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Migration during the Industrial Revolution

Scott Reeves considers the experiences of foreign-born immigrants to England during the Industrial Revolution

Source A Emigrants leaving Ireland, an illustration from a history book published in 1868

Had you walked the streets of London or another British city at the end of the nineteenth century, you might have been surprised by the diversity of the people you met. You would have seen skin tones of every colour, heard a multitude of languages and smelled foods from around the world.

AQA Britain: migration, empires and the people, c.790 to the present day

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