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London’s East End

Paul Short and Dan Silverman consider London’s East End as a historic environment, focusing in particular on its significance during the Second World War

Source A London firemen tackling a blazing warehouse following the bombing of London’s port facilities, 1940

1 How useful are Sources A and B for a historian investigating why the East End was a target for air raids?

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