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By AtheneNet History Desk On 4 October 1936, residents and anti-fascist demonstrators blocked a British Union of Fascists march through East London. Ninety years later,…
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In the immediate aftermath of the Second World War, London faced a residential catastrophe of unprecedented scale. With thousands of homes destroyed by aerial bombardment…
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