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History Workshop Journal 2007 64(1):347-353; doi:10.1093/hwj/dbm049
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© The Author 2007. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of History Workshop Journal, all rights reserved.

The Genesis of East End Underworld: Chapters in the Life of Arthur Harding by Raphael Samuel

Stan Newens


  Abstract

East End Underworld: Chapters in the Life of Arthur Harding is a key text on the history of London’s East End. It is a testimony to the brilliance of Raphael Samuel as a historian, as well as a memorial to a key figure in the seamy side of East London life from the late Victorian to the interwar period. Fortunately the vast majority of East Enders had a different pattern of life.

Had death not cut him short Samuel would undoubtedly have produced a number of other fascinating volumes, one of which might have been the companion volume to East End Underworld, promised in his Prefatory Note. Raphael assured me that this would tell the story of the origins of the book. It is sad in the extreme that Raphael never fulfilled his intention of writing a companion volume. In its absence, this article is an attempt to fill in some of the background.


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