Political ideas

Immigration

Many Irish and Eastern European migrants settled in Whitechapel because they were able to find jobs, cheap places to live and community

Irish migrants

Settled in Whitechapel from the 1840’s

Established Irish lodging houses

Dominated jobs at the docks

Characterised as being drunk and violent

Jewish migrants

1881-1891 = 30,000 migrants arrived to avoid prosecution

Found it hard to integrate due to language barriers and cultural differences

Lived in self-segregated communities (ghettos)

Target of prejudice and ant-Semitism

Distrusted by police

Socialism

All property and wealth owned by community and not individuals

Introduced by Jewish migrants

British politicians and media saw it as a threat

Anarchism

Belief in the abolition of government and movement towards organising society by voluntary or cooperative means

Developed by Russian revolutionaries

British politicians and media saw it as a threat