Fitzrovia, The Other Side of Oxford Street: A Social History 1900-1950

This history spotlights Fitzrovia's enterprising twentieth-century immigrant workers. Ann Basu's family of Jewish tailors lived here before the Second World War, just where the BT Tower stands today. At that time the women's fashion trade and the new car industry were sweeping into Fitzrovia; Russian and German anarchists argued in its clubs; Indian revolutionaries practiced at its shooting range; and popular cafés like Lyons' transformed workers' social lives. The Jews of Fitzrovia and Soh...