It is said that Vladimir Lenin and a young Joseph Stalin met in the Crown and Anchor pub ( now known as The Crown Tavern ) on Clerkenwell Green when the latter was visiting London in 1903.

The traditional core districts of the East End are Bethnal Green, Whitechapel, Spitalfields, Stepney, Wapping, Limehouse, Poplar, Clerkenwell, Aldgate, Shoreditch, Millwall, Hackney, Hoxton, Bow and Mile End.

Oliver Cromwell owned a house on Clerkenwell Close, just off the Green.

The name is something of a historical relic — Clerkenwell Green has had no grass for over 300 years.

In Charles Dickens's Oliver Twist, Clerkenwell Green is where Fagin and the Artful Dodger induct Oliver into pickpocketing amongst shoppers in the busy market once held there.

Indeed, Dickens knew the area well and was a customer of the Finsbury Savings Bank on Sekforde Street, a street linking Clerkenwell Green to St John Street.

Clerkenwell Green has historically been associated with radicalism, from the Lollards in the 16th century, the Chartists in the 19th century and communists in the early 20th century.

In 1902, Vladimir Lenin moved the publication of the Iskra ( Spark ) to the British Social Democratic Federation at 37a Clerkenwell Green, and issues 22 to 38 were indeed edited there.

At that time Vladimir Lenin resided on Percy Circus, less than half a mile north of Clerkenwell Green.

In the 1920s and 1930s, 37a Clerkenwell Green was a venue for Communist Party meetings, and the Marx Memorial Library was founded on the same site in 1933.

It is said that Vladimir Lenin and a young Joseph Stalin met in the Crown and Anchor pub ( now known as The Crown Tavern ) on Clerkenwell Green when the latter was visiting London in 1903.

When Lenin was in London ( 1902 – 1903 ) the newspaper was edited from a small office at 37a Clerkenwell Green, EC1, with Henry Quelch arranging the necessary printworks.

** The other runs from Kensal Green, under Bayswater and along Oxford Street, then via Clerkenwell and Bethnal Green to Wick lane.

It opened in 1933 at 37a Clerkenwell Green, formerly home to many radical organisations, and locale of an important publishing operation.

* Andrew Rothstein, A House on Clerkenwell Green, 1966

It lies immediately north of the City of London and Clerkenwell, west of Shoreditch, and south of Islington and City Road.

He spent time in England ( John of England knighted him at Clerkenwell Priory in 1213 ) before succeeding to the kingdom on the death of his father on 4 December 1214, being crowned at Scone on 6 December the same year.

The Monastic Order of the Knights Hospitallers of St John of Jerusalem had its English headquarters at the Priory of Clerkenwell.

Before Clerkenwell became a built-up area, it had a reputation as a resort a short walk out of the city, where Londoners could disport themselves at its spas, of which there were several, based on natural chalybeate springs, tea gardens and theatres.

In 2011 an anti-cuts protest march departed from Clerkenwell and ended with a rally at Trafalgar Square demanding trade union rights, human rights and international solidarity.

* GraceLife London at Woodbridge Chapel, for many years known as Clerkenwell Medical Mission

The London Fire Brigade initially despatched four fire appliances and a turntable ladder, with units from A24 Soho Fire Station being the first on the scene at 19: 42, followed shortly by colleagues from C27 Clerkenwell, A22 Manchester Square and A23 Euston.

Soon after his appointment, the office and its stores were transferred to a dissolved Dominican monastery at Blackfriars, having previously been housed at Warwick Inn in the city, the London Charterhouse, and then at the priory of St. John of Jerusalem in Clerkenwell, to which a return was made after Cawarden's death.

To the north of the Hospitallers was a Priory of Augustinian Canonesses ; the Priory of St. Mary at Clerkenwell.

Nightclubs such as Fabric and Turnmills were the pioneers of the night life in the area, patronised on weekday nights by the many workers in nearby Holborn, Clerkenwell and the City ; at weekends, the night clubs and bars with late licences draw people into the area on their own merit.

He was the son of Joseph Birch, a coffee-mill maker, and was born at Clerkenwell.

He was born at Clerkenwell, London, 19 October 1610, in the house of his maternal grandfather, Sir John Poyntz.

Ackroyd's novel fictitiously places the house in the Clerkenwell section of London rather than at Mortlake-reinforcing many of the novel's themes ( radicalism ; sacred london ; Dee as ' Cockney visionary ') but inaccurately representing actual events from Kelley's association with Dee.

