Projects & Publications
A curated list of projects and publications relating to East London, showcasing research by scholars at Queen Mary, University of London, and beyond.
Bagwell S (2011). The Role of Independent Fast-Food Outlets in Obesogenic Environments: A Case Study of East London in the UK. Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, Volume 43, Issue 9, 2217-2236
Begum S (2023). From Sylhet to Spitalfields: Bengali Squatters in 1970s East London. Lawrence Wishart: London
Blunt A, Burrell K, Endfield G, Lawrence, M, Nightingale E, Owens A, Waldock J, and Wilkins A (2022). At Home in London during COVID-19: Policy Recommendations and Key Findings, Stay Home Stories. Queen Mary University of London, London
Blunt A, Ebbensgaard C, and Sheringham O (2021). ‘The living of time’: entangled temporalities of home and the city. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 46: 149-62
Bothongo P, Jitlal M, Parry E et al (2022). Dementia risk in a diverse population: A single-region nested case-control study in the East End of London. The Lancet, Volume 15
Brown G (2007). The production of Gay and Queer Space in East London. PHD Thesis, Kings College London
Brown T (2013). The making of urban ‘healtheries’: the transformation of cemeteries and burial grounds in late-Victorian East London. Journal of Historical Geography, 42, 12-23
Burchiellaro O (2021). ‘There’s nowhere wonky left to go’: Gentrification, queerness and class politics of inclusion in (East) London. Gender Work Organ, 28: 24–38
Bussi G, Whitehead P, Nelson R, Bryden J, Jackson C, Hughes A, Butler A, Landström C, Peters H, Dadson S, Russell I (2022). Green infrastructure and climate change impacts on the flows and water quality of urban catchments: Salmons Brook and Pymmes Brook in north-east London. Hydrology Research 1, 53 (4): 638–656
Chiang C Y, Zhong R, Ding J, Wood J, Bee S and Jaber M (2024). AllTheDocks road safety dataset: A cyclist’s perspective and experience
Rennie J (2013) 'East End Lives.' History Workshop Online
Geiringer D and Owens A (2022). Anglicanism, Race and the Inner City: Parochial Domesticity and Anti-Racism in the Long 1980s. History Workshop Journal 94, 223–245
Gleeson F (2022). Stories from London’s Docklands: Heritage, Community, and the Arts Encounters, Deindustrialization, and the End of Empire. Journal of British Studies, 61(4), pp. 970–995
Halima Begum (2004). Commodifying Multicultures: Urban Regeneration and the Politics of Space in Spitalfields. PhD thesis, Queen Mary University of London
Harvey G, Henshaw A, Koch R, Monteith W, and Stansfeld K (2023). BlueGreenE17
Hodge C (2023). Holy Trinity Bow Church in the 19th Century A Hub for Mile End’s New Urban Middle Class and Established Elite. The Heritage, Community, and the Arts & Arts Centre at Holy
Trinity Church Bow and Queen Mary University of London
Hussey K (2021). Imperial Bodies in London: Empire, Mobility and the Making of British Medicine, 1800-1918. University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh, PA
Inchley M (2020). ‘Why are we doing this and who is it for?’: Youth theatre conversations with Liz Moreton and Conrad Murray at Battersea Arts Centre. Contemporary Theatre Review, 30:3, 390-397
James M (2014). Whiteness and loss in outer East London: tracing the collective memories of diaspora space. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 37(4), 652–667
Levon E, Sharma D, Ilbury C (2022). Speaking Up: Accents and Social Mobility. Report for the Sutton Trust
Lily West R (2023). Dockers in Poplar: The legacy of the London County Council’s Replanning of Poplar, East London. Urban Planning 8, no.1
Mayo S and McAvinchey C (2013). Wild, Wild Women: Ten Years of Intergenerational Arts Practice at The Women’s Library led by Magic Me in collaboration with Mulberry School for Girls and local, older women. Magic Me: London
McAvinchey C (2016). Rooms with a View: Disrupting and Developing Narratives of Community through Intergenerational Arts Practice. Magic Me: London
McCarthy K M, Evans B G, and Mahon M (2013). Acquiring a second language in an immigrant community: the production of Sylheti and English stops and vowels by London Bengali speakers. Journal of Phonetics, 41, 344-358
Moore H L, and Woodcraft S (2019). Understanding Prosperity in East London: Local Meanings and “Sticky” Measures of the Good Life. City & Society, 31: 275-298
Murray A, Durrani F, Winstanley A, et al (2024). Understanding lived experiences and perceptions of resilience in black and South Asian Muslim children living in East London: a qualitative study protocol. BMJ Open
Owens A and Jeffries N (2016). People, Places, and Spaces and things on the move: domestic material culture, poverty and mobility in Victorian London. International Journal of Historical Archaeology, 20(4), 804-27
Owens A, John E, and Blunt A (2017). At Home with Collaboration: Building and Sustaining a Successful University–Museum Partnership. In: Shiach, M., Virani, T. (eds) Cultural Policy, Innovation and the Creative Economy. Palgrave Macmillan: London
Shamra D, and Fox D (2017). The Language of London and Londoners. In Smakman D and Heinrich P (eds), Urban Sociolinguistics Around the World The City As a Linguistic Process and Experience. London: Routledge
Sheringham O, Ebbensgaard C, and Blunt A (2023) ‘Tales from other people's houses’: home and dis/connection in an East London neighbourhood. Social and Cultural Geographies 24: 719-37
Shortell T (2020). The Politics of Visibility: Gentrification and Immigration in East London. In KraseJ and DeSena J (eds) Gentrification around the World, Volume II. Palgrave Studies in Urban Anthropology. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham
Sultan, N and Swinglehurst D (2023). Living with polypharmacy: A narrative interview study with older Pakistanis in East London. BMC Geriatrics 23, 746
Tawfik SS, Thomas BR, Kelsell DP, Grigg J and O'Toole EA (2023). Dermatology Quality of Life Index scores in Bangladeshi patients with atopic eczema and their families in East London. British Journal of Dermatology, Volume 188, Issue 4, 524–532
Verdini G and Dean C (2022). Climate Urbanism in the Post-pandemic World: Mapping Vulnerabilities and Exploring Community Activism in East London. In Giorgi E, Cattaneo T (eds) Design for Vulnerable Communities. The Urban Book Series. Springer
Wan YI, Apea VJ, Dhairyawan R, Puthucheary ZA, Pearse RM, Orkin CM, Prowle JR (2022). Ethnic disparities in hospitalisation and hospital-outcomes during the second wave of COVID-19 infection in east London. Sci Rep 12(1):3721
Watt P (2013). ‘It’s not for us’: Regeneration, the 2012 Olympics and the gentrification of East London. City, 17(1), 99–118
Yusoff K, Holden K, and Laing Ebbensgaard C (2022). Planetary Portals: “Dreaming in Continents” from East London to the Cape in the colonial praxis of emergence and extraction. Gropius Bau Journal