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Victorian Slum House
The 1890s
Season 1
Episode 4
Enter the 1890s, when mass manufacturing and social reform offer a bit of hope for some of the residents, while others are plagued by a water shortage that dashes hopes for a promising laundry business.
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Observe the social changes of the 1900s.
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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.