Victorian Slum House

"Victorian Slum House" takes viewers back to the British slums of the 1800s.

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    The 1900s

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    Observe the social changes of the 1900s.
  • The 1890s: asset-mezzanine-16x9
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    The 1890s

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    London recovers from an economic depression.
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    The 1880s

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    Learn why, despite high unemployment and intolerable conditions, people flock to London.
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    The 1870s

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    Witness a dire economic depression heightened by the arrival of Irish migrants.
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    The 1860s

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    Follow participants into a tenement to live and work as their East End ancestors once did.

About Victorian Slum House

"Victorian Slum House" takes viewers back to the British slums of the 1800s, where a group of modern-day families, couples, and individuals recreate life in London's East End, just as their forbearers once lived between 1860-1900.

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