Wednesday March 26, 2014, Lifestyle 37

Lifestyle

Step back in time to learn about political struggles

Discover east Londons hidden past as historian and teacher David Rosenberg launches his summer programme of tours around the city.

East End Walks draws on the lives that wove their way through the capitals streets and unsung heroes of the past come to life through Davids narrative of political and social history.

He said: Its not about the famous people. People will hear stories about the lives of ordinary citizens doing extraordinary things to change their circumstances due to the challenges they faced.

He said that east Londons suffrage movement was particularly radical and militant, ghting not just

for the vote but to improve working class womens rights.

David said: Even with all the building going on at the moment, there are still indications of trade union activists, campaigners, health community development it is not at all focusing on the domestic role.

In a way its optimistic. Also I will be able to show people the physical remnants of that history.

David was inspired by historian Professor Bill Fishman whose books showed how east London was portrayed in historical circles.

He went on one of Bills walks and decided to continue spreading knowledge of the area.

David, whose grandparents came from

Poland and Ukraine as Jewish immigrants in the early 1900s, said: I have been doing the walks in a serious systematic way for about seven years.

I have had a very long- standing connection with the East End through family, my work and studies.

He said: About 30 years ago I went on Bills walk. When a lot of other historians were researching events that happened far away, he was saying to his colleagues that we have all this local history.

Davids next walk will be the Radical Jewish East End tour on Sunday, April 6.

It starts at 11am and will cover important landmarks and people.

To book a place, visit eastendwalks.com. Above, David Rosenberg. Inset, a London Jewish Bakers trade union banner

David Rosenberg on one of his walks

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