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East End of London in popular culture

Index East End of London in popular culture

The East End of London in popular culture covers aspects of popular culture within the area of the East End of London. [1]

133 relations: A Kid for Two Farthings, Alan Moore, Albert Chevalier, Aldgate, Alexander Baron, Alf Garnett, All in the Family, Allied invasion of Italy, Anna May Wong, Arthur Morrison, BBC, Ben Jonson, Bethnal Green, Bluegate Fields, Boundary Estate, Bow, London, Brick Lane, Broken Blossoms, Call the Midwife, Charles Booth (social reformer), Charles Dickens, Chinatown, London, City of the Mind, Clash of Civilizations, Cockney, Costermonger, Dixon of Dock Green, Down and Out in Paris and London, E. K. Chambers, East End of London, EastEnders, Eastward Hoe, Edward Bond, Elstree Studios, Fagin, Family and Kinship in East London, Fence (criminal), For Queen and Country, From Hell (film), Fu Manchu, Gabriel Spenser, Gainsborough Pictures, Gentrification, Geoffrey Chaucer, George Orwell, Gus Elen, Half Moon Theatre, Henry Mayhew, Hertfordshire, Hoxton, ..., Hoxton Hall, Iain Sinclair, Ikey Solomon, Invasion of Normandy, Isle of Dogs, Israel Zangwill, Jack London, Jack the Ripper, Jack the Ripper in fiction, Jack Warner (actor), Joan Littlewood, Lime Grove Studios, Limehouse, Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, London Borough of Hackney, London Borough of Tower Hamlets, London Labour and the London Poor, Marie Lloyd, Mary Poppins (film), Michael Young, Baron Young of Dartington, Monica Ali, Music hall, Music hall songs, Oliver Twist, One Canada Square, Opium den, Original Sin (James novel), Oscar Wilde, Our Mutual Friend, P. D. James, Paddington Green Police Station, Passing On, Penelope Lively, Penny Dreadful (TV series), Peter Ackroyd, Piccadilly (film), Porter (carrier), Provisional Irish Republican Army, Psychogeography, Pub, Pub song, Ripper Street, Rookery, Salman Rushdie, Sam Weller (character), Sax Rohmer, Simon Blumenfeld, Soap opera, Sparrows Can't Sing, Spiv, Spivs (film), Steven Berkoff, Stratford, London, Ted Willis, Baron Willis, The Blue Lamp, The Guardian, The Isle of Dogs (play), The Long Good Friday, The Mysterious Dr. Fu Manchu, The Mystery of Dr. Fu-Manchu, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, The People of the Abyss, The Pickwick Papers, The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Prioress's Tale, The Satanic Verses, Theatre Royal Stratford East, Theatre Workshop, Thomas Burke (author), Till Death Us Do Part, Walford, Walthamstow, Wapping, Warren Mitchell, Waste management, West End theatre, West Ham, West Ham United F.C., Whitechapel, Whitechapel (TV series), Wilton's Music Hall, Wolf Mankowitz, Yuppie. Expand index (83 more) »

A Kid for Two Farthings

A Kid for Two Farthings is a 1953 novel by the British writer Wolf Mankowitz, based on the author's experiences of growing up within a Jewish community in London's East End.

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Alan Moore

Alan Moore (born 18 November 1953) is an English writer known primarily for his work in comic books including Watchmen, V for Vendetta, The Ballad of Halo Jones and From Hell.

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Albert Chevalier

Albert Chevalier born Albert Onésime Britannicus Gwathveoyd Louis Chevalier; (21 March 186110 July 1923), was an English music hall comedian, singer and musical theatre actor.

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Aldgate

Aldgate is an area of Central London, England, within the City of London.

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Alexander Baron

Alexander Baron (–) was a British author and screenwriter.

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Alf Garnett

Alfred Edward "Alf" Garnett is a fictional character from the British sitcom Till Death Us Do Part and its follow-on and spin-off series Till Death... and In Sickness and in Health.

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All in the Family

All in the Family is an American sitcom TV-series that was originally broadcast on the CBS television network for nine seasons, from January 1971 to April 1979.

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Allied invasion of Italy

The Allied invasion of Italy was the Allied amphibious landing on mainland Italy that took place on 3 September 1943 during the early stages of the Italian Campaign of World War II.

