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Who was charles booth

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a buisness man who conducted a survey on living conditions in london

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why did charles booth conduct his survey?

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booth wanted to see if the reports on london poverty were as bad as they said (he thought they were exagerated)

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how many reasearches did charles booth imploy

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80

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how did charles booth start his survey

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he defined the poverty line

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how did charles booth define the poverty line

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he said that poverty was less than £1 a week for a family of 5

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according to charles booth, how much of london was living in poverty?

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30%

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what did charles booth do once he had finished his research

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he published it into a series of books

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what was the name of charles booth’s series of books

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‘the life and labours of the people in london’

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when did charles booth publish his book

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1889

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what did charles booth hope to do with his research

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to change people’s veiws on poverty and prove that poverty was not a choice

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11
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what is a rookery

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a place with lots of doss houses that was often overcrowded

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give an example of a rookery

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flower and dean street

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how many doss houses were there on flower and dean street in 1871

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31

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how many people were there staying on flower and dean street in 1871

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902

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what is a doss house

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a really cheap lodging house

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how old were the doss houses in flower and dean street

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they dated back to 1600

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17
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how far apart were the houses in flower and dean street

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16 feet

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18
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give and example of poor sanitation in flower and dean street

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the toilets were buckets outside

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give 4 facts about how awful flower and dean street was

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  1. overcrowded
  2. really old buildings
  3. crowded buildings
  4. lack of sanitation
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how much did it cost for an evening stay in flower and dean street

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4 pence

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why did people not stay in flower and dean street for long

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they needed to move on to find work

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why was there lots of job insecurity in flower and dean street?

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most jobs paid poorly and were only for short periods of time

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give an example of a job that a person living on flower and dean street might have

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working on the docks

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give an example of how poorly paid people living on flower and dean street were

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they were paid as little aas 12 shillings a week

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25
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what was flower and dean street’s reputation?

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it had a reputation for attracting the workst thives, drunkards and prostitues

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why did flower and dean street habe a bad reputation?

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because of the poverty

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why did the doss houses on flower and dean street attract crimingals

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you could stay there to avoid detection from the police

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why did the low pay in flower and dean street increase crime

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many were forced to resort to stealing or prostituion to get by

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how did charles booth describe flower and dean street

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a vicious, semi criminal area

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why were people concerned about the levels of crime on flower and dean street

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they thought that honset people would be corrupted by the criminal underlcass

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where was the ten bells pub

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near flower and dean street

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what was the ten bells pub like

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it was rife with crime, but also provided a hot meal and warmth in the winter

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how did those living in doss houses veiw the ten bells pub?

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they saw it as a relief

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34
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why was drink a huge problem in whitechapel

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people were trying to forget their troubles

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35
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why did drink lead to increased crime

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it led people to commiting crimes but also made someone more likely to be the victim of a crime

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what kinds of people could you expect to find in the ten bells pub?

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theives and prostitues

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37
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what link does the ten bells pub have to the ripper murders?

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Mary Kelly was seen drinking there the night she was killed

38
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when was the poor law passsed

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1834

39
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what was the por law

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it stated that if somone could not afford a place of residence, they could go the the workhouse

40
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what were conditions like in the workhouses

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they were awful

41
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give 5 examples of the bad conditions in workhouses

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  1. families seperated
  2. strict routines
  3. awful food
  4. deliberatlly hard beds
  5. intensive labour
42
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why were workhouse conditions so bad

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they were deliberataly bad because people thought the poor would choose the workhouse over ‘hard work’

43
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what is a casual ward

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a workhouse where you only stay for short periods of time

44
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give 3 facts about the casual ward in whitechapel

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  1. inmates were not paid wage
  2. they were provided with a basic meal and bed
  3. they were maid to do boring and repetitive e.g picking oakum
45
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how did people veiw going into the workhouse

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it was seen as shameful

46
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why was going into the workhouse seen as shameful

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because it meant relying on charity

47
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what was the impact of shaming around workhouses

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it meant people would be more likely to turn to crime than to go into the workhouse

48
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what was anual death rate in the area where the peabody estate was built before it was built?

