Writers on Boxing

Tag: whitechapel

  • #44: ‘Sparring for Luck’ by Stephen ‘Johnny’ Hicks

    #44: ‘Sparring for Luck’ by Stephen ‘Johnny’ Hicks

    ‘Sparring for Luck’ by Stephen ‘Johnny’ Hicks is the confluence of what might be the three main areas of my cultural life over the past ten years: Socialism, poetry and boxing. This book tells the life story of Stepney-born Stephen Hicks, fortuitously found and published by The Tower Hamlets Arts Project. This is a story…

  • #24: ‘The Whitechapel Whirlwind’ by John Harding

    #24: ‘The Whitechapel Whirlwind’ by John Harding

    ‘The Whitechapel Whirlwind’ by John Harding is the story of British-Jewish boxer Jack ‘Kid’ Berg. As with my previous post about Teddy Baldock, this book is a fantastic account of British boxing at a time where boxing gyms were found in numbers throughout the working-class areas of London, and other British cities, and boxing cards…