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Anna May Wong

Anna May Wong (born Wong Liu Tsong, January 3, 1905 – February 3, 1961) was an American actress, considered to be the first Chinese American Hollywood movie star, as well as the first Chinese American actress to gain international recognition.

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Arthur Morrison

Arthur George Morrison (1 November 18634 December 1945) was an English writer and journalist known for his realistic novels and stories about working-class life in London's East End, and for his detective stories, featuring the detective Martin Hewitt.

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster.

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Ben Jonson

Benjamin Jonson (c. 11 June 1572 – 6 August 1637) was an English playwright, poet, actor, and literary critic, whose artistry exerted a lasting impact upon English poetry and stage comedy.

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Bethnal Green

Bethnal Green is a district in Greater London, England, in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets and part of the historic East End in East London.

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Bluegate Fields

Bluegate Fields (also known as Blue Gate Fields) was one of the worst slum areas that once existed just north of the old, east London docks during the Victorian era.

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Boundary Estate

The Boundary Estate is a housing development, formally opened in 1900, in the East End of London, England.

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Bow, London

Bow is a neighbourhood and parish in Greater London England, in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets.

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Brick Lane

Brick Lane (Bengali: ব্রিক লেন) is a street in east London, England, in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets.

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Broken Blossoms

Broken Blossoms or The Yellow Man and the Girl, often referred to simply as Broken Blossoms, is a 1919 American silent drama film directed by D.W. Griffith.

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Call the Midwife

Call the Midwife is a BBC period drama series about a group of nurse midwives working in the East End of London in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

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Charles Booth (social reformer)

Charles James Booth (30 March 1840 – 24 November 1916) was an English social researcher and reformer known for his innovative work in documenting working class life in London at the end of the 19th century.

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Charles Dickens

Charles John Huffam Dickens (7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic.

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Chinatown, London

Chinatown is an ethnic enclave in the City of Westminster, London, bordering the Soho to its north and west, Theatreland to the south and east.

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City of the Mind

City of the Mind is a 1991 novel written by Penelope Lively.

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Clash of Civilizations

The Clash of Civilizations is a hypothesis that people's cultural and religious identities will be the primary source of conflict in the post-Cold War world.

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Cockney

The term cockney has had several distinct geographical, social, and linguistic associations.

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Costermonger

Costermonger, coster, or costard is a street seller of fruit and vegetables, in London and other British towns.

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Dixon of Dock Green

Dixon of Dock Green was a BBC television series about daily life at a London police station, with the emphasis on petty crime, successfully controlled through common sense and human understanding.

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Down and Out in Paris and London

Down and Out in Paris and London is the first full-length work by the English author George Orwell, published in 1933.

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E. K. Chambers

Sir Edmund Kerchever Chambers, (16 March 1866 – 21 January 1954), usually cited as E. K. Chambers, was an English literary critic and Shakespearean scholar.

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East End of London

The East End of London, usually called the East End, is the historic core of wider East London, east of the Roman and medieval walls of the City of London, and north of the River Thames.

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EastEnders

EastEnders is a British soap opera created by Julia Smith and Tony Holland which has been broadcast on BBC One since 1985.

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Eastward Hoe

Eastward Hoe or Eastward Ho! is an early Jacobean-era stage play written by George Chapman, Ben Jonson, and John Marston.

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Edward Bond

Edward Bond (born 18 July 1934) is an English playwright, theatre director, poet, theorist and screenwriter.

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Elstree Studios

Elstree Studios is a generic term which can refer to several current and defunct British film studios and television studios based in or around the towns of Borehamwood and Elstree in Hertfordshire.

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Fagin

Fagin is a fictional character in Charles Dickens's novel Oliver Twist.

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Family and Kinship in East London

Family and Kinship in East London was a 1957 sociological study of an urban working class tight-knit community, and the effects of the post-war governments' social housing policy leading to their rehousing.

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Fence (criminal)

A fence, also known as a receiver, mover, moving man, or thiefspawn, is an individual who knowingly buys stolen goods in order to later resell them for profit.

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For Queen and Country

For Queen and Country is a 1988 British-American crime drama film co-written and directed by Martin Stellman and starring Denzel Washington.

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From Hell (film)

From Hell is a 2001 American mystery horror film directed by the Hughes brothers and loosely based on the graphic novel From Hell by Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell about the Jack the Ripper murders.

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Fu Manchu

Dr.

