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Shabna Begum: From Sylhet to Spitalfields: Bengali Squatters in 1970s East London

Shabna Begum: From Sylhet to Spitalfields: Bengali Squatters in 1970s East London

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Lawrence & Wishart Ltd, 2023, softcover, 232 pages, 21.6 x 14 cm

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.