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"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.

Edward VII's coronation banquet finds its way into the slum.
Observe the social changes of the 1900s.
Observe the social changes of the 1900s.
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Observe the social changes of the 1900s.
London recovers from an economic depression.
Learn why, despite high unemployment and intolerable conditions, people flock to London.
Witness a dire economic depression heightened by the arrival of Irish migrants.
Follow participants into a tenement to live and work as their East End ancestors once did.
Extras
The slum residents go on a day trip to the countryside.
Russell's had enough of Victorian tailoring, it's time for a couple of pints.
London recovers from an economic depression.
Andy loses his livelihood when the doss-house is condemned.
Learn why, despite high unemployment and intolerable conditions, people flock to London.
The slum dwellers experience the Victorian trend for slum tourism.
The Potters sell sheep trotters on the streets of Spittlefields.
Witness a dire economic depression heightened by the arrival of Irish migrants.
John and Maria bed down in the Victorian doss-house
The Howarths take on extra help and Victorian child labor is food for thought.
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