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Gabriel Spenser

Gabriel Spenser, also spelled Spencer, (c. 1578 – 22 September 1598) was an Elizabethan actor.

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Gainsborough Pictures

Gainsborough Pictures was a British film studio based on the south bank of the Regent's Canal, in Poole Street, Hoxton in the former Metropolitan Borough of Shoreditch, London.

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Gentrification

Gentrification is a process of renovation of deteriorated urban neighborhoods by means of the influx of more affluent residents.

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Geoffrey Chaucer

Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1343 – 25 October 1400), known as the Father of English literature, is widely considered the greatest English poet of the Middle Ages.

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George Orwell

Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950), better known by his pen name George Orwell, was an English novelist, essayist, journalist and critic whose work is marked by lucid prose, awareness of social injustice, opposition to totalitarianism and outspoken support of democratic socialism.

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Gus Elen

Ernest Augustus Elen (22 July 1862 – 17 February 1940) was an English music hall singer and comedian.

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Half Moon Theatre

The Half Moon Theatre Company was formed in 1972 in a rented synagogue in Alie Street, Aldgate, in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets.

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Henry Mayhew

Henry Mayhew (25 November 1812 – 25 July 1887) was an English social researcher, journalist, playwright and advocate of reform.

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Hertfordshire

Hertfordshire (often abbreviated Herts) is a county in southern England, bordered by Bedfordshire to the north, Cambridgeshire to the north-east, Essex to the east, Buckinghamshire to the west and Greater London to the south.

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Hoxton

Hoxton is an area of East London, part of the London Borough of Hackney, England.

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Hoxton Hall

Hoxton Hall is a community centre and performance space in Hoxton, at 130 Hoxton Street, in the London Borough of Hackney.

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Iain Sinclair

Iain Sinclair FRSL (born 11 June 1943) is a Welsh writer and filmmaker.

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Ikey Solomon

Isaac "Ikey" Solomon (1787? – 1850) was an English criminal who became an extremely successful receiver of stolen property.

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Invasion of Normandy

The Western Allies of World War II launched the largest amphibious invasion in history when they assaulted Normandy, located on the northern coast of France, on 6 June 1944.

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Isle of Dogs

The Isle of Dogs, locally referred to as the island, is a geographic area made up of Millwall, Cubitt Town, Canary Wharf and parts of Blackwall, Limehouse and Poplar.

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Israel Zangwill

Israel Zangwill (21 January 18641 August 1926) was a British author at the forefront of cultural Zionism during the 19th century, and was a close associate of Theodor Herzl.

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Jack London

John Griffith "Jack" London (born John Griffith Chaney; January 12, 1876 – November 22, 1916) was an American novelist, journalist, and social activist.

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Jack the Ripper

Jack the Ripper is the best-known name for an unidentified serial killer generally believed to have been active in the largely impoverished areas in and around the Whitechapel district of London in 1888.

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Jack the Ripper in fiction

Jack the Ripper, the notorious serial killer who terrorized Whitechapel in 1888, features in works of fiction ranging from gothic novels published at the time of the murders to modern motion pictures, televised dramas and video games.

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Jack Warner (actor)

Jack Warner, OBE (born Horace John Waters, 24 October 1895 – 24 May 1981) was a British film and television actor.

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Joan Littlewood

Joan Maud Littlewood (6 October 1914 – 20 September 2002) was an English theatre director, who trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, and is best known for her work in developing the Theatre Workshop.

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Lime Grove Studios

Lime Grove Studios was originally a film studio complex built by the Gaumont Film Company in 1915, but it was later purchased by the BBC who used it for television broadcasts from 1949 to 1991.

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Limehouse

Limehouse is a district in east London, in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets.

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Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels

Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels is a 1998 British crime comedy film written and directed by Guy Ritchie, produced by Matthew Vaughn and starring an ensemble cast featuring Jason Flemyng, Dexter Fletcher, Nick Moran, Jason Statham, Steven Mackintosh, Vinnie Jones, and Sting.

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London Borough of Hackney

The London Borough of Hackney is a London Borough in Inner London, United Kingdom.

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London Borough of Tower Hamlets

The London Borough of Tower Hamlets is a London Borough in East London which covers much of the traditional East End.

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London Labour and the London Poor

London Labour and the London Poor is a work of Victorian journalism by Henry Mayhew.

