Brick Lane Circle Brick Lane Circle The Brick Lane Circle is a voluntary organisation based in Tower Hamlets, London, which organises talks, seminars and conferences on subjects relating to Bangladesh and Bangladeshis abroad. Its events are free and open to all members of the public. Since 2010, it has organised an annual Bengal History Week based at the Whitechapel Idea Store (library) each October. Its East India company project has been one of its more popular topics. This hosted talks by notable historians of the East India Company such as Nick Robins. At the same time it also worked with such experts to
Brick Lane (2006 film) and despite not knowing English, he settled down to work and 50 years later is still there. In addition, a Huguenot church turned into a Methodist chapel, then into a synagogue, and in 1976 became the Great London Mosque (Brick Lane Mosque). The Huguenots faced riots from jealous native textile workers. Kops witnessed the Battle of Cable Street, in which Oswald Mosley's fascists were finally taken on by his people. The Bangladeshis in the 1970s endured the attentions of the BNP and National Front, and responded with a sit-in that saw them off. The story was of tolerance, overcoming prejudice