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Victorian Slum House

The Hardships of the Rag Trade

Tailor Russell and his family get to grips with the Victorian rag trade. Andy meanwhile discovers just how hard Victorian slum dwellers worked.

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Observe the social changes of the 1900s.
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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.
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Witness a dire economic depression heightened by the arrival of Irish migrants.
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Follow participants into a tenement to live and work as their East End ancestors once did.
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