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LIFE'S
A RIOT
WITH SPY VS SPY
Billy
Bragg
(1983) |
The
singer-songwriter and activist Billy Bragg was born
as Stephen William Bragg in Barking in 1957.
His first album Life's a Riot with Spy vs Spy
included one of his best-known songs: A New England.
He
accompanies his music career with politicial activism in which
he also looked at what it meant to be English in an increasingly
multi-cultural society, something he described in a book he
wrote as progressive patriotism.
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| London
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The
County of London was formed in 1889 from parts of the ancient counties
of Middlesex, Kent and Surrey, with
the City of London remaining an independent body.
In 1965 Greater London was formed,
taking in the rest of Middlesex (which no longer existed as a county)
together with parts of Essex and Hertfordshire and further areas of
Kent and Surrey.
Greater
London is made up of 13 Inner and 19 Outer London boroughs together
with the City of London.
Barking
and Dagenham once lay in Essex
and is today one of the 19 boroughs making up Outer London. It lies
on the eastern edge of the capital bordering the River Thames to its
south.
London Boroughs |
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and Danes |
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Anglo-Saxon Kings
Danish Kings |
The
borough once lay in Essex which once formed the kingdom of the East
Saxons,
later becoming part of the kingdom of Wessex.
The East Saxon kingdom reached from the river Thames in the south
(on the other side of which lay the kingdom of Kent) to the river
Stour in the north (which separated the kingdom from that of the East
Angles).
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