WHITECHAPEL

1887

Trafalgar Square - riot against police = working class people felt that the police was working agaisnt them

13th, Nov

Bloody Sunday = riots to support the IRA ( Irish republican Army ) which wanted violence against the UK, to force it to withdraw from Ireland

1880s

Whitechapel Housing:

• Lodging houses - paid a nightly fee to stay = ¼ of Whitechapel population lived there

• Very overcrowded

• Huge population

• Work Houses introduced for poor people

• After 1880s - Barnado houses where introduced

1881

Peabody Estate

1840s

Many Irish migrated to london partially due to the potato famine:

• Most worked as navvies and dockers

• Had a reputation for being drunk and disorderly and associated with terrorism - fenians

1848

A wave of attempted revolutions across Europe:

• Many of these revolutionist were situated in East London

• Anarchists = opposed government

• Socialists = wanted the end of capitalism

• Both movement scared authorities, as it gained support from many citizen of whitechapel

1880s

Many Eastern European immigrants, mostly russian and polish Jews:

• Fled persecution after Tsar Alexanders II’s assassination ( 1881)

• High levels of poverty means they had to stick together = caused segregation of groups

• 1888 95% of whitechapel’s population was Jewish