Describe two features of Whitechapel's Peabody Estate. 4 marks
No wall plaster, just bricks
this combated termites living in the walls
built to house the poor, but they could not afford rent in the estate
used to be flower and dean street, a rookery, until it was sold to build the peabody estate
peabody estate not built with the poor in mind
this caused a mass displacement of poorer people, growing other slums
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How useful are Sources A and B for an inquiry into the standard of housing for the people of Whitechapel during this time? explain your answer using both sources a and b, as well as your own knowledge. 8 marks
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B
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The provenance is useful because I can see that the artist is french, showing that he may not be used to scenes like this, as he probably did not grow up in witechaple
The provenance is useful because I can see that the image was drawn in 1882. this shows that the ripper murders had not started yet, so Whitechapel was probably seen less by outside newspapers. this means that the illustration is probably one of few pieces of evidence of the suffering in Whitechapel given to the outside world
The content is useful because I can tell a large amount of the people in the picture are children. this shows that most childeren did not go to school, and would be forced to work to support their families instead
The content is useful because I can see that the childeren in the image are mostly wearing over sized, adults clothing. this shows that many families had to either steal clothing from others or pass on hand me downs in order to cloth childeren
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PUK
The content is useful because i can tell from the quote "By doing this, we were paying for our broth and hammock for the night" that if a worker had not done enough in the day, he would starve, as they where paying for their food in work
The provenance is useful because I can tell that the author is not from whitechapel, and was not used to the harsh conditions that he faced
The content is useful because i can see from the quote “Don’t touch it mate, the nurse sez it’s deadly" that the workers lives held no value among the owners
The provenance is useful because I can tell that the author was writing from his experiences in the casual ward of a workhouse
Explain one way in which the nature of prisons during the 1800s was different from the nature of prisons over the last century.
seperate system
prisoners kept apart, made to turn a crank repetedly
when they left cells they wore masks, no talking
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this was so no crimes where planned
cranks did nothing but move a counter to prove they had been working. punishment for those who did not do a certain amount of crank turns.
crank was stiff to make it harder to turn
4 Explain why there were changes to punishments in the period c1700-c1900.
Many saw bloody code as unfair
jury did not want to sentance death
multiple miscarriages of justice execution
Transportation was expensive, and prisoners were starting a better life in Australia, so prisons where used for efficiency
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5 “The main influence over crime and punishment across history has been the power of the church.”
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Persecution for religion was common
hersay=crime
trial by ordeal
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rulers would burn other religions (e.g. bloody mary)
modern crime is not religion based
religios persecution was not a major issue in the industrial era
more influence from economy (poor people would be punished, rich would often escape punishement), still used to some extent today
6 ‘"The main purpose of punishment during the period c1800-Present was to deter people from committing crime".
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