Victorian Irish and the Notorious East End Slums of 19th Century London

In the 1800s Irish people fled poverty and hunger to live in the slums of East End London. Here, the streets were a rabbit-warren of dark alleys and hidden courts flanked by lofty and decaying wooden houses into which crowded peddlers, costermongers and labourers, often more than one family to a room. Find out how they lived in this first-hand account by Victorian journalist Henry Mayhew.

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