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Marie Lloyd

Matilda Alice Victoria Wood (12 February 1870 – 7 October 1922), professionally known as Marie Lloyd; was an English music hall singer, comedian and musical theatre actress.

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Mary Poppins (film)

Mary Poppins is a 1964 American musical-fantasy film directed by Robert Stevenson and produced by Walt Disney, with songs written and composed by the Sherman Brothers.

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Michael Young, Baron Young of Dartington

Michael Young, Baron Young of Dartington (9 August 1915 – 14 January 2002) was a British sociologist, social activist and politician who coined the term "meritocracy".

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Monica Ali

Monica Ali (born 20 October 1967) is a Bangladeshi-born British writer and novelist.

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Music hall

Music hall is a type of British theatrical entertainment that was popular from the early Victorian era circa 1850 and lasting until 1960.

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Music hall songs

Music hall songs were sung in the music halls by a variety of artistes.

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Oliver Twist

Oliver Twist; or, the Parish Boy's Progress is author Charles Dickens's second novel, and was first published as a serial 1837–39.

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One Canada Square

One Canada Square, sometimes called Canary Wharf Tower or simply Canary Wharf, is a skyscraper in Canary Wharf, London.

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Opium den

An opium den was an establishment where opium was sold and smoked.

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Original Sin (James novel)

Original Sin is a 1994 detective novel in the Adam Dalgliesh series by P. D. James.

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Oscar Wilde

Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 185430 November 1900) was an Irish poet and playwright.

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Our Mutual Friend

Our Mutual Friend, written in the years 1864–65, is the last novel completed by Charles Dickens and is one of his most sophisticated works, combining savage satire with social analysis.

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P. D. James

Phyllis Dorothy James, Baroness James of Holland Park, (3 August 1920 – 27 November 2014), known professionally as P. D. James, was an English crime writer.

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Paddington Green Police Station

Paddington Green Police Station is located in Paddington, central London, England.

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Passing On

Passing On is a novel written by Penelope Lively and published in 1989.

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Penelope Lively

Dame Penelope Margaret Lively (born Penelope Margaret Low, 17 March 1933) is a British writer of fiction for both children and adults.

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Penny Dreadful (TV series)

Penny Dreadful is a British-American horror drama television series created for Showtime and Sky by John Logan, who also acts as executive producer alongside Sam Mendes.

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Peter Ackroyd

Peter Ackroyd, (born 5 October 1949) is an English biographer, novelist and critic with a particular interest in the history and culture of London.

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Piccadilly (film)

Piccadilly is a 1929 British silent drama film directed by E. A. Dupont, written by Arnold Bennett and starring Gilda Gray, Anna May Wong, and Jameson Thomas.

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Porter (carrier)

A porter, also called a bearer, is a person who carries objects or cargoes for others.

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Provisional Irish Republican Army

The Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA or Provisional IRA) was an Irish republican revolutionary organisation that sought to end British rule in Northern Ireland, facilitate the reunification of Ireland and bring about an independent socialist republic encompassing all of Ireland.

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Psychogeography

Psychogeography is an exploration of urban environments that emphasizes playfulness and "drifting".

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Pub

A pub, or public house, is an establishment licensed to sell alcoholic drinks, which traditionally include beer (such as ale) and cider.

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Pub song

In English popular culture, the "traditional" pub songs typified by the Cockney "knees up" mostly come from the classics of the music hall, along with numbers from film, the stage and other forms of popular music.

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Ripper Street

Ripper Street is a British TV series set in Whitechapel in the East End of London and starring Matthew Macfadyen, Jerome Flynn, and Adam Rothenberg.

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Rookery

A rookery is a colony of breeding animals, generally birds.

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Salman Rushdie

Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie (born 19 June 1947) is a British Indian novelist and essayist.

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Sam Weller (character)

Sam Weller is a fictional character in The Pickwick Papers, the first novel by Charles Dickens, and is the character that made Dickens famous.

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Sax Rohmer

Arthur Henry Sarsfield Ward (15 February 1883 – 1 June 1959), better known as Sax Rohmer, was a prolific English novelist.

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Simon Blumenfeld

Simon Blumenfeld (25 November 1907 – 13 April 2005) was a British Jewish columnist, author, playwright, theatre critic, editor and communist.

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Soap opera

A soap opera or soaper is an ongoing, episodic work of fiction presented in serial format on television, radio and in novels, featuring the lives of many characters and focusing on emotional relationships to the point of melodrama.

