Everything Happens in Cable Street!

An event to mark 75 years from a famous battle and to celebrate the lives of east end communities

Tuesday 11 October 2011    10am-4pm

£15 / £10 concessions

London Metropolitan Archives, 40, Northampton Road,  London, EC1R 0HB

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This day-long event includes talks, presentations and a historical walk. In the morning Bernard Kops, celebrated poet, dramatist and novelist, Roger Mills, oral historian and writer about East London and David Rosenberg, teacher, tour guide and author, and will present the history of Cable Street and its place in the life of the East End’s embattled communities, through research, images, vivid personal memories and anecdotes.

In the afternoon David will lead a walk from Aldgate to Cable Street, telling the dramatic story of how the East End countered the threat from Mosley's British Union of Fascists 75 years ago.

Roger Mills is the author of Everything Happens in Cable Street, and David Rosenberg is author of Battle for the East End: Jewish Responses to fascism in the 1930s, both of which will be published in September 2011 by Five leaves Publications. Bernard Kops is the author of more than 40 plays for stage and radio including one on the Battle of Cable Street.

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