Immigration in Whitechapel

• Irish immigration

  • many people left Ireland be of the great potato famine in 1840
  • wanted to go to America but many ran out of money when reached London
  • worked a labourers building canals, roads, railways (navies)
• Irish immigrants

  tension because of irish terrorists called Fenians who wanted freedom from British empire

  bomb attack Clerkenwell prison 1867

  Dynamite Saturday 1885
• Jewish - Eastern Europe

  many Jews fled to england after Tsar Alexander II was assassinated

  they were blamed and being persecuted

  by 1888 in some parts of Whitechapel 95% were Jewish
• Jewish - Eastern Europe

  caused tensions because

  • England would shut shops on Sunday because of day of rest but jewish people wouldn’t and would make business while others lost it
  • they would help each other find jobs
  • worked in sweatshops and accepted very low wages wich made locals angry

  there were anti jewish newspaper’s

  • East end observer
  • pall mall gazette
  • Lloyds weekly news
• there were anti jewish newspaper’s

  • East end observer
  • pall mall gazette
  • Lloyds weekly news
• Anarchists

  in 1848 they attempted many revolutions around Europe and many escaped to Britain

  this made the government worried and set up specialised branches to spy on people who looked like they were from Eastern Europe