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50 people in every 1000 (this was double the london average)

49
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when was the peabody estate bought

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1876

50
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who built the peabody estate

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the peabody trust

51
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what was the peabody trust

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a charity set up by a rich american banker

52
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what happend in the peabody estate

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the slum was cleared and quality flats were built

53
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give 2 positives about the peabody estate

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  1. the walls were made of brick to prevent lice
  2. the residents shared bathrooms and kitchens
54
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when was the construction of the peabody esrate finished

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1881

55
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how many flats were there in the peabody estate

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287

56
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was rent affordable in the peabody estate

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no - and if you could not pay the rent you were immediately thrown out

57
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what was the impact of the peabody estate?

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it shows how improvements in one area lead to overcrowiding in another - this means that criminals and ordianry people are pusherd closer in society

58
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list the 4 factors that affected crime in whitechapel

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  1. lodging houses and pubs
  2. prostitues
    3.the residuum
    4.alchohol
59
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how did lodging houses and pubs affect crime in whitechapel?

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the overcrowding pushed ordinary people and criminals closer together

60
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why did prostitution affect crime in whitechapel

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it was not technically illegal, but it was a senistive subject for the police as it was seen as a social problem that needed to be monitored carefully

61
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how many prostitues were there in whitechapel in 1888

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1200

62
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how did the residuum affect crime in whitechapel

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the residuum were supposed to be people that were ‘born criminal’ and therefore unredeemable. this caused a lot of fear

63
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how did alchohol affect crime and whitechapel

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it made people more likely to commit crime, but it also made the more likely to be victims of crime

64
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give 4 groups that lived in whitechapel

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irish
jewish
socialist
anarchist

65
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why were jewish people attracted the whitechapel

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because of the availablitly of jobs and accommodation

66
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how many jewish people arrived in london in the 1880s looking for work?

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30,000

67
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give an example of a jewish community in whitechapel

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berner’s street

68
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why did jewish people protest against their working conditions

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they worked for longer hours for less pay

69
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when did the jewish people start to violently protest their working conditions

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1889

70
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how many jewish people took part in peaceful strikes to try and improve their working conditions

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10000

71
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give 3 reasons why jewish people where treated with suspicion by other residents of whitechapel

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  1. there was a languade barrier
  2. cultural differneces
  3. the media played on stereotypes
72
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how did the media affect jewish people in whitechapel?

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it made them more likely to be victims of hate crimes due the the media’s use of stereotypes

73
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how did jewish people in whitechapel try to solve their problems

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without involving the police

74
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why were jewish people in whitechapel suspicious of the police?

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they had been badly treated by police in russia and poland

75
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when did irish immigrtation the england start

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1800s

76
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what jobs were dominated by irish people

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dock workers

77
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what did increased irish immigration to england cuase

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‘Fenian Irish Nationalism’

78
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what was ‘Fenian Irish Nationalism’

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the beleif that ireland should become independant from britain

79
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why were irish people the target of suspicion in whitechapel

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because they were roman catholic

80
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when did a small bombing campaign started by Fenians take place

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1884

81
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give 2 examples of places that were bombed by Fenians

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gower street and trafalgar square

82
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how did socialism arrive in england

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it was brought over by people from eastern europe

83
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give an example of a socialist newspaper from whitchapel

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the ‘workers friend’

84
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who produced the ‘workers friend’

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jewish people on berner street

85
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who was worried about socialism in london

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rich factory owners

86
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what was the result of fear of socialism in whitechapel

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many were arrested or kept under surveilance

87
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when did anarchism begin to devlop in london

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the 1880s

88
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who brought anrachism to london

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russian immigrants

89
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how did the english press repsond to anarchism in whitechapel

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they whipped up fear

90
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how the the press create fear around anrachism in whitechapel

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they blamed unsolved murders on an ‘underground anarchist movement’

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