Mediaeval no-go zone, Victorian hell-hole, war-ravaged bomb site, 21st century shining city, the most exciting area in one of the most exciting cities in the world the East End has often been London's strange alter ego. Ed Glinert trawls through the strange stories, the crazed characters, the violent vignettes, the dried-up docks, the imaginative immigrants, the proud philanthropists to give a different history of the most misunderstood sector of the capital, from the Princes in the Tower to the Ratcliffe Highway murders; from Jack the Ripper to the Kray twins; the Jewish ghetto to Banglatown; Cable Street to Canary Wharf; Mahatma Gandhi to George Orwell.

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Marc Zakian is a writer and photographer whose work has appeared in newspapers and magazines across the world. His travel writing has appeared in The Telegraph, The Guardian, The Times and The Evening Standard, as well as Condé Nast Traveller and Wizz Magazine. He has written and contributed images for several guide books, including the Insight guides to southern Italy and Rome. He edits and photographs The Guide magazine, a national publication produced by the British Guild of Tourist Gu