On 24 January 1986, nearly 6,000 newspaper workers at Rupert Murdoch’s News International went on strike over plans to move print operations from Fleet Street to east London ...
Sometimes referred to as “Chelsea of the East,” Wapping in East London is an urban village with cobbled streets, coffee shops and historic riverside pubs. Though central to the city’s financial and ...
From Wapping: The Workers' Story (2020), dir. Christopher Reeves (all images courtesy News International Dispute Archive) Shortly afterward, the mogul bought a new plant in the Wapping neighborhood of ...