William J. Fishman

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William J. Fishman is the author of several books about the history of the East End of London. He is concerned with the social, political, and economic life in the slums of the East End (where he still works and teaches).

He was made an honorary fellow of Queen Mary, University of London in 1999. He is currently Visiting Professor to the Centre for the Study of Migration at Queen Mary.

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  • East End 1888: Life in a London Borough Among the Laboring Poor (1989)
  • Streets of East London (1992) (with photographs by Nicholas Breach)
  • East End Jewish Radicals 1875-1914 (2004)

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