His first grocery business appears to be as ‘ Harrod & Co. Grocers ’ at 163 Upper Whitecross Street, Clerkenwell, E. C. 1., in 1832.

* 1868, 26 May: Michael Barrett was executed at Newgate Prison for the Fenian bombing at Clerkenwell, the last public hanging in the UK.

Dekker published no more work after 1632, and he is usually associated with the " Thomas Dekker, householder " who was buried at St. James's in Clerkenwell that year.

" He married privately and in contravention of the 1772 Royal Marriages Act at St. John's Church, Clerkenwell, London on 8 January 1847 to Sarah Fairbrother ( 1816 – 12 January 1890 ), the daughter of John Fairbrother, a servant in Westminster.

According to writings of the period, Thomas Heywood had been living in Clerkenwell since 1623 and it was there, at St. James's Church that he was buried eighteen years later.

A blue plaque on the Factory where Maxim invented and produced the gun is to be found in Hatton Garden at the junction with Clerkenwell Road in London.

Docwra died in May, 1527 at Clerkenwell and was buried in the priory church.

" The old Church of James, son of Zebedee | St. James, Clerkenwell ,"

It occupied an historic building in St. John Street formerly known as Crosskeys House and Cross-Keys Inn, which has in the past been the headquarters of the Communist Party of Great Britain and was an inn and coach house to the village of Clerkenwell for several hundred years.

By the end of the 18th century, however, Barnsbury, like other parts of Islington, was being regarded as attractive part-rural suburbs by the comparatively wealthy people wanting to move out of the cramped City of London and industrial Clerkenwell.

Clerkenwell was also the location of three prisons: the Clerkenwell Bridewell, Coldbath Fields Prison ( later Clerkenwell Gaol ) and the New Prison, later the House of Detention, notorious as the scene of an attempted prison break in 1867 by Fenian rebels who sought to blow up part of the building.

After the Second World War Clerkenwell suffered from industrial decline and many of the premises occupied by the engineering, printing publishing and meat and food trades ( the last mostly around Smithfield ) fell empty.

But by 1650 he was again living in Clerkenwell, London.

Among the cases on which he reported was the Clerkenwell bombing by the Fenians in 1867.

Its original termination point was at New River Head near Clerkenwell, Islington, close to the current location of Sadler's Wells theatre — where water from the river was used to flood a large tank to stage an Aquatic Theatre at the beginning of the 19th century .< ref name = VicWeb >< cite > Victorian Theatres in London accessed 14 September 2009 </ ref > Today by following the New River Path it is possible to walk almost the whole length of the New River from its source between Hertford and Ware to its current destination in Stoke Newington, Hackney.

File: View of the south front of the St John's Gate Clerkenwell by Thomas Hosmer Shepherd. jpg | Steel engraving by Thomas Hosmer Shepherd, 1829-1831

File: St John's Gate Clerkenwell by John Wykeham Archer. jpg | Watercolour by John Wykeham Archer, 1842

File: Saint John's Gate Clerkenwell the main gateway to the Priory of Saint John of Jerusalem 1880. jpg | Photograph by Henry Dixon, 1880

In response, de Castelain and Currie were allowed by the so-called Chevalier de Sainte-Croix to form the Council of the English Langue, which was inaugurated on 12 January 1831, under the executive power of a man who called himself " Count " Alexander Mortara, and headquartered at the " Auberge of St. John, St. John's Gate, St. John's Square, Clerkenwell ".

The Priory of St. John of Jerusalem at Clerkenwell, London in 1661, by Wenceslaus Hollar

It was created by the London Government Act 1899 from the parishes of Charterhouse, Clerkenwell, Glasshouse Yard, St Luke and St Sepulchre.

The borough replaced local government structures created by the Metropolis Management Act 1855: Clerkenwell and St Luke's had previously been administered by separate parish vestries ; the extra-parochial Liberty of Glasshouse Yard and St Sepulchre had formed part of the Holborn District Board of Works ; Charterhouse, also extra-parochial, had no vestry.

The building was built as the headquarters of Clerkenwell Vestry, and had been officially opened on 14 June 1895 by Lord Rosebery, the Prime Minister.

* by bus-Farringdon Road ( 63 ), Clerkenwell Road ( 55, 243 )

Pentonville was part of the ancient parish of Clerkenwell, and was incorporated into the Metropolitan Borough of Finsbury by the London Government Act 1899.