Ten storytellers.
Ten tables.
Ten minutes to hear a miniature talk.
Then a bell rings, and the audience move to another table to hear something new.
It’s like speed dating, but with tales less told from the history of Tower Hamlets!
‘The bookshop started as a stall in Whitechapel market in 1973.’
To celebrate the publication of Brick Lane Bookshop’s East End Book Catalogue, you’re invited to a unique event – a chance to hear many short talks about the history of Tower Hamlets by an eclectic selection of authors, social historians, and local people in the council chamber of the new Town Hall.
Featuring – (a provisional list only.)
- Sarah Wise – ‘The Blackest Streets.’
- Roger Mills – ‘The Queen Mother’s Rebel Cousin.’
- Julie Begum – ‘Dan Jones East End Portraits.’
- Alan Dein – ‘Cockney Rebels.’
- Chris Searle – ‘Issac and I.’
- Keith Jones – ‘The Stepney School Poetry Strike.’
- The Market Coffee House – ‘Spitalfields in One Building.’
- David Charnock – ‘A Tale From The Dark Side.’
- And perhaps – Vivvi Lachs – Bow Arts – Stefan and the Spitalfields book – Linda Wilkinson – Sylvia Pankhurst poems – etc….
Plus, your host, East End writer and alternative tour guide, Alan Gilbey
P.S. Free tickets for the entire Write Idea festival weekend can now be booked on the Idea Store’s website.