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Sparrows Can't Sing

Sparrows Can't Sing is a 1963 British film.

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Spiv

In the United Kingdom, the word spiv is slang for a type of petty criminal who deals in illicit, typically black market, goods.

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Spivs (film)

Spivs is a 2004 British crime film directed by Colin Teague, who also co-wrote the screenplay along with screenwriters Gary Young, and Mike Loveday.

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Steven Berkoff

Leslie Steven Berkoff (né Berks; born 3 August 1937) is an English character actor, author, playwright and theatre director.

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Stratford, London

Stratford is a town and parish in London, in the London Borough of Newham.

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Ted Willis, Baron Willis

Edward Henry Willis, Baron Willis (13 January 1914 - 22 December 1992) was a British playwright, novelist and screenwriter who was also politically active in support of the Labour Party.

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The Blue Lamp

The Blue Lamp is a 1950 British police drama, directed by Basil Dearden and starring Jack Warner as veteran PC Dixon, Jimmy Hanley as newcomer PC Mitchell, and Dirk Bogarde as hardened criminal Tom Riley.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Isle of Dogs (play)

The Isle of Dogs is a play by Thomas Nashe and Ben Jonson which was performed in 1597.

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The Long Good Friday

The Long Good Friday is a British gangster film starring Bob Hoskins and Helen Mirren.

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The Mysterious Dr. Fu Manchu

The Mysterious Dr.

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The Mystery of Dr. Fu-Manchu

The Mystery of Dr.

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The Mystery of Edwin Drood

The Mystery of Edwin Drood is the final novel by Charles Dickens.

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The People of the Abyss

The People of the Abyss (1903) is a book by Jack London about life in the East End of London in 1902.

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The Pickwick Papers

The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club (also known as The Pickwick Papers) was Charles Dickens's first novel.

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The Picture of Dorian Gray

The Picture of Dorian Gray is a philosophical novel by Oscar Wilde, first published complete in the July 1890 issue of Lippincott's Monthly Magazine.

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The Prioress's Tale

The Prioress's Tale (The Prioresses Tale) follows The Shipman's Tale in Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales.

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The Satanic Verses

The Satanic Verses is Salman Rushdie's fourth novel, first published in 1988 and inspired in part by the life of Muhammad, the prophet of Islam.

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Theatre Royal Stratford East

The Theatre Royal Stratford East is a large theatre in Stratford in the London Borough of Newham.

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Theatre Workshop

Theatre Workshop is a theatre group noted primarily for its long-serving director, Joan Littlewood.

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Thomas Burke (author)

Thomas Burke (29 November 1886 – 22 September 1945) was a British author.

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Till Death Us Do Part

Till Death Us Do Part is a British television sitcom that aired on BBC1 from 1965 to 1975.

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Walford

Walford is a fictional borough of east London in the BBC soap opera EastEnders.

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Walthamstow

Walthamstow is the largest district of the London Borough of Waltham Forest in north-east London.

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Wapping

Wapping is a district in London Docklands, England, in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets.

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Warren Mitchell

Warren Mitchell (born Warren Misell; 14 January 1926 – 14 November 2015) was an English actor.

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Waste management

Waste management or waste disposal are all the activities and actions required to manage waste from its inception to its final disposal.

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West End theatre

West End theatre is a common term for mainstream professional theatre staged in the large theatres of "Theatreland" in and near the West End of London.

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West Ham

West Ham is an area of East London, located east of Charing Cross.

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West Ham United F.C.

West Ham United Football Club is a professional football club based in Stratford, East London, England.

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Whitechapel

Whitechapel is a district in the East End of London, England, in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets.

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Whitechapel (TV series)

Whitechapel is a British television drama series produced by Carnival Films, in which detectives in London's Whitechapel district dealt with murders which replicated historical crimes.

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Wilton's Music Hall

Wilton's Music Hall is a Grade II* listed building, built as a music hall and now run as a multi-arts performance space in Graces Alley, off Cable Street in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets.

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Wolf Mankowitz

Cyril Wolf Mankowitz (7 November 1924 – 20 May 1998) was an English writer, playwright and screenwriter.

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Yuppie

"Yuppie" (short for "young urban professional" or "young, upwardly-mobile professional") is a term coined in the early 1980s for a young professional person working in a city.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_End_of_London_in_popular_culture

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