Starter quiz
- Which word describes a sailor, usually from Britain’s colonies across Africa and Asia?
- 'lascar' ✓
- What is the name of the event which led to significant Irish migration to places like Liverpool in the 1840s?
- 'the Great Famine' ✓
- What were experiences like for Irish migrants in Liverpool in the 19th century compared to other places in Britain?
- positive ✓
- negative
- neutral
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- Who was John Archer?
- the son of a lascar from Barbados and an Irish Catholic woman ✓
- London’s first elected black politician ✓
- a lascar from Barbados who was maried to an Irish Catholic woman
- Liverpool's first black mayor
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- Put the following events in chronological order.
- 1⇔Act of Union
- 2⇔Catholic Emancipation Act
- 3⇔greatest wave of Irish migrants to Britain
- 4⇔Irish Catholics were allowed to attend British universities
- What were Irish railway and canal workers known as?
- lascars
- ayahs
- navvies ✓
- Huguenots
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Exit quiz
- Which word describes an organised massacre of a particular ethnic group, usually used to refer to the persecution of Jewish migrants in the 1880s?
- 'pogrom' ✓
- When were Jewish people expelled from England?
- 1290 ✓
- 1655
- 1881
- 1859
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- In which decade was there a wave of Jewish migration to Britain from Eastern Europe?
- 1850s
- 1870s
- 1880s ✓
- 1890s
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- Which London neighbourhoods did Jewish people settle in during the 19th century?
- Spitalfields ✓
- Maryebone
- Whitechapel ✓
- Tooting
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- Complete the sentence: For Jewish migrants who settled in the East End, their experiences were largely __________.
- 'negative' ✓
- Which of the following were the main ways in which Jewish migrants impacted the East End?
- built environment ✓
- national economy
- local economy ✓
- language
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Key learning points
- In the 1880s, there was a wave of Jewish migration from Eastern Europe.
- The Jewish migrants who settled in the East End in the 1880s were poorer than those who had migrated in earlier periods.
- Most Jewish migrants experienced a lot of hostility, and were forced to find work in poor conditions with low wages.
- Although they did not have a large impact on the economy, Jewish migrants impacted the built environment in this period.
Common misconception
The Jewish migrants who settled in England in the medieval, early modern and industrial periods all migrated for similar reasons and had similar experiences.
In each period, there are marked differences in the reasons for Jewish migration but also in the experiences of Jewish migrants.
Keywords
Pogrom - an organised massacre of a particular ethnic group, usually used to refer to the persecution of Jewish migrants in the 1880s
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