18th & 19th century Britain

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1750

Britain largest slave trading nation

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1807

Slave trade abolished in Britain

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1830

Liverpool to Manchester railway opened

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1832

Reform act gave vote to more property owning men

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1833

Slavery in British Empire forbidden

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1846

Blight destroyed entire Irish potato crops

1 mil starved

2 mil migrate

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1847-48

Over 300,000 Irish migrants arrive in Liverpool

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1850

Karl Marx migrated to England

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1880-90

Over 100,000 Jewish refugees migrate to Britain

Fleeing Russian Empire persecution

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1888

Jack the Ripper murders