It's 1945 and, as the troops begin to return home, the inhabitants of London try to put their lives back together. For 25-year-old Millie, a nurse and midwife, the jubilation at the end of the war is short-lived as she tends to the needs of the those around her.

This title presents the memoirs of a girl born into a close-knit East End family in 1911.

Nancy and Terry have suffered terrible abuse at the hands of their father. Finding their way to St Saviour's Children's Home should mean safety. But little Terry is terribly damaged by his experiences, and the carers face challenges they could never have foreseen.

Best friends Becky, Bernie and Rose are working hard to establish themselves in 1930s Spitalfields. Becky, the daughter of a Jewish tailor, wants to become a nurse, but her father has more traditional plans for her. Aching to travel the world, Bernie feels trapped by her vast family of poor Irish dock workers. And then there is Rose. Tiny and thin, she lives with her drunken mother and a selection of surrogate fathers who brutalise them both. As Europe...

This final book in Jennifer Worth's memories of her time as a midwife in London's East end brings her story full circle. As always there are heartbreaking stories such as the family devastated by tuberculosis and the strange life of a ship's woman.

The East End of London, 1940. Life is tough for the Ten Bells Street girls. Best friends from childhood, the three of them now find themselves scattered across London, bearing the weight of war apart. Exiled from the East End, Rose has created a new life for herself and now works as a dancer in a club in Soho, but she soon finds that life in the West End isn't any easier than what she left behind. With the arrival of the war, Becky has finally found...

'Better Late Than Never' is the extraordinary story of how a man born into poverty in London's East End went on to find stardom late in life when he was chosen to be head judge on BBC One's 'Strictly Come Dancing'.

In this memoir Pat describes her years as the landlady of The Rising Sun pub. Vividly evoking the colourful East End community in the 1960s, Pat captures the changes that swept through society at that time.

In the years leading up to and after the Second World War, many women left school at 14 to work in the bustling factories of London's East End. Of all the factories that lined the docks, it was at Tate & Lyle's where you could earn the most generous wages and enjoy the best social life. 'The Sugar Girls' recalls memories of this era.

This oral history of London's East End spans the period after the First World War to the upsurge of prosperity at the start of the 60s. Piers Dudgeon has listened to dozens of people who remember this time to record their real-life experiences of what it was like before it was fashionable to buy a home in Docklands.