The Victorian Slum — Season 1, Episode 3: The 1880s
Reality • 60 min • 1 season, 5 episodes • ★ 8.4/10
Episode synopsis
Despite high unemployment and intolerable conditions, people flock to London, desperate for work. When curious upper-class visitors are permitted to visit the slum as tourists, the participants realize how precarious their situation truly is.
About The Victorian Slum
In the heart of the modern East End of London, a Victorian slum has been recreated and a group of 21st-century people are moving in. Michael Mosley joins them to tell the extraordinary story of how the Victorian East End changed our attitude to poverty forever.