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The East End Vernacular Lectures

October 25, 2017
by the gentle author

Spitalfields Market by John Allin 1974

In coming weeks, I shall be undertaking a lecture tour of the capital giving illustrated lectures on the subject of my new book EAST END VERNACULAR, Artists who painted London’s East End streets in the 20th century, showing the paintings and telling the stories that lie behind their creation.

My presentation includes work by John Allin, S. R. Badmin, Pearl Binder, Dorothy Bishop, James Boswell, Roland Collins, Alfred Daniels, Anthony Eyton, Doreen Fletcher, Geoffrey Fletcher, Barnett Freedman, Noel Gibson, Charles Ginner, Lawrence Gowing, Harry T. Harmer, Elwin Hawthorne, Rose Henriques, Dan Jones, Nathaniel Kornbluth,Leon Kossoff, James Mackinnon, Cyril Mann, Jock McFadyen, Ronald Morgan, Grace Oscroft, Peri Parkes, Henry Silk, Harold Steggles, Walter Steggles & Albert Turpin.

7:30pm Thursday 2nd November at Nunnery Gallery, Bow, as part of  First Thursday at The Working Artist, The East London Group exhibition. Click here to book.

1pm Wednesday 8th N0vember at Dillons Bookshop, Gower St. Click here to book. You can also book by telephone 020 7636 1577 or buy your ticket at the bookshop.

7pm Friday 17th November at Idea Store, Whitechapel, opening the Write Idea Festival 2017. Click here to book.

Please note the lecture at Wanstead Tap on 1st November is already sold out

Click here to order a copy of EAST END END VERNACULAR for £25

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  1. October 25, 2017

    Hope you use much of that lecture material in subsequent postings of the Gentle Author’s observations of East End life. Donna Barnes in Brooklyn, New York

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