money by Mike Seaborne	£15.00
Through the door: New Poetry from London's Archives. by Archives for London	£2.50
The Tower Hamlets Connection: A Biographical Guide by Harold Finch	£3.99
Tracing Your East End Ancestors: A Guide for Family Historians by Jane Cox	£14.99
Tracing Your Huguenot Ancestors: A Guide for Family Historians by Kathy Chater	£12.99
Tracing Your Irish Family History on the Internet: A Guide for Family Historians by Chris Paton	£12.99
Tracing Your Jewish Ancestors: A Guide for Family Historians by Rosemary Wenzerul	£12.99
Voices of Stepney by Dee Gordon	£12.99
Walks in Dickens London: Discover London’s Docklands by Sue Gane	£1.00
Watch Your Fingers by Alfred Gardner	£5.00
Whitechapel 1600-1800: A Social History of an Early Modern London Inner Suburb by Derek Morris	£12.60
Whitechapel Boy: A Reading of the Poetry of Isaac Rosenberg by Chris Searle	£11.40