Jack the Ripper

Background
mid-19th century, East End of London
Irish immigrants, Jewish refugees
Whitechapel becomes overcrouded
Social unrest, crime, nativism, racism, depresion

In the mid-19th century, Britain experienced an influx of Irish immigrants who swelled the populations of the major cities, including the East End of London. From 1882, Jewish refugees fleeing pogroms in Tsarist Russia and other areas of Eastern Europe emigrated into the same area.…