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Victorian Slum House

Living in a Doss-House

John and Maria spend their first night in the doss-house and John understands the disappointment Victorian Irish immigrants must have felt when arriving in the East End.

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The 1900s
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Observe the social changes of the 1900s.
The 1890s
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London recovers from an economic depression.
The 1880s
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Learn why, despite high unemployment and intolerable conditions, people flock to London.
The 1870s
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Witness a dire economic depression heightened by the arrival of Irish migrants.
The 1860s
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Follow participants into a tenement to live and work as their East End ancestors once did.
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