Shabna Begum is head of research at the Runnymede Trust and author of ‘From Sylhet to Spitalfields: Bengali Squatters in 1970s East London’ (Lawrence Wishart, 2023).
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Published in: Home: FeatureWhat Brick Lane’s Bengali squatters can teach us about gentrificationFifty years after the squatters’ movement in east London, the Bengali community is once again under threat