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The 1860s

The 1860s

Season 1 Episode 1
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The 1870s

The 1870s

Season 1 Episode 2
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The 1880s

The 1880s

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The 1890s

The 1890s

Season 1 Episode 4
54:12
The 1900s

The 1900s

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53:39
Slum Tourism

Slum Tourism

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Victorian Slum House

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Follow participants as they move into an 1860s tenement made up of sparse rooms, a shared water pump and outhouses. They seek to make a living by matchbox making, wood turning and the rag trade, work once done by their impoverished forebears.

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London recovers from an economic depression.
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Learn why, despite high unemployment and intolerable conditions, people flock to London.
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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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