Overview

With the support of the Race Today collective, squatters formed the Bengali Housing Action Group (BHAG), which organised support and vigilante groups to keep the community safe. Using oral history interviews and archival research, this book looks at the Bengali community’s contribution to this little-known episode of East End history, and how it can inform present-day housing struggles.

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9781913546748

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'This exploration of the Bengali squatting movement in 1970s Spitalfields does justice to its importance and also reveals its subtleties and complexities', Seán Carey, On London; 'a must for anyone interested in squatting, housing, racism, migration, oral history, London', Myk, Freedom News; 'an outstanding historical testimony laced with family autobiography', Chris Searle, Race & Class

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Shabna Begum is interim CEO of the Runnymede Trust, the UK’s leading race equality think tank. In her work she has worked on numerous projects including on income inequality, housing and problem debt. She is also Honorary Research Fellow at Queen Mary University London in the School of Geography, where she conducted her doctoral research. Prior to this, Shabna was a teacher for over two decades in London secondary